Brooklyn Real Estate Round-Up for Monday, May 9

Pictured: Ta-Nehisi Coates' new home in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Photo courtesy of Corcoran

BROOKLYN, NY — Here are some of the biggest real-estate stories — openings, closings, sales, proposals, etc. — you may have missed in your Brooklyn neighborhood last week.

Brooklyn Heights-DUMBO

• The Jehovah’s Witnesses sold a Brooklyn Heights property they owned for a staggering $105 million (Brooklyn Eagle)

• New renderings were released for the proposed “Brooklyn Strand,” a 40-acre project that would tie Downtown Brooklyn to the waterfront via “parks, plazas, and greenways” (Gothamist)

Bushwick

• The “urban tiki” experience at the neighborhood's new Dromedary Bar has been a hit (Bushwick Daily)

Gowanus-Red Hook

• NYC's Fairway gourmet grocery chain filed for bankruptcy, but its supermarkets are still serving customers (Patch)

Park Slope

• Starting this month, neighborhood drone hobbyists will have a new place to go shopping (DNAinfo)

• Five seniors are fighting to keep the Prospect Park Residence, where they live, from being turned into condos (Associated Press)

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

• Journalist, author and "genius" Ta-Nehisi Coates just bought a gorgeous neighborhood brownstone (Patch)

Sunset Park

• Locals tussled with city officials over plans for the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a new watefront bike path, and the Brooklyn Queens Connector, a new waterfront streetcar (Patch)

Williamsburg-Greenpoint

• Hail Mary, a 1920’s-style diner, will be opening in Greenpoint this month (DNAinfo)

• The MTA outlined two options being considered for 2019’s L train repair project (Patch)

• A state senator came out against the idea of moving Rikers Island inmates to an old superfund site in Greenpoint (Patch)

Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the 160-year-old Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, located near Madison Square Park, was tragically gutted by a fire (Patch)