From left: 167 Sixth Avenue (credit: PropertyShark) and the home’s interior

The Park Slope home that was featured in Noah Baumbach’s 2005 movie “The Squid and the Whale” has sold for $3.45 million, Brownstoner reported. The purchase price matches the property’s asking price. [more]

Barclays Center

The brand new Barclays Center is still weeks from opening but its facade gives the appearance of a building many years its senior. That’s because, the New York Times noted, the arena’s SHoP Architects-designed exterior was made with weathering steel.

The steel is made to rust quickly, and that layer of rust protects against moisture and slows the corrosion process. Other buildings in the city made with the weathering steel, including the East of East condominium building at 13-14 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City and a Greenwich Street townhouse, applied a fresh layer of it and therefore stained sidewalks and nearby glass orange from dripping rust. [more]

From left: Ted Mann and Greenwood Park

Following the opening of the 700-seat beer hall Greenwood Park in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn last month, neighborhood residents are complaining that patrons are behaving badly — having sex in public, urinating on public property, driving drunk from the premises and making excessive noise late into the night. The problems reportedly get worse on the weekends. [more]

From left: Julie Torres Moskovitz and 23 Park Place

Amid the reports that the Lower East Side arts collective ABC No Rio would be converted into a passive house, Curbed reported that a Brooklyn property won the race to become the city’s first passive house.

Passive houses must meet certain energy-efficiency standards. The project’s website states that passive houses, standards for which were conceived in Germany, are air tight and therefore consume some 75 to 90 percent less energy than regular homes. [more]

816 Washington Avenue before and after the fire.

A Prospect Heights apartment building that was destroyed last year in a three-alarm fire is in the beginning stages of redevelopment, according to Brownstoner. ELH Management President Larry Hirschfield, who owns the property, located at 816 Washington Avenue, received approval from Community Board 8 for a variance to rebuild on the site of the demolished structure. He plans a five-story affordable housing building with four three-bedroom apartments and four four-bedroom apartments.  [more]

Sotheby's International Realty President Philip White, Warren Lewis President Aroza Sanjana and Warren Lewis' Park Slope office

Brooklyn-based Warren Lewis Realty has joined the Sotheby’s International Realty affiliate network, Sotheby’s announced today, and will operate as Warren Lewis Sotheby’s International Realty. The 25-year-old, previously independently owned firm has two offices: one at 123A Seventh Avenue in Park Slope and another it opened earlier this year at 299 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. [more]

The 6/15 Green garden in Park Slope

Park Slope, Brooklyn residents are upset that a new four-story condominium building planned to rise near the corner of Sixth Avenue and 15th Street will limit how much sun a popular community garden next door can get, the Wall Street Journal reported. The garden, called 6/15 Green, is filled with plants that require sunlight, residents say. [more]

470 Vanderbilt Avenue rendering

The Barclays Center has made some unlikely real estate into potentially very profitable space, the New York Times and Real Estate Weekly reported. The building, at 470 Vanderbilt at the corner of Atlantic Avenue, is shopping for a large retail tenant, Real Estate Weekly said, to take 21,500 square feet of space. GFI Development is looking for tenants looking to capitalize on what is almost certain to be an influx of pedestrian traffic when the Barclays Center arrives. [more]

A rendering of the residential tower and MaryAnne Gilmartin

Forest City Ratner believes modular construction will grow increasingly common in New York City high rise development and that’s one reason the firm has established a modular factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, GlobeSt.com reported. Speaking yesterday at a Real Estate Lenders Association conference, MaryAnne Gilmartin, an executive vice president at Forest City Ratner, said utilizing modular construction for the 34-story, 340,000-square-foot residential building set to rise in Atlantic Yards could cut the construction time of the project by one-third to just 12 months. Even as costs are reduced, the construction method won’t impact future tenants in the rental building, she said. [more]

Marty Markowitz and Haus 96

A small Prospect Heights development earned a nod from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for its energy efficient design. Markowitz singled out the four-unit redevelopment project at 96 St. Marks Avenue, called Haus 96, that’s gunning to meet “Passive House” requirements.

To meet those criteria, developer Brendan Aguayo is outfitting the four-story brownstone with air-tight, densely packed insulation while maintaining continuous fresh air ventilation. As a result, the Ken Levenson-designed building will use 60 to 70 percent less energy and 90 percent less heat. [more]