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Clinton Hill

By Daniel Edward Rosen 10/25/11 9:59am

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Mr. Riney, a navigator of Brooklyn's shifting landscape.

The Multifamily Guy

To look at the buildings neighboring it, 567 Vanderbilt Avenue is a typical four-story, mixed-use apartment building in Brooklyn. From the bricks it was built with to the upwardly mobile professionals and strollers it presumably houses, the structure is nearly identical to the other assets in that corner of Prospect Heights.

With a recent shift on the ground—characterized by relatively new restaurants like James, Cornelius and, inevitably, the Vanderbilt—sales prices in the neighborhood are rising.

But over on Vanderbilt Avenue in particular, where trendy bars and cafés pop up each week, prices are absolutely surging, in part because of Nostradamus-like predictions of basketball fans flooding the zone once the Nets start playing inside the proposed Atlantic Yards arena and, ultimately, exiting en masse from doors leading directly to the street.

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By Chloe Malle 11/11/09 5:46pm

Your Open House: Cookie Monster Blue In the Jenga-Like Maze

The goal was simple: find an apartment in leafy Fort Greene for under half a million dollars. It seemed like a no-brainer.

I searched The New York Times open house listings for under $500,000 in Fort Greene. Dozens of options presented themselves, many of them located on Clinton Avenue. Some were different apartments at the same Read More

By Tom Acitelli 3/26/07 12:00am

Brownstoner: It’s Me!

Jonathan Butler, a 37-year-old Upper East Side native and Princeton graduate, has been blogging about Brooklyn real estate under the moniker Brownstoner for more than two years. He has, until now, kept his identity a secret, except to a tiny handful, including his wife Kira. In mid-February, Mr. Butler quit his mid-level job at a Read More

By Staff 12/18/06 4:19pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Monday

  • What Chelsea really needs is a nice tall condo. Luckily, construction has begun on Chelsea Stratus, "what will be the neighborhood's tallest building." The 40-story condo on Sixth Avenue between 24th and 25th streets will have a billiard room, media lounge, and a rooftop terrace dog run. It was designed by Lucifer. [Real Deal]
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By Staff 8/18/06 1:33pm

Rally in Brooklyn

Via Gowanus Lounge, on Sunday there will be a rally to protest yet another out-of-scale development in Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy. Not only are the developers at 335-345 Greene Avenue using the oft-abused "community facilities" floor-area-ratio boost, it appears they're not exactly following safety guidelines: The demo, being done by the fine folks at MMG Design, Read More

By Staff 8/01/06 2:01pm

Curvy Glass Condos in Clinton Hill

An oasis of luxury? Two lucky Clinton Hill warehouses are about to turn into two six-story condos (plus a 60-foot inner courtyard, plus a shiny pool.) The curvy Vanderbilt Apartments, designed by Meltzer/Mandl Architects, will be made of clear and "colored spandrel glass." According to the designers, all this luxurious shine will Read More

By Staff 12:05pm

Clinton Hill Apartments Go Green

"Clinton Hill Apartments' Microturbines Cogenerate Electricity," a press release cryptically alerted us this morning. "You don't know what that means?" asked Clinton Hill Apartments owner Ed Friedman. "I'm embarrassed for you" David Ahrens, director of Brooklyn's Energy Spectrum, was more helpful: "Microturbines, basically like a small little jet engine, fire from natural gas. They simultaneously Read More

By Gabriel Sherman 5/10/04 12:00am

Lachlan’s Double-Play

Lachlan Murdoch, News Corp.'s spiky-haired scion and publisher of the New York Post , has sold the Soho loft at 285 Lafayette Street that he recently left while waiting out renovations at his new and eccentric Nolita mansion.

The 32-year-old got $7.5 million for his 3,290-square-foot loft in one of Soho's most notoriously star-studded addresses, city Read More