Brooklyn
New bike lanes in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick started raising property values within a year.
DNA Info
More than 20 percent of New York's smaller music venues have closed in the past 15 years. Although Brooklyn institution Barbes was recently saved by a crowdfunding campaign, its founder is pessimistic about the future of New York's independent arts.
Soft City
Two congressional Democrats, aided by press investigations, are connecting the dots between President Trump's real estate holdings and the Trump Administration's proposed budget.
The New York Times
The Gowanus Expressway is a big polluter and a traffic nightmare. Some see putting the road underground as a solution.
Crain's New York Business
Urban agriculture and market-rate multi-family housing developments could be a perfect match.
The Wall Street Journal
About 50 property owners in the trendiest of New York boroughs have launched a fledgling solar microgrid—sometimes called distributed or peer-to-peer generation. Someday, such arrangements could put a huge dent in the utility industry.
The New York Times
Traffic-plagued Kosciuszko will soon be replaced, and some commuters are celebrating its demise.
Gothamist
New York continues to grow, and as the city changes, so does its garbage.
The New York Times
As the MTA repairs Hurricane Sandy-related damage to train transit, advocates look for solution to a coming transit crunch.
Politico
Modular construction has been offered as a cheaper construction alternative and a possible solution for the affordable housing crisis. Now the building typology has a new showcase project in Brooklyn.
The Wall Street Journal
Despite its ambitious housing targets, the de Blasio Administration isn't willing to sacrifice more of its prime industrial spaces, and the jobs they bring, in the name of residential development.
Crain's New York Business
Political support is building for a plan to connect Brooklyn to Manhattan by high-speed gondola.
New York Daily News
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) is built atop of crumbling series of bridges. The city is expected to go in high gear on construction on Brooklyn's only interstate highway by the beginning of the next decade.
Politico New York
New Lab repurposes a gritty shipbuilding warehouse, giving manufacturing startups the support that software firms get from your typical incubator.
Curbed
A proposal by AECOM would transform the Red Hook waterfront with 25-45 million square feet of residential.
Crain's New York Business
About 6,500 apartments in 19 towers within 10 square blocks on Flatbush Avenue are expected to be available within two years, but don't expect rents to plunge. Renters should look for perks like one or more months of free rent.
The New York Times
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus was recently added to Mayor de Blasio’s sweeping zoning reform plan. But Gowanus also has plans of its own.
New York Times
The social vision of an architecture firm working in Bushwick, in Brooklyn, faces a familiar set of challenges.
New York Magazine
In the first half of the 20th century, the Olympic games actually had a medal competition for town planning.
Atlas Obscura
A design fix helps Brooklyn brownstones go green.
Wired
