From left: Mousa Khalil's delinquent properties at 352 94th Street, 321 Bay Ridge Parkway and 123 93rd Street in Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge residents hoping to oust a prolific developer who has amassed about 30 buildings in the neighborhood are getting some help from the foreclosure crisis. According to the New York Daily News seven of Mousa Khalil’s properties have already undergone foreclosure auction and 12 more are mired in early stages of the process. [more]
Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge, an area that was once predominantly Italian, is becoming more ethnically diverse, according to Crain’s, a shift that’s reflected in the area’s shop-front retail.
Cangiano’s, an Italian speciality food store shut up shop on Third and Ovington avenues last month after 100 years, following the closure of Richard & Vinnie’s Prime Meats on Third Avenue and 87th Street, which shuttered in July after 43 years. “We’ve always been known for our Italian cuisine,” said Michael Esposito, a lifelong Bay Ridge resident. “But this place just isn’t hardcore ‘guido’ anymore.”
Almost 22 percent of Bay Ridge’s residents have Italian ancestry, according to census data cited by Crain’s, down from 32 percent in 1990. Increasing numbers of Chinese, Egyptians and Russians call the neighborhood home, the data shows. [more]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has submitted an official challenge to New York
City’s 2010 census results to the U.S. Census Bureau, according to a
letter released by the mayor’s office today. In the letter to Census
Bureau director Robert Groves, Bloomberg states that the city believes
housing units in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst as well as in Astoria and
Jackson Heights were erroneously counted as vacant. Rather, Bloomberg
writes, data shows those neighborhoods are growing and vibrant parts of
the city.
– Miranda Neubauer [more]
A new Ford showroom and sales center is set to open in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the automaker announced today. The 7,500-square-foot retail location, which is located on a 27,000-square-foot lot at 612 86th Street, will create 50 news jobs in the area, according to Ford representatives. The company said it also plans to build a parts and service center in the Brooklyn Army Terminal site, although Ford would not divulge how much space that facility would use. TRD
A new Ford showroom and sales center is set to open in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the automaker announced today. The 7,500-square-foot retail location, which is located on a 27,000-square-foot lot at 612 86th Street, will create 50 news jobs in the area, according to Ford representatives. The company said it also plans to build a parts and service center in the Brooklyn Army Terminal site, although Ford would not divulge how much space that facility would use. TRD
Three restaurants started by Brooklyn’s most prolific restaurateur, Jim Mamary, and one of his partners, Richard Krause, were abruptly closed last week with no warning to employees. And another of their Brooklyn eateries, the troubled seafood spot Trout, is unlikely to reopen after it shuttered early this fall due to slow business.
Employees at Fly Fish in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Bueno in Boerum Hill said they were stunned to hear at staff meetings Dec. 1 that the shift would be their last.
Bueno, a European bistro that Krause opened three months ago at the intersection of Smith and Pacific Streets, is part of a complex that also included Trout, Since 1963, also closed last week, and Pacifico. Pacifico, a Mexican cantina that Mamary no longer owns a stake in, will remain open.
“They said they needed to pull in $17,000 by week’s end and they were only pulling in $13,000,” said an employee at Bueno, who requested anonymity. “Now I’m back to square one, looking for a job on the holidays.” [more]
They may be pricey but the Upper East Side and
West Side
out, according to a Post analysis of data from the Real Estate Board of New
York’s Web site. Since Jan. 1, user searches on ResidentialNYC.com show that
the next three most popular areas are the
and
Brooklyn’s most popular were Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Bedford-Stuyvesant,
and
Hills,
Douglaston/Little Neck. The most popular in the
were Spuyten Duyvil, Throgs Neck, Riverdale, Parkchester and Jerome Park. Staten
Island’s most popular neighborhoods were Tottenville, Great Kills, Rossville,
and
