Big Goings-On At The Maynard Coops This Summer Summer 2010 Free Homebuyer Classes Sponsored by Citi and PACC Citibank and the Pratt Area Community Council will be conducting free seminars to teach the basics of buying a home on a variety of dates this summer. All of these FREE classes will...

The rent is too damn high guy is at it again … after his failed attempt at the NYC mayorship, this time around his too high-ness is aiming even higher – governor.   As if a direct indictment on Franklin Avenue landlords, he was posted in front of the Franklin Avenue subway station earlier...

“Coming Soon Ribs & Steakhouse” … is what a new sign on a storefront on Nostrand Avenue between Atlantic and Pacific Streets in Crown Heights reads. Thanks to an email from regular NP reader, Lee, we decided to do a little poking around about this place. When we looked in, they...

Okay – the sad news is that that Nature’s Organic – the organic store on Nostrand that’s been around since at least 2007 – has a “for rent” sign up.  But the good news is that there is now an opportunity for a visionary entrepreneur to stake claim in one of...

Those who follow the popular Brooklyn website, Brownstoner, know that one of the best neighborhood historians to grace the blog is a local resident, Suzanne Spellen, who writes under the pen name “Montrose Morris” (a reference to  a prolific Brooklyn architect).  Well we just found that that “Montrose”...

The media is all a buzz … from Brownstoner, to Real Deal, to Brooklyn Eagle – that Best Western has opened in Crown Heights on Atlantic Avenue  (of course, we’ve been blogging about this for a while now … but you’ll excuse our use of an old picture for this blog post,...

Passed by this building on Eastern Parkway a few months ago, and noticed it was completely empty.  Hmm … I wonder how that happened. Clearly this building should be rent stabilized since it has at least 6 units (16 to be exact). You’d figure that someone would still be living there. There’s...

Got House? April’s real estate activity in Crown Heights says more of you do. Before the Home Buyer Tax Credit expired at midnight on April 3oth, Crown Heights saw a spike in residential property sales. As of May 15th, Trulia reported that there were 21 more homes sold in the last 90 days compared...

Last year we profiled Crown Street between Bedford and Rogers which placed third in the fifteenth annual Greenest Black in Brooklyn competition.  Hopefully this year other BK nabes will be green with envy at Crown Heights’ success in the 16th annual competition.  In order for that to happen,...

There are homebuying seminars, and then there are homebuying seminars.   Normally, a seminar has some speakers, some pamphlets and maybe if you’re lucky … some cookies. But we just got notice about a seminar for the Maynard Coops which sounds quite grand – in addition to guest speakers...