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Big Real Estate Could Not Knock Down the Downtown Brooklyn Skyscraper District
Here to stay. (Getty) Downtown Brooklyn developers and cooperators, with a hefty helping hand from the real estate lobby, threw everything they could at the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District, a...
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Goodbye Parking Garages: Proposal Aims To Reduce Off-Street Parking...
Fingers crossed: off-street parking requirements might be reduced in Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Department of City Planning) There’s a reason why public transportation exists: so that people don’t have...
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Market Ready: Landmarks Commission Approves Brooklyn Municipal Building...
Big government meets big business. Muni money. The Landmarks Preservation Commission has been on the defensive of late, fighting off claims from the real estate industry that it hinders development...
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General Brooklyn: Baghdad Big Tucker Reed Tackles Downtown, Giving Businesses...
The sun rises over Downtown Brooklyn. (DBP) At the ready. (Andrew Hill/OSC) When Tucker Reed finally stepped up to the lectern inside the new BAM Fisher Building on a Thursday morning at the end of...
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Downtown Brooklyn Looking Up: At Least Eight New Skyscrapers on the Rise
Dreams of our fathers: an early rendering from when Downtown Brooklyn was rezoned, less than a year ago. Earlier this week, we profiled Tucker Reed, the recently enthroned director of the Downtown...
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Retire in Downtown Brooklyn! Marty Markowitz Makes Somewhat Convincing Pitch...
Brooklyn seniors get a free boat ride courtesy of the commission on aging. (www.nysenate.gov) Sure, it lacks the slow pace of life and comfortable weather of Miami or Scottsdale, but at least Brooklyn...
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He’s Not Running, But John Catsimatidis Wonders If Christine Quinn Is ‘Tough...
V is for vegetables, not victory, in 2013. (TRD) John Catsimatidis sat down with The Real Deal to talk about just how great Downtown Brooklyn is (who knew?!) and while that topic dominates the...
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For the past six years, thousands of people a day have descended on a 150-foot long stretch of black top across from Borough Hall. There, nestled among planters and folding chair, Brooklynites and...
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Tech in Downtown Brooklyn ‘Inevitable,’ Despite Firms’ Reluctance
Happening, or over-hyped? To hear politicians like City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, or council members Steve Levin and Letitia James tell it, Downtown...
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$90 M. Hotel Worker Health Center Coming to Downtown Brooklyn
Parking today, healthcare tomorrow. (Photo courtesy Property Shark.) From the BAM Cultural District to Williamsburg, Brooklyn is undergoing a hotel boom. And pretty soon, all of those workers—or at...
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Anthony Weiner Casually Comes Out Against Minimum Parking Requirements
The corner of Third and Bergen in Boerum Hill will be blighted by a ground-level parking garage, thanks to outer borough minimum parking requirements. It's not in his policy book, and you might not...
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