By Dana Rubinstein
Welcome Wagon: 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.
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From the Editor: 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.
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Welcome Wagon: Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo condos on Fourth Avenue looked good in renderings, but the reality is slighly different.
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Welcome Wagon: A look at five properties valued at just around the threshold of seven figures.
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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.
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By Robert Weinstein
Welcome Wagon: 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?
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