Having weathered some local opposition, a condo project in development on the site of a former public library in Brooklyn Heights has taken the next major step forward. Curbed reported that sales were recently launched for One C…
Brooklyn’s residential co-op and condominium market ended 2018 on a less-than-positive note, a change from the more stable picture it displayed in 2017, according to Corcoran’s 2018 fourth quarter report. “Brooklyn ended 2018 by following…
Second of a two-part series; read part one here . To the major relief of commuters who normally travel between Brooklyn and Manhattan via the L subway, a potential nightmare was averted when Gov. Andrew Cuomo surprisingly earlier this …
Manhattan’s residential co-op and condominium market ended 2018 on a down note, a change from the more stable picture it displayed in 2017, according to Corcoran’s 2018 fourth quarter report. “Market-wide closed sales declined as potentia…
Move over Wiliamsburg, Park Slope, and the East Village. To ring in the new year, the New York Post published a list of the current “hottest” New York City neighborhoods , per the app Localize.city, which analyzes real estate devel…
First of a two-part series; read part two here . For the 225,000 commuters who normally take the L train from Brooklyn to Manhattan, April 27, 2019 would have been doomsday. On that date, the MTA was supposed to have completely shut dow…
Pests - whether they be of the rodent or insect variety - are gross. They're also potential disease vectors, particularly for the very young, the elderly, or for residents with allergies and other immune concerns. Keeping your building or a…
In the last couple of months, The Cooperator has been covering the recent issues surrounding Housing Development Fund Corporation (HDFC) cooperatives. Among those areas of concern include co-op buildings that were threatened with forecl…
Entertainment journalists have long claimed that the rich and famous are just like “us” (plebs) because they do things like wear sweatpants or walk their dogs. Well, it turns out that there is at least a third commonality between the showbi…
The Brooklyn and Queens residential markets both saw a slight rise in median sales price but accompanied by falling sales numbers during the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Douglas Elliman in its latest quarterly reports for th…