Eviction drama sparks standoff in Crown Heights

It’s no surprise that the end of New York’s eviction moratorium would usher in some landlord-tenant dramas. But the saga unfolding at a Crown Heights home signals a seismic shift in how renters are fighting displacement, one landlords fear may ruin their shot at finally getting nonpayers out. Last Friday, tenant advocates descended upon 964 Park Place, where renters Ida Robinson and daughter Sherease, along with the rest of their family, had been evicted earlier

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Investment sales bustle in trendy Soho, Brooklyn neighborhoods

Wall Street luminary Richard Jenrette brought small-cap stocks to the masses and made a fortune, some of which he poured into real estate restoration. A vestige of his legacy showed up in one of last week’s 11 investment sales between $10 million and $40 million, as his former home and office changed hands. The $20 million deal, for adjacent East 93rd Street properties, was among six mid-market sales in Manhattan recorded in the first week

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Bruce Eichner sues to save Crown Heights residential project

First, Ian Bruce Eichner couldn’t get through public review. Then, a judge slapped him down. Now he’s back in court, pursuing a Crown Heights project that might never happen. For four years, Eichner’s Continuum Company and Lincoln Equities Group have been trying to build a large residential development near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Even the ground beneath the project is slipping away, as the spice merchant who agreed to sell them the site wants out

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“Why are we living in such conditions?”: Crown Heights tenants withhold rent

Tenants are withholding rent in an effort to compel their absentee management company to make needed repairs at a Crown Heights apartment building, which they say has been overrun with rats, roaches, dangerous mold and flooding. Brooklyn Paper reports that tenants at 1392 Sterling Place staged a rent strike rally last week, the latest chapter in a battle that some residents have been waging for months. Holes in Doila George’s kitchen ceiling leak from flooding

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Continuum sues to stop rejection of towers by Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Continuum’s towers might never go up, but they’re not going down without a fight. Last week, the Continuum Company filed a lawsuit in state court to save a tower project it aims to build near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The developer, led by Ian Bruce Eichner, alleges the City Planning Commission has refused to consider a “reasonable alternative” to the proposed development on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, according to Curbed. The commission, taking its

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Carlyle Group scores $32M construction loan for Crown Heights storage facility

Here come the cubes. The Carlyle Group on Wednesday scored $31.8 million in construction loans from Santander Bank to build a self-storage facility in Crown Heights. The project will replace a Western Beef meat market that used to stand at 1223 East New York Avenue and has since been demolished. In Nov. 2020, a Carlyle subsidiary purchased the lot for $13 million from Shibber Khan’s Criterion Group, public records show. Just five months before the

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Hudson Companies buys 975 Nostrand Ave project site for $41M

A new developer has emerged at 975 Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights, where controversy plagued the previous owner’s plan to remove a neighborhood staple. Hudson Companies purchased the Brooklyn development site from Midwood Investment & Development for $41.5 million, the Commercial Observer reported. The developer is aiming to build a mixed-income housing on the site while allowing the Associated supermarket to stay for at least 15 years. Associated is expected to take 21,000 square feet

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Eric Adams advises against Continuum’s Crown Heights towers

The sun appears to be setting on the current iteration of Continuum’s proposed Crown Heights development. On Monday, Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and likely the city’s next mayor, officially recommended against pursuing the project in its current form. His decision comes after months of outcry from residents and the neighboring Brooklyn Botanic Garden, who say the project’s 39-story towers would block sunlight from reaching the garden’s rare flowers. The borough president’s recommendation is neither

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Churchill plans bankruptcy sale of Nassau Brewery project in Crown Heights

There’s trouble brewing in Crown Heights. A stalled project to redevelop the historic Nassau Brewing Company complex is now facing a bankruptcy sale, with one owner claiming the property has been mismanaged. Churchill Real Estate, the project’s managing partner, is planning a bankruptcy sale for the mixed-use development at 945 Bergen Street. A Chapter 11 filing on Friday by Nassau Brewing Company Landlord LLC, cited alleged mismanagement as a reason for restructuring and selling, according

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Shadow group backs towers that would shade Botanic Garden

It’s just an abandoned spice factory — a beat-up, vandalized, forgotten plant in Crown Heights that hasn’t made a strand of saffron in 20 years. Next door, barbed-wire walls frame an empty square of gravel. A yellowing smokestack soars above the stout brick buildings nearby. But in recent months, the decrepit property has become the locus of an intense rezoning battle, stirring up long-festering concerns in Central Brooklyn over gentrification, development and affordable housing. And

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