The real-estate magazine for the booming borough http://www.brooklynboom.com en-us Copyright 2008 Brooklyn Boom Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:09 EDT  Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Gersh Kuntzman ‘Gutsy’ developers are safe with their Meier-designed On Prospect Park. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_norisk_approach.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_norisk_approach.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Gersh Kuntzman Towers are rising up all over the borough — and here are the bird’s-eye views. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_youre_the_tops.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_youre_the_tops.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Michael McLaughlin If you liked what you saw in Bedford-Stuyvesant three or four years ago but decided against buying a brownstone there because you couldn’t keep up with the prices, it’s time to hop the A train — and bring your bargaining skills. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_bedfordstuyvesant_after.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_bedfordstuyvesant_after.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Adam Rathe Danny Simmons’s home is a museum. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_maximalist_of.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_maximalist_of.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST Compiled by Yvonne Juris They say that first impressions are lasting impressions. So, if that’s true, why would you want a standard-issue tin mailbox nailed to the side of your house? One of the easiest ways of sprucing up your entryway — and making a good first impression on guests — is to get a spiffy letterbox. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_hey_mr_postman.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_hey_mr_postman.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:16:28 EDT By Nicole Davis Through the skeleton of steel girders and piles of wood, Derek Denckla clearly sees the future of 361 Manhattan Ave. in Williamsburg. “It’s the perfect opera house,” he says, pointing out the reception area for the non-profit “Center for Performance Research,” an arts space built into the ground floor. “The perfect space to rehearse for performances at BAM’s Harvey Theater.” http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_in_it_for_the_green.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_in_it_for_the_green.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Dana Rubinstein Who needs Prospect Park? The lucky buyers of this $2-million building, which sold the day it went on the market despite a less-than-prime South Slope location, will have all the nature they could possibly want in their own backyard. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_sale_of_the_month.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_sale_of_the_month.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Dana Rubinstein Two erstwhile Brooklyn architects turned a run-down frame house on the border of Park Slope and Sunset Park into one of the borough’s funkiest residential buildings. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_old_meets_new.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_old_meets_new.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:44:23 EDT Welcome to the Brooklyn boom. The rest of the nation may be going through a real-estate meltdown, but Brooklyn’s housing market remains strong and surprisingly resilient. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_letter_from_the_editor.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_letter_from_the_editor.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:03:02 EDT Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo condos on Fourth Avenue looked good in renderings, but the reality is slighly different. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_rendering_vs_reality.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_rendering_vs_reality.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST A look at five properties valued at just around the threshold of seven figures. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_what_does_1_million_buy.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_what_does_1_million_buy.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Gersh Kuntzman The epicenter of the Brooklyn boom is Downtown Brooklyn. In the three square-miles from the Manhattan Bridge to the proposed Atlantic Yards project just beyond Downtown’s southern border, more than 57 developments are already going up or on the drawing board — a total of $9 billion in private investment. http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_insider_joe_chan.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_the_insider_joe_chan.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Robert Weinstein It’s the neighborhood no one knows what to call. Is the triangular area southeast of the Manhattan Bridge “Flattery,” meaning “Flatbush and Tillary,” as local real-estate broker Paul Murphy calls it? http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_flattery_will_get_you.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_flattery_will_get_you.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:29:47 EST By Harry Cheadle I know I won’t get any sympathy by saying this, but sometimes it’s tough to be a guy who does not pay rent. I found this out last summer, when I was lucky enough to win a campus housing lottery that got me a room on the top floor of the president’s house on the leafy Pratt Institute campus in Clinton Hill. (The president, by the way, was out of town.) http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_i_live_rent_free.html http://www.brooklynboom.com/stories/1/1/01_01_i_live_rent_free.html