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New House For Vacant Prospect Heights Historic District Lot

Curbed Staff writing for Curbed. “Contextual” was the key word at last night’s Community Board 8 meeting in Brooklyn. The board’s land use committee mulled a proposal for new construction in an empty lot at 576 Carlton Avenue between Bergen Street and St. Marks Avenue in the Prospect Heights Historic District. The lot has stood empty for years and the

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West 57th’s Hodgepodge Block

Cristopher Gray reports for The New York Times.   [Ian Douglas for The New York Times] The developer Extell now has the go-ahead from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to cantilever a 1,400-foot tower over the Art Students League at 215 West 57th Street, which will create, certainly, a beanstalk presence on what was already a thoroughly jumbled block. Just how

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