New Prospect Heights condos

The Aguayo Group is the broker for these new huge condo units at 268-270 St. Marks Avenue between Vanderbilt and Underhill in Prospect Heights. Square footages range from 1,433 to 2,338 square feet. Apartments are a  mix of 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms.

Interesting to see developers now building 4 bedroom apartments in Prospect Heights. This should go over real well, especially since it's becoming a family-friendly neighborhood.

618 Washington lights up

Interesting marketing from the Hello Living folks at 618 Washington. Check out the spotlighted terrace in one corner unit.

New cigar bar in Prospect Heights/Crown Heights area

A cigar bar is opening up on Washington Avenue between Dean and Pacific. Go figure. Here's the brooklynian link.

Prospect Heights condos reaching into $700psf territory

Prospect Heights is leading the post-economic-crisis Brooklyn real estate boom in a huge way, especially with these Washington Condo sales.

Duplex B3J sold for $995K in late 2012
A three bedroom sold for $914K, above asking.
Two more units are in contract, one listed at $789K and another listed at $860K, after being in contract for only three weeks.

Here are some streeteasy stats.

Has this homeowner gotten sick of Barclays Center?

Here's the chance to live right across from the Barclays Center on Dean Street. Corcoran has the listing for this townhouse, listed at $1.495MM.

Either the homeowner is cashing out on the popularity of the Barclays Center or is now fed up living across from an arena.

Atlantic Co's list of beers on tap

A healthy and varied list, indeed (from their facebook page):

Captain Lawrence Pumpkin Ale
Captain Lawrence Kolsch
Avery Elie's Brown Ale
Greenport Harbor Black Duck Porter
Uinta Dubhe Imperial IPA

Empire White Aphro
Wolaver's IPA
Keegan's Mother's Milk Stout
Vicotry Prima Pils
Sixpoint Sweet Action
Pumphouse White (North Fork, LI)

Ortine pivots into Atlantic Co beer and wine bar

Ortine, the locally-sourced cafe on Washington in Prospect Heights has morphed into Atlantic Co, a beer and wine bar slated to open on Halloween night. Peep the facebook page here.

Washington Ave blocked off again

Washington Ave is blocked off again

Prospect Heights speedbumps coming

...in response to imminent opening of Atlantic Yards.

Per brownstoner, here are the locations:

Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place; Carlton Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street; Plaza Street West between Lincoln Place and Berkeley Place; Plaza Street West between Berkeley Place and Union Street; Clinton Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street; Prospect Place between Carlton Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue; Prospect Place between Vanderbilt Avenue to Underhill Avenue; Prospect Place between Underhill Avenue to Washington Avenue; Sterling Place between Washington Avenue and Underhill Avenue; and Washington Avenue between Gates Avenue and Greene Avenue.


They don't seem to be in the immediate vicinity of the arena, but may be a response to potential routes that drivers may take...

Hello Living's latest project called Hello Washington

Check out Hello Living's website with pictures and news on the Hello Washington development going up 6 stories high on the corner of Pacific and Washington.

651 Vanderbilt in Prospect Heights up for sale

$1.6mm for a commercial space and two three bedroom units. Seems like a decent deal, right?

Prospect Heights townhouse for $1.575M

Here are before and afters of the renovation at 678 Dean Street at the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue. Alluring at $1.575M for 2 duplex floor-thrus. The only bad part is the bus stop right outside. Having lived at Lafayette and South Portland for a few years, we can attest to the constant noise, dust, break noise of MTA buses.

Dedicated brownstoners won't like the fact that the place has been gut-reno'd into a heartless version of a historical townhouse.

Brooklyn gentrifying

Via @lou_dubois, here's a link on the fastest gentrifying zip codes in the US. Guess what - of the 25 towns listed, 4 are in Brookyn, including Prospect and Crown Heights and parts of Williamsburg and Bushwick and Fort Greene.

Beny's Delice opens up in Prospect Heights

French patisserie Beny's Delice has opened up next door to Cornelius on Prospect Heights' burgeoning Vanderbilt Avenue.

Chuko Ramen owners plan new premium sandwich shop

Prospect Heights' uphill rise continues, as Jamie Blankenship of Chuko Ramen plans a premium sandwich shop in the neighborhood. No other details except that they are actively looking at spaces.

Barclays Center parking plan to halve the number of spots

via @ayreport, Norman Oder reports that a traffic engineering expert has recommended cutting the number of parking spots by more than half! The NY Times article is here.

To quote: “We will scare drivers away from the arena,” Mr. Schwartz said in an interview. “My message to New Yorkers is, Don’t even think of driving to the Barclays arena.”

New Brooklyn car share

We were notified today of a new Brooklyn car share program soon to hit town, a la Zipcar.

Readers are invited to participate in a survey - one lucky winner will get chosen to win two Mets tickets to a single game later this season. Survey is here:

In addition, every person who fills out the survey will get a free one-year membership to the car-sharing program when it launches.

Clinton Hill Mansion wedding shoot with Karen Wise

Karen Wise, who shot our wedding, was the photographer on this ultraluxe winter wedding shoot at Brownstoner's favorite brownstone mansion in Clinton Hill.

Below is the video made by the cinematographer.

Modern Winter Styled Shoot from Love in Progress on Vimeo.