By Ximena Del Cerro, Brooklyn Paper
As New York City faces an ongoing housing crisis, a parking lot that sits in Prospect Heights -- keeping a handful of cars owned by the city off the street -- will become a housing development for homeless and low-income seniors.
The city’s Department of Housing… Read More >
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For co-op hunters up for a project, this proposed combination of two units in a fine 19th century Prospect Heights flats building offers high ceilings, good light, and a spacious floor plan. The two apartments are located in the front of the top story of 673 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect… Read More >
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This two-bedroom in an 1880s brownstone in the Prospect Heights Historic District has a large roof deck, charming historic details, and light coming in through windows on three sides. It's perched just above a ground-floor restaurant in a corner building at 150 St. Marks Avenue.
The oriel window under a… Read More >
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While the monthly maintenance is not inconsiderable, this Prospect Heights Classic Six has room to spread out, elegant details, and windows on three sides for good light. The location is prime, the top floor of 50 Plaza Street East overlooking Grand Army Plaza.
Designed by architects Sugarman and Berger, the building… Read More >
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Charming touches in this pocket-size Prospect Heights studio include parquet, picture-frame moldings, and a penny-tile floor in the kitchen. Located in the historic district, it's one of many similar units in the six-story brick elevator building at 269 Prospect Place.
The certificate of occupancy shows the building debuted in 1928 with 29… Read More >
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By Ximena Del Cerro, Brooklyn Paper
Twenty years later, it’s about to be someone else’s problem.
Two decades since the ambitious Atlantic Yards project was first announced, the remaining rights to the $6 billion plan to redevelop 26 acres in Prospect Heights will be auctioned off in less than a month —… Read More >
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By Adam Daly, Brooklyn Paper
Prospect Heights residents are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to release the results of a community input survey on the Underhill Avenue safety redesign, which was carried out in November and stalled the near-completed project.
The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council penned a letter to the Adams… Read More >
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With three bedrooms and a den, this is one of the largest apartments we've seen for sale at Prospect Heights' P.S. 9 Annex. It also has high ceilings, extra tall windows, interesting moldings, and wood floors.
It's located on the second floor of 279 Sterling Place, a striking Romanesque Revival red-brick… Read More >
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The issues that brought the owners of a vintage row house to Sarah Jacoby, a Long Island City-based architect who has renovated many a Brooklyn townhouse since establishing her firm in 2014, were "not that sexy," as… Read More >
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By Adam Daly, Brooklyn Paper
The Department of Transportation announced Wednesday night that it has been given the green light to move forward with finishing the long-stalled safety redesign of Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights.
Brought to a halt near-completion last September, the DOT project to turn the largely residential Prospect Heights… Read More >
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