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Home built by NHL star🏒 listed for $3.9M & NJ agency settles in housing discrimination cases
Welcome back to your favorite real estate newsletter, North Jersey Living. Before we get into this week's updates, I just wanted to remind you that my email is always open for story ideas, questions, comments. If you have something you'd like to share, feel free to send me a message at MMcGay@gannett.com.
Rezoning Approved for Synagogue Rehabilitation and New Construction at 817 Avenue H in Kensington, Brooklyn
New York-based real estate law firm Rosenberg & Estis P.C. has secured rezoning approval for Agudist Council of Greater New York, a Brooklyn congregation, to rehabilitate its synagogue and senior center at 817 Avenue H in Kensington, Brooklyn. The site has been owned and operated by the Agudist Council since 1975.
Garden Communities Breaks Ground at 111 Spring Street, New Providence
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ – Short Hills based Garden Communities has broken ground for a 192-residence luxury multifamily property at 111 Spring Street in New Providence. The 27-acre suburban development will include a mix of townhomes and spacious apartments, as well as a comprehensive amenity package. A winter 2025 delivery is anticipated. Surrounded by lush, mature trees and paved paths, 111 Spring Street sits just one-half mile from N.J. Transit’s Murray Hill station. New Providence’s top-rated middle and high schools, and Allen W. Roberts Elementary School are also all within approximately one-half mile of the property. Future residents will enjoy proximity...
A chic loft in the NYC building that birthed The Velvet Underground lists for $1.79M
This New York City loft comes with a dash of extra downtown cool — but it won’t cost you a song. At 56 Ludlow St., a chic loft has listed for sale asking $1.79 million. But more than a swanky pad, the building itself is regarded for being the birthplace of The Velvet Underground — the rock group that influenced decades of alternative and underground music down the line, despite its own lack of success. In 1964, the fifth floor of this Lower East Side building housed the Welsh musician John Cale, now 82 and with a new album “POPtical Illusion” out...
Chi Ossé’s brokers’ fee bill will make the NYC housing market worse
Rent costs in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn are at record highs, but progressive City Councilman Chi Ossé is looking to raise rents in the Big Apple even more. Yes, Ossé claims he’s helping renters by reintroducing a bill to require whoever hires a broker, which is overwhelmingly landlords, to pay the broker’s fee. What will come next is obvious. Landlords who can’t absorb the cost of brokers’ fees will pay it upfront and then hike monthly rent to cover the cost, shifting it back to renters. NYC plan to convert obsolete office buildings into residential units would solve crisis — but...
Jersey City Council discusses new affordable housing enforcement ordinance
The Jersey City Council discussed a new affordable housing enforcement ordinance, up for first reading on Wednesday, during yesterday afternoon’s caucus meeting. “This ordinance will clarify affordable housing compliance language for certain income-restricted housing units,” Jersey City Affordable Housing Division Director Gigi Gazon explained. The ordinance imposes would...
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