Bushwick’s Shuttered Brooklyn Mirage Was Structurally Unsound, DOB Says
by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper As its failure to open sent owner Avant Gardner into bankruptcy...
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City Issues Vacate Order for Bushwick Church Turned Thrift Store Due to Crumbling Roof
The city has placed a full vacate order on the large 1890s Romanesque Revival church on the corner o...
From the Forum: Closing Out a Job When the Architect Isn’t Responding
A homeowner's renovation was finished more than five years ago, but the architect never completed th...
DOB Files Suit Over Crown Heights Sidewalk Shed in Place for a Decade
By Jada Camille, Brooklyn Paper The Department of Buildings is taking the property owners of a Cr...
A Scaffolding Contractor Is in Court for Park Slope Collapse That Left Woman With Brain Injury
A well-connected contractor was indicted Friday by Brooklyn prosecutors on charges related to a near...
Fines, But No Findings Yet for Owner or DOB in Year-Ago Carroll Gardens Building Collapse
While New Yorkers wonder if last week’s deadly condominium collapse in Florida might have been pre...
Brownstone Boys: Our Halloween Treat, Final Inspections!
Editor’s note: Welcome to the 49th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary....
What To Know About Buying an SRO
In New York City, single room occupancies are almost as much of a local institution as Katz's pastra...
Mystery Deepens Around Murdered Landlord’s Unstable ‘Burg Building
Strange real estate happenings in Williamsburg: A contractor has discovered the Department of Buil...
Question: Department of Buildings Reform Needed for Homeowners in Brooklyn?
As any Brooklyn homeowner set on a major renovation knows, the City's Department of Buildings perm...
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