Potential Opportunities
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Walking Tour Rescheduled: Sign Up Now
The storm of the decade put a damper–literally–on our plans to tour prospective buyers and nyc-culture buffs through their neighborhood-to-be, but we’ve rescheduled the North Brooklyn Heights walking tour for May 2. This is not to be confused with a mobile history lesson. Think of the MyHome, Brooklyn events as house tours showcasing your potential [...]
Opportunity of the Day: 72 Poplar Street
72 Poplar has many possibilities. Our aim would be to create studio, one- and two-bedroom units in this prime location in Brooklyn Heights. It has a pretty interesting history, having once served as the internal affairs department for the New York City police. Since then, it’s been fully gutted and is now vacant. We want [...]
A (Virtual) Walk Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
Michael Van Valkenburgh, a landscape designer and one of the forces behind the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, was the featured guest at the 100th annual meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association. His presentation detailed Brooklyn Bridge Park as it is now, and as it shall be someday, and the BHA captured his offerings on [...]
Opportunity of the Day: 183 Columbia Heights
183 Columbia Heights is a rare find: a beautiful, well-maintained building that’s perfectly positioned for reinvention. One of the things we like about it is its flexibility: the layout can be tweaked to an owner’s delight. We’re talking about spacious units, with three bedrooms and two baths, in what is arguably Brooklyn’s most desirable neighborhood. [...]
Link Love
Living In: Vinegar Hill (NY Times) Curious About House’s History? (BHB) Program Pays Homeowners to Sell Low (NY Times) Scarano’s Bigger Sin? (Brownstoner) Brooklyn Bridge Park Watch: Pier 1 (Curbed)
Gowanus Canal Gets Superfund Status
The Gowanus Canal, a 1.8-mile waterway separating some of Brooklyn’s most beautiful neighborhoods, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, received a dubious honor last week: The EPA declared it a Superfund site, marking the green and murky body of water as officially toxic. For some, the designation is a boon; it means federal clean-up funds [...]
What the Watchtower Will Leave Behind
Last week’s big Brooklyn news was a long time coming: the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watchtower group, which has owned a significant amount of property in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO since 1909, is relocating its headquarters to Warwick, N.Y., upstate in Orange County. They’re not unloading their entire portfolio, they told the Brooklyn Eagle. “We have eight [...]
Opportunity of the Day: 259 Pacific
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