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Plans Kick Off For 18-Story Tower At Prospect Heights McDonald's
The apartment building proposal, which has gotten a skeptical reaction froth community board, started the public review process on Monday.

The apartment building proposal, which has gotten a skeptical reaction froth community board, started the public review process on Monday.

Take your pick working from home in a large backyard or shared rooftop in this Dean Street townhome.

Two alternatives to controversial apartment towers planned for Franklin Avenue would offer shorter buildings with less affordable housing.
It still isn't cheap, but this $1.3 million home is nearly $90,000 less than it once was.
Nearly $2.7 million will get you 5,700 square feet on Dean Street.
Most of the new housing was centered around Northern Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, according to the Department of City Planning.
Nearly $340,000 will get you 395 square feet of space.
Average rent prices in Crown Heights have dropped significantly since January 2020, but they might be starting to creep up, a study shows.
Skepticism was high as a proposal for towers near the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens started its journey through the city's review process Monday.
Too many people in your apartment competing for the bathroom in the morning? Drop a few million and get four bathrooms instead.
Shimon Rosenfeld is accused of using millions from real estate investors, including for a Crown Heights project, for his own trading.
A new building on Bergen Street hit the affordable housing lottery this week.
Only four homes listed in the neighborhood cost less than $300,000. Here's a look at what the price-point will get you.
Three buildings in Central Brooklyn have hit the affordable housing lottery.
The St. Johns Place penthouse has sat on Realtor.com for more than a year.
These two Brooklyn neighborhoods were the only ones to crack a list of the 50 Most Affordable Neighborhoods in NYC this year.
The city took the next step this week toward transforming a long-vacant school site on Church Avenue into 130 units of affordable housing.
A $215,000 price tag will get you this one-bedroom spot on Eastern Parkway.
One-time tenants of 1214 Dean St., who were evicted this summer, hope to join a lawsuit the city is pursuing against their former landlords.
See where Prospect Heights fell on a list of the 50 most expensive neighborhoods in NYC.
A judge overturned a 2018 Franklin Ave. rezoning the same day that Mayor Bill de Blasio came out against another rezoning down the block.
New York City rents have fallen more this year than they did during the Great Recession, according to a StreetEasy study.
Jason Korn, who has tried to evict tenants on President Street, was named the city's worst private landlord for the second year in a row.
A temporary restraining order on the rezoning needed for the Franklin Avenue development was tossed by a judge, the Brooklyn Paper reported.
Two new developments hit the affordable housing lottery, with apartments up for grabs for those between $15,000 and $62,000 salaries.
A months-long rent strike brought on by the pandemic on President Street is heating up as the landlord threatens eviction, Curbed reports.
Two Brooklyn buildings, including one with 58 senior residences, have joined the city's affordable housing lottery.
Neighbors are worried about a city housing project that brings dozens of units to an area a block from the Atlantic Yards mega-development.
A workshop next week will ask for ideas about two city-owned properties, on Bergen and Dean streets, that are slated for affordable housing.
A temporary restraining order on the rezoning that is needed for the controversial Franklin Avenue development was granted this week.
In New York City, even the tiniest apartments come with big price tags. Crown Heights' smallest unit gives 433 square feet for nearly $500K.
Spikes in demand for the last three months show the housing market is bouncing back from pandemic levels, the Wall Street Journal reports.
A cool $2.85 million will get you giant master bedroom and a 70-foot patio.
The pandemic has caused real estate prices to fluctuate around New York City. Here's an example of what $2,000 can get you in Crown Heights.
Prices that had stayed steady through the COVID-19 crisis are finally dropping, but not in all neighborhoods, according to a Curbed report.
Plans for a 10-story building on Bedford Avenue and a five-story building on Utica Avenue were recently filed with the city, records show.
A luxury apartment building on Ashland Place trying to fill vacancies has applications open for those with "middle-incomes."
Several neighborhoods in Brooklyn saw increased demand from renters even as the coronavirus plunged New York City's housing market.
Rents for two buildings in Prospect Heights go for as low as $700 up to nearly $4,000 a month, according to the lottery listing.
"Most of the people cannot pay rent,” said one out-of-work Crown Heights tenant facing an April 1 payment she cannot make.