The Residences at the Williamsburg condominiums and the Hotel Williamsburg are being marketed as the first development in the neighborhood to combine apartment living and hotel service.
On Roebling Street, Alma Lounge draws a young, eager crowd, many of whom grew up nearby.In South Williamsburg, upscale Latin clubs are taking root with the local crowd.
The tenants say their landlord wants to drive them away so he can raise the rent. He disagrees. They are headed to court.
The company cut voltage by 8 percent to neighborhoods with about 123,000 customers, to ease demand while crews repaired equipment.
The plan now before the City Council has strong support for its low-cost housing feature, but critics say it is too big and too dense.
Douglas Steiner’s development needed a yard leased to a dance studio. The dance studio wanted to buy the building. They worked out a deal.
As new residents move into an Italian enclave in Brooklyn, an old ritual is greeted by curiosity, and indifference.
A rough-and-tumble-looking Hudson Valley town is attracting its own creative crowd away from New York City neighborhoods like Williamsburg.