Nov 30th 2010 1:15PM
Starting Dec. 3, singer Norah Jones -- along with all other New York City residents -- will have to help fight the bedbug infestation crawling through the city by following new rules enacted by the New York City Department of Sanitation. Jones, who recently was alleged to have brought bedbugs to the Brooklyn neighborhood... Continue Reading »
Oct 22nd 2010 12:43PM
It's not an exaggeration to say that the Brooklyn Flea -- an immense artisan market at the crossroads of Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- has transformed Saturday mornings in the neighborhood. "For one thing, I've been told we've changed the primary brunch day from Sunday to Saturday," jokes Eric Demby, who... Continue Reading »
Jul 2nd 2010 10:37AM
Brooklyn gained 660 apartments for low and middle-income New Yorkers on Tuesday, when the New York City Council approved the conversion of the former Domino Sugar refinery into a mixed-income community. While units for poor and middle-income renters are desperately needed in neighborhoods such as Williamsburg, located... Continue Reading »
Jun 23rd 2010 2:04PM
If you feel you got away too easily in the housing collapse, maybe you live in New York's Queens or on the outskirts of another big American city. Keith Jurow at the Real Estate Channel recently posted an interesting piece, teasingly titled "A Housing Price Collapse in Queens New York Is Almost Certain," in which he... Continue Reading »
Jun 17th 2010 5:02PM
OK, kids. Get out your pencils and show your work: When something new in a former industrial area costs less than half of something old in a classic neighborhood, will lots of people buy it? The Pencil Factory, so named because it used to be a pencil factory, consists of 93 one-bedroom (starting at $372,000) and... Continue Reading »
