Brooklyn Real Estate Round-Up for Tuesday, April 19

Photo by Jason Ippolito

BROOKLYN, NY — Last week was a big one for openings, closings, historic landmarkings and other real-estate happenings around the borough. Here's what you need to know.

• Buffalo's Famous will start serving up "authentic" Buffalo-style chicken wings and other Western New York delicacies in Ditmas Park this May (Ditmas Park Corner)

• The publishers and artists at e-flux wants to open an "artist cafe and bar" in Clinton Hill (Fort Greene Focus)

• By Brooklyn, which sells strictly Brooklyn-made goods, is closing this month in Gowanus (DNAinfo)

• Two buildings in Green-Wood Cemetery received landmark status (Patch)

• Brooklyn's notorious Mast Brothers are expanding their local empire and with a new "chocolate brewery" in the Navy Yard (Brownstoner)

• In DUMBO, the P.S. Bookshop plans to shut its doors (DNAinfo)

• The iconic Pepsi sign on the Queens waterfront is now officially a city landmark (Patch)

• MAC Cosmetics plans to open a new branch in Boerum Hill (DNAinfo)

• The Jahovah's Witnesses are looking to make a cool $700 million in the high-profile sale of their Brooklyn Heights headquarters (Brooklyn Eagle)

• Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting a brand-new marina (Brownstoner)

• Dassara Ramen just closed its Carroll Gardens restaurant (DNAinfo)

• The Park Slope Historic District got a lot larger last week (Patch)

• You can now buy "rabbit in a jar," a French delicacy, at Freek's Mill in Gowanus (DNAinfo)

• The city's rezoning plan for East New York continues making its way through City Council (DNAinfo)

• The MTA may be looking to shut down the L Train for repairs in 2019 (Gothamist), but before the plan is finalized, you'll have a chance to publicly yell at MTA officials about it (Patch)