KCP Exclusive: City Breaks Its Own Housing Laws

KCP Exclusive: City Breaks Its Own Housing Laws

The city admitted Friday it was guilty of violating its own illegal housing conversion law in housing homeless people in a Bedford-Stuyvesant four-story walk-up approved for 14-units of housing illegally converted into a 43-unit single room occupancy (SRO) building. According to city records, Monroe Lewis LLC acquired the 529 Monroe Street building in May 2016 for $1.7 million, and between […]

1134 Fulton Street Likely To Become  An Even Bigger Development

1134 Fulton Street Likely To Become An Even Bigger Development

BEDFORD STUYVESANT – The dusty cavity below the Franklin Avenue shuttle train station in Bedford Stuyvesant is beginning to show signs of progress –– three and a half years after developer Joseph Brunner purchased the property for $19,000,000. The building was originally proposed as an 8-story, mixed-use project at 1134 Fulton Street, at the corner of Franklin Avenue. It was […]