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There are also plenty of vacant storefronts along the avenue, and it'll be interesting to see what sorts of establishments move in once all of residential buildings fill up.Ī nearly 40,000 square-foot hotel is going up on Myrtle Avenue right near Broadway, via Goldmine Development and Rajendra Patel. Old-timers like pawn shops, dollar stores, and storefront churches still dominate Broadway's retail landscape, but organic supermarkets and artisanal coffee shops are creeping into the mix. Features include upscale rents ($2,350 for a two-bedroom), a brand new Blink next door, and those divisive Juliet balconies. Located steps from the train, as they say, the seven-story, 27-unit building at 1004 Gates Avenue started adding tenants recently. The Lexington Avenue block west of Broadway is now almost entirely new construction or 'development sites for sale', all of which are designed for those seeking 'trend setting style and enviable amenities' in their rental living arrangements. The buildings include more than 100 total units, with prices topping $3,200 a month, and amenities like a fitness center with 'surround music,” a furnished roof deck, and gaming lounge. On Greene Avenue right off Broadway, on the Stuyvesant Heights side of things, two luxury rental properties rose this year across the street from each other. The People's Garden at Broadway and Greene Avenue in Bushwick was 'permanently protected' in 1999 by the Trust For Public Land. Since 2012, the tropically-colored Living Gallery at 1094 Broadway has hosted events, classes, exhibitions of emerging artists, and pop-up shops at which locals can sell their wares.

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Guests can enjoy free bicycle rentals, an outdoor sundeck, and 'locally-inspired art'.Īt 1170 DeKalb Avenue, just a half block from the Red Lion, another boutique hotel is in the works, this one with approximately 125 rooms. Rooms start at $359 a night at the Red Lion, a boutique hotel which opened at 1080 Broadway in early 2017. A two-bedroom rental was recently listed for $2,850. The triangular 1000 Broadway, with 30 apartments on the Bed-Stuy side of Myrtle Avenue, features amenities like in-unit washer/dryers and balconies facing the elevated.

So far the retail on Broadway remains largely unaffected by all the new development, with dollar stores, Chinese take-out joints, and hair salons still predominating, but even here the signs of change are unmistakable, most notably with the opening of a handful of those reliable harbingers of gentrification, the pricey coffee shop. It's unclear how much of the recent construction seen here was also sparked by the upcoming L train shutdown, but obviously the market value of Brooklyn housing, office space, and hotels located near actual, working subway lines is going to increase as we approach the L-pocalypse. (And it even got the inevitable horrible neighborhood name portmanteau- “Bedwick”-proving that change isn’t too far off.)Īnd this despite the downzoning of Bedford Stuyvesant North in 2012, which restricted the height of side street development to four stories unless affordable housing was thrown into the mix.

That much of the avenue runs along the Bed-Stuy/Bushwick border, an area impoverished and neglected for decades, only adds to the unlikelihood that the corridor would be ripe for rapid development.Īnd yet a recent tour confirmed that all along Broadway between the Myrtle Avenue and Halsey Street stations, and on the blocks immediately adjacent to the commercial corridor, you'll now find a wealth of new, self-styled 'luxury' buildings, hotels, and active construction sites, as well as empty lots and zombie sites that increasingly seem more like opportunities than blight. It's a physical presence that, like all such structures, can fairly be described as hulking, as it casts deep shadows and rains down clatter on the boulevard below. An elevated rail line carrying the J, Z, and M trains runs just about the entire length of Brooklyn's Broadway, from the Williamsburg Bridge to Broadway Junction.

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