Housing
Curbed.com: Renter’s Guide to the Ever-Changing Downtown Brooklyn
When traveling across the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn, the skyline is radically higher than it was just five years ago. That imposing skyline comes at a high cost for renters. This depressing guide -unless you can afford it- comes courtesy of Curbed.com: Over the last decade, Downtown Brooklyn has really come into its own as a residential neighborhood. More...
BBN Exclusive: ‘Jail Playground’ Found at BK Public Housing Property. Design Changed.
(Originally published on March 21, 2010) There is no kind, gentle, diplomatic way to describe the offense against a community by this ‘Jail Playground’ on a New York City Housing Authority property, located More...
Bed-Stuy Building Owners ‘Warehousing Property’ Until Market Rebounds
(Photo: Brooklyn Ink) Vacant Lefferts Hotel in Bed-Stuy Advocates for the homeless have found that Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn “has the highest density per square mile of vacant property buildings and lots” More...
Judge: NYC City Housing Plan Boosts Segregation
A state judge has ruled that a planned Brooklyn housing development would violate federal law and increase segregation in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Amsterdam News reports that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is planning to appeal More...
Families Fight Banks for Loan Modifications
(Long Island WINS) Nearly two dozen residents and activists marched on January 7 through a Central Islip neighborhood hit hard by foreclosures, calling for local politicians to support residents instead of big banks. Via More...
