Last Week in Brooklyn Openings and Closings

BROOKLYN, NY — It's Monday morning, which means it's time to review some of the Brooklyn openings, closings, and real estate-related stories that made headlines last week:

Bed-Stuy

• Hart's, a new Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, opened late last month on Franklin Avenue (Patch)

Bushwick

• A newly completed Stanhope Street residential building is a living testament to the MTA's unique design aesthetic (Patch)

Crown Heights

• Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo is clashing with state and federal officials over the future of the Bedford Union Armory (Patch)

Ditmas Park

• Infinity Properties has a new building set to premier on East 18th Street — but what will it look like? (Patch)

Fort Greene

• Brooklyn's second Apple Store is slated to move into a 12,000 square foot space at 300 Ashland Pl. (Patch)

Greenpoint

• A new affordable development near the intersection of the East River and Newtown Creek is accepting lottery applications for its 102 apartments until Dec. 29 (Patch)

Gowanus

• The neighborhood's former art studio safe house is being redeveloped into a 200,000 square foot high-end office complex (Patch)

Park Slope

• The Pavilion Theater has slung its last bag of popcorn and rolled its last film — until its rebirth next year (Patch)
• Community activists say they've secured a 22,000 square foot supermarket at the site of the 5th Avenue Key Food, assuming the city provides developer Avery Hall Investments with the incentives it needs to complete its planned redevelopment of the site (Patch)

Red Hook

• Local Red Hook residents are organizing so they can deliver demands to the area's major developers, starting with Thor Equities (Patch)

Sunset Park

• The neighborhood's proposed affordable housing/library project received a public hearing last week, and its proponents subsequently addressed some remaining community questions (Patch)

Williamsburg

• Parents of Success Academy Charter School students are battling the mayor's office over the permanent placement of two middle schools in the network (Patch)
• Here's a way to stay in an East Williamsburg Airbnb for $13 per night, and all it takes is a willingness to be part of a performance art piece (Patch)

And the city rolled out a list of maps showing possible routes for the proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (Patch)

Pictured at top: Hart's in Bed-Stuy. Photo by Jason Nuckolls