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Luxury 85-Unit Rental Coming To Boerum Hill @ 316 Bergen Street

By on May 4, 2012 in Boerum Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Real Estate

A new 85-unit luxury rental development is coming to Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, one block from the border of Park Slope. Partners the Naftali Group and AEW Capital Management recently closed on a 90,000-square-foot site at 316 Bergen Street, at the corner of Third Avenue for $6.7 million. The eight-story building—with 45 residential parking spaces on the ground level—will include an attended lobby, health club, resident lounge, courtyard, storage and a roof deck with cabanas, sunbeds, a grill and dining area, with 360-degree views of Brooklyn and Manhattan, according to building reps.

The development is also in the vicinity of a Whole Foods market recently approved at Third Street and Third Avenue, next to the Gowanus Canal; and within walking distance to the 585-acre Prospect Park Continue Reading →

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Cobble Hill Has Two Of The 10 Most Expensive Blocks In Brooklyn

By on March 30, 2012 in Cobble Hill, Real Estate

The Epoch Times has been scouring New York City for its “most expensive blocks,” based on median sale prices with at least three home sales over the last two years. Research covers January 2010 to December 2011. In Brooklyn, the newspaper’s March 27 survey comes up with three Park Slope blocks in the top 10, one each in Midwood, Carroll Gardens, Manhattan Beach, Homecrest and Brooklyn Heights… and two in Cobble Hill. Continue Reading →

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Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick Move To Cobble Hill Border?

By on March 24, 2012 in Celebrity Residents, Cobble Hill, Real Estate

Norah Jones, meet your new neighbors: Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick are moving into a pair of townhouses in south Brooklyn Heights on the Cobble Hill border on State Street near Sidney Place. The New York Daily News‘ real estate guru Jason Sheftell reported late Friday that the family is closing in on a contract, after purchasing a Manhattan townhouse on East 10th St. townhouse two years ago that they never moved into.

The couple currently resides in a townhome in the West Village on Charles Street, near West Fourth Street, with their son James Wilkie, 9, and twin daughters Marion and Tabitha, almost 3. A source told the Daily News, “They loved the West Village but wanted something more private, laid-back and discreet.” Continue Reading →

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Halstead Property Expands Presence In Cobble Hill: New Court Street Locale

By on March 22, 2012 in Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Real Estate

Halstead Property has purchased two smaller firms in Cobble Hill and Park Slope, where it is expanding its Brooklyn business, according to The Real Deal. With the purchase of Cobble Heights Realty and Heights Berkeley Realty, Halstead now has five storefront offices in Brooklyn.

The new outposts “secure us two wonderful locations,” Trish Martin, Brooklyn director of sales for Halstead told the real estate pub, saying that Halstead has quickly outgrown its other Cobble Hill location, at 162 Court Street. The new office in Cobble Hill will be located at 206 Court Street, between Wyckoff and Warren streets. Continue Reading →

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Residential Brokerage Aptsandlofts.com Joins Court Street Corridor

By on March 16, 2012 in Cobble Hill, Real Estate, Uncategorized

Residential brokerage Aptsandlofts.com is opening a storefront in Cobble Hill, its first outside of its Williamsburg, Brooklyn base. The 2,000-square-foot retailer will launch by the end of June at 236 Court Street, says Crain’s New York Business.

Aptsandlofts.com’s founder and president David Maundrell says that the new office is part of his plan to double the size of the 45-agent firm, with room in the Cobble Hill location for around 40 agents. Continue Reading →

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Cobble Hill’s 118 Congress Street Gobbled Up By Developer JMH

By on March 16, 2012 in Cobble Hill, Real Estate

New York-based JMH Development—known in Brooklyn for the successful conversion of a warehouse at 184 Kent Street in Williamsburg to a 340-unit rental building—has spent $6.6 million for a posse of properties in Cobble Hill.

Brownstoner reports that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn sold its parcel at 118 Congress Street, between Hicks and Henry, comprising a string of buildings totaling 18,001 square feet. Repeated inquiries to JMH by Brownstoner about their intentions for the properties weren’t returned. As well, there is no DOB filing yet. The properties are part of the Cobble Hill Historic District. Continue Reading →

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Come See Inside Brooklyn’s “Big House”

By on January 27, 2012 in Boerum Hill, Crime, Events, Real Estate

Admit it: you’ve long itched to take a tour inside that magnificent building at 275 Atlantic Avenue, between Boerum Place and Smith Street. Well, now you can do it next Saturday, February 4, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and it’s absolutely free. (Update: Chuck Taylor took the tour. Read his observations on BHB.) The good news is brought to us by Community Board 2:

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) invites the community to attend an open house at the Brooklyn Detention Complex, more commonly known at the Brooklyn House of Detention or the “House of D’.”
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Cobble Hill Singer-Songwriter Moves on Up to… Boerum Hill

By on November 3, 2011 in Celebrity Residents, Real Estate

The NY Post talks apartment hunting with singer-songwriter Caithlin De Marrais (of Rainer Maria fame) who recently moved to Boerum Hill: Continue Reading →

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Proximity to the PJs Doesn’t Hurt Boerum Hill Block

By on October 24, 2011 in Real Estate

The New York Times looks at one Boerum Hill block that seems to defy real estate market trends:

NY Times: Warren Street between Bond and Nevins offers many of the things well-off buyers seek in brownstone Brooklyn: a pastoral, leafy feel; long rows of 19th-century town houses; proximity to transportation and charming little restaurants; young families on the block.

But the block also has something that those buyers have traditionally seemed to avoid: two large public housing projects that stand tall at either end, to many New Yorkers enduring symbols of danger, social dysfunction and blight. The map showing the neighborhood on the Web site of the Boerum Hill Association — a group dedicated to preserving and enhancing “the unique qualities of our neighborhood” — includes Warren Street but runs up and around to Wyckoff at points to cut the projects out.

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“Amity Street Horror” Buyers Face LPC Review of Proposed Changes

By on March 15, 2011 in Landmark Preservation, News, Real Estate

As we noted before, the buyers of 110 Amity Street, the former LICH Lamm Institute building, have proposed some modifications to the structure in order to convert it to three luxury residences. These proposals are now up for review by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Continue Reading →

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