Demolition of Troubled Brooklyn Mirage to Proceed Amidst Bankruptcy Battle
by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper Full demolition of the Brooklyn Mirage has been approved and is...
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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...
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...
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