Hush Street is tracking the development, planning, and preservation activity shaping Brooklyn Heights — a neighborhood that’s almost entirely covered by New York City’s very first historic district, designated in 1965. That single fact shapes nearly everything on this page: exterior work here typically needs sign-off from the Landmarks Preservation Commission before it needs anything else, which makes preservation fights as central to “what’s being built” here as any construction crane.
This page focuses on projects with real stakes for the neighborhood — major redevelopment, contested preservation applications, and infrastructure that will visibly change how the neighborhood works — rather than routine permits. We found a wide field of smaller filings and renovations while researching this page; the ones that didn’t clear our bar for inclusion are being tracked internally and may surface here later if they become more consequential.
This is a living page. We’ll update individual projects as new filings, hearings, decisions, or other meaningful developments occur, rather than starting from scratch each time.
| Project | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1BQE Triple Cantilever Reconstruction | Beneath the Promenade, Atlantic Ave to Sands St | Planning / Environmental Review |
| 2One Montague Place | 205 Montague Street | Under Construction |
| 3Former St. Francis College Campus | 158-176 Remsen Street | Under Construction |
| 4Former Watchtower Headquarters Conversion | 25-30 Columbia Heights | Pre-ULURP / Land Use Review |
| 548 Willow Place Rooftop Addition | 48 Willow Place | Under Review — Hearing Deferred |
| 6St. George Tower Wellness Club | 111 Hicks Street / 43 Clark Street | Under Construction |
| 7Hotel Bossert Conversion | 98 Montague Street | Under Construction |
| 8Saint Ann’s School | 142 Pierrepont Street | Under Construction |
| 927 Cranberry Street | 27 Cranberry Street | Approved / Pre-Construction |
| 1038 State Street | 38 State Street | Approved / Permit Issued |
| 1133 Joralemon Street | 33 Joralemon Street | Under Construction |
| 12Packer Collegiate Garden House | 170 Joralemon Street | Completed |
| 13186 Remsen Street (Franklin Building) | 186 Remsen Street | LPC-Approved / For Sale |
The Projects Reshaping Brooklyn Heights
From a $4 billion highway rebuild to landmark preservation fights, here’s what’s actually moving.
BQE Triple Cantilever Reconstruction
A Decades-Old Structural Problem Finally Gets a Plan
The BQE’s triple-cantilever section — the stacked, three-level highway structure that runs directly underneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — has been deteriorating for years, and the city has floated and abandoned several rehabilitation concepts since the mid-2010s, including a widely opposed plan that would have temporarily converted the Promenade itself into a highway detour.
On August 24, 2026 — three days before this update — the Mayor Mamdani administration and NYC DOT, under Commissioner Mike Flynn, announced a different approach: a $4 billion, roughly 10-year rehabilitation that repairs deteriorated concrete, structural steel, and rebar without widening the roadway or adding lanes, extending the structure’s usable life by about 40 years.
It’s important to be precise about what “stays open” here. The pedestrian Promenade itself is not being converted into a roadway, which was the disruptive earlier proposal DOT abandoned. But the vehicle roadway will close during construction, with traffic shifted onto a temporary two-level highway structure built along Furman Street, at the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park — carrying the corridor’s roughly 130,000 daily vehicles at roughly the same height as the current highway. Coverage of the announcement has sometimes blurred this distinction; we’re stating it plainly here.
A Muted Welcome, and a Park With Something to Lose
The Brooklyn Heights Association, which has pushed for years for a faster, less disruptive fix, gave the announcement a mixed reception. Its executive director called the plan “depressing,” noting it effectively “locks in the BQE until 2080,” and pressed DOT on whether a less expensive, less disruptive alternative had been fully ruled out.
City Councilmember Lincoln Restler, State Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon issued a joint statement striking a similar note — welcoming that the plan rehabilitates rather than replaces the cantilever within its existing footprint, while calling the construction approach itself “invasive and disruptive” and pressing the administration to improve air quality during the build and explore new connections to Brooklyn Bridge Park.
That park is a live concern in its own right: because the temporary highway runs along Furman Street at the park’s edge, community members have raised questions about construction impact on a park that was only fully completed within the last decade, and some residents have argued for dismantling the cantilever outright rather than rebuilding it.
Environmental review is expected to run through 2028, with construction not likely to begin until 2030. That means this is a story about a decision that’s just been made, not construction that’s about to start — but it’s the single largest physical-change story touching the neighborhood, and it will shape Promenade access, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and BQE-adjacent streets for the next decade-plus.
Sources: Brownstoner (Aug 24, 2026); NYC Mayor’s Office; Streetsblog NYC; Gothamist; NY State Senate (Gounardes/Restler/Simon statement); Brooklyn Heights Association
One Montague Place
Full coverage, updated as the project changes: One Montague Place: Full Project Page.
Poised to Be Brooklyn’s Tallest Condo Building
Landau Properties, led by Jonathan Landau — previously CEO of Fortis Property Group — is building a 47-story tower at 205 Montague Street designed by Hill West Architects. At 672 feet, it’s positioned to become one of Brooklyn’s tallest residential buildings, trailing only Brooklyn Tower and Brooklyn Point.
The building will hold 136 residences — a mix of 90 rental apartments and 46 condominiums averaging roughly 2,100 square feet — plus nearly 40,000 square feet of retail space, a jazz club, and parking for more than 100 vehicles. The project is reported at roughly $550 million. Landau’s December 2025 financing package was $113 million in senior secured debt from Northwind Group plus $100 million in equity, including $25 million in preferred equity from Atlas Capital Group.
One figure worth flagging as unresolved: while most reporting and city permit records describe the tower as 47 stories, at least one outlet has described it as 51 stories. We’re using the 47-story figure here since it’s the one that recurs consistently across independent sources, but we haven’t been able to confirm which number is correct with certainty.
Why the Sale Happened When It Did
The site’s ownership history explains some of the deal’s timing. Midtown Equities, the Cayre family’s real estate firm, bought 205 Montague for just $33 million back in 2010 — meaning Landau’s $140 million purchase in 2024 represented roughly a four-fold gain.
But Midtown wasn’t selling from a position of total comfort: in February 2025, it sued its loan servicer, Rialto Capital Advisors, alleging a “campaign of deception” meant to force default on a $45 million loan tied to the property — a loan originally issued by Signature Bank and transferred to Rialto after Signature’s 2023 collapse, after Rialto refused to extend the loan’s maturity date. The suit settled within about 10 days, giving Midtown until August 2025 to pay off the loan. The sale to Landau followed later that year.
A Site With Baseball History
The address has a notable past: it once held the Brooklyn Dodgers’ front office, where general manager Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson. That building came down in 1962; the mid-century commercial structure that replaced it stood until this year’s demolition, completed by around June 2026.
Sales at the new tower are expected to launch in 2027, with completion targeted for 2029.
Sources: CityRealty; Brooklyn Eagle; The Real Deal; Crain’s New York Business (Rialto lawsuit); Multi-Housing News (financing detail); NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build)
Former St. Francis College Campus
A College Campus Becomes Housing
St. Francis College occupied this five-building complex from 1963 until it relocated to Downtown Brooklyn in 2021-2022. Rockrose Development bought the site for $160 million in 2023, after an earlier $180 million deal with a different developer, Alexico Group, collapsed — reportedly in part because of an 8-foot setback restriction on half the campus that complicated the site’s value, and led to litigation.
That original suit, Alexico Group v. St. Francis College, was settled confidentially in May 2025 and formally dismissed the following month. A separate, similarly captioned 2026 court filing surfaced in our research that we could not fully verify the relationship of to the original case or to Rockrose specifically — we’re flagging that as a loose thread rather than treating the matter as fully closed.
Rockrose’s plan calls for three new residential structures plus the conversion and vertical expansion of 176 Remsen Street — the college’s former administration building, originally built in 1914 as the Brooklyn Union Gas Company’s headquarters and individually landmarked by the city in 2011. That landmark status means this project has its own Landmarks Preservation Commission review track, on top of whatever zoning and building-code approvals apply to the new construction.
Altogether, the project is expected to yield 747 apartments, ground-floor retail, and below-grade parking for 131 cars and 375 bikes, at a reported construction cost of $207.6 million.
Where Things Stand
Demolition across the site was reported complete in November 2025. City permit records show foundation and excavation work continuing at 176 Remsen Street into mid-2026, consistent with a project that’s now moved from teardown into active construction. No date has been reported for a construction completion beyond a general early-2029 target mentioned in earlier coverage of the project.
Sources: Crain’s New York Business; The Real Deal; Brooklyn Eagle; NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build)
Former Watchtower Headquarters Conversion
The Third Act for This Site
This isn’t the first redevelopment plan for the former Watchtower complex — it’s the third. CIM Group, together with Kushner Companies and LIVWRK, bought the five-building complex for $340 million in 2016, one of the largest Brooklyn real estate deals on record at the time. That trio spent 2016-2018 pursuing a Gensler-designed office and retail conversion known as “Panorama.” Kushner Companies pulled out in 2018, and the office plan was ultimately abandoned entirely — not merely paused. CIM Group is the only developer remaining from the original group, and the 661-unit residential plan now before the city is a complete pivot from that earlier office-conversion attempt.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses relocated their headquarters out of Brooklyn Heights years ago, and 25-30 Columbia Heights has sat largely vacant for roughly a decade since. CIM’s current plan adds five stories to one 12-story building and one additional floor to another, working with architect Morris Adjmi.
The plan calls for 661 rental apartments, with 166 of them — about 25% — permanently affordable, plus 113,000 square feet of commercial and community-facility space.
Headed Into a Public Land-Use Process
CIM presented the plan to Brooklyn Community Board 2 in a pre-ULURP briefing in March 2026 — an early, informal step that precedes the city’s formal Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. Reaction so far has been mixed: at least one resident has expressed skepticism about the scale of the addition, while local officials, including City Councilmember Lincoln Restler, have signaled support, largely around the affordable-housing component.
The formal ULURP application (filed December 5, 2025, under applicant “David Wellspring,” CIM Group’s VP of Development) fills in detail the public presentations didn’t: the rezoning would shift the site from M2-1 to a new M1-5A/R10A and M1-5A/R8A split with a new Special Mixed-Use District, for roughly 831,000 total square feet. Per-building, 25 Columbia Heights would grow from 12 to 17 stories with 392 units, and 30 Columbia Heights from 13 to 14 stories with 269 units.
A discrepancy worth flagging: the ULURP filing text itself specifies 640 dwelling units, not the 661 figure reported by press and used elsewhere on this page — we have not been able to resolve which is current. Separately, NYC’s own land-use tracking system shows no milestone recorded after March 2026, so as of this update it’s unconfirmed whether the Community Board 2 full-board vote has actually taken place.
A required environmental review (CEQR Type I) held its scoping meeting in March 2026; the city’s own demographic projection for the completed project estimates roughly 1,446 additional residents and 1,752 fewer workers in the area by 2029, reflecting the shift from the site’s old office/institutional use toward housing.
Because this project needs land-use approval rather than an as-of-right permit, its timeline runs through public hearings at the community board, borough president, City Planning Commission, and City Council — a process that typically takes the better part of a year once formally filed. We’ll track each stage as it happens.
For the full building history, the ownership timeline, and an unresolved square-footage discrepancy in the filing, see our Spotlight on the Watchtower redevelopment.
Sources: NY1; Gothamist; BK Magazine; The Real Deal (2016 purchase); NYC Department of City Planning ZAP application 2025K0150
48 Willow Place Rooftop Addition
One of Three Sibling Houses on the Block
48 Willow Place is one of three mid-century modern townhouses on the block designed by architects Joseph and Mary Merz — the couple built it as their own residence. The trio — 40, 44, and 48 Willow Place — won the New York Chapter AIA Award in 1969 for their neighborhood-scale sensitivity and design quality, and are generally described as the only modern, landmark-approved townhouses in a historic district otherwise defined by 19th-century brownstones. Sibling house 40 Willow Place carries its own notable history as the “Leonard Garment House,” named for its original owner, Leonard Garment, who later served as White House Counsel under President Nixon; it separately won an Architectural Record Award of Excellence.
48 Willow Place itself sold for $5.8 million in 2021, then again for $10.6 million in October 2024 — the buyer in that second sale is the current owner now proposing the addition. Its current owner is proposing a rooftop terrace and addition that would be visible from the street, altering the geometry of the house’s distinctive modernist facade.
The application went before Brooklyn Community Board 2 on November 5, 2025. A Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing was then calendared for November 25, 2025 — but according to our research, that hearing did not go forward as scheduled; it was deferred, with a new date to be announced.
A Precedent the Opposition Is Leaning On
Preservationists have organized against the proposal, including more than 650 petition signatures and a formal objection letter from the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture. Their central argument leans on a specific precedent: a similar visible rooftop addition was proposed decades ago for 40 Willow Place, another of the three Merz houses, and the Commission denied it — reasoning, as opponents now argue should apply here too, that the sculptural design of these houses would be compromised by a visible addition.
We found no news coverage of what happens next procedurally; everything here about the deferral comes from direct reporting on the November 2025 hearing itself. This is a live, unresolved application, not a settled matter — we’ll update this section as soon as a new hearing date or decision is reported.
Sources: Brownstoner (Nov 11, 2025); The Architect’s Newspaper; Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture; 48willow.org (advocacy site); Brooklyn Eagle (sale history, architectural background)
St. George Tower Wellness Club
A Well-Known Gym Space, Rebuilding Almost Entirely Out of View
Longtime residents know this address as Eastern Athletic Club, which closed in 2023, inside the ground floor and lower levels of the St. George Tower — the co-op conversion of the historic St. George Hotel, on the corner of Clark and Hicks streets. What’s replacing it is a substantially bigger commercial project than casual observation would suggest, and it’s almost entirely absent from neighborhood news coverage.
In May 2025, trade publications reported that East Gate Investors and SC Holdings signed a 29-year lease for 52,000 square feet in the building — spanning the lower levels, ground floor, and second floor — for a private “wellness, racquet sports, leisure and community” club. No opening date has been reported. We found this covered only in commercial real estate trade press (Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, NYREJ), never in general Brooklyn Heights news coverage — which is presumably why it hasn’t previously been reported as an active local story.
What the Permits Show
City records confirm the buildout is real and ongoing. Two Department of Buildings permits are currently active: a $5,000,000 basement and cellar interior renovation (filed June 2025) and a $220,000 structural reinforcement job (filed November 2025), both listing owner Justin Weiner. Separately, the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals granted an extension of the building’s 1979 operating variance in June 2025, specifically to allow “a change in operator” and give the project more time to obtain a certificate of occupancy — itself primary-source evidence that the buildout isn’t finished yet.
On the design side, Landmarks Preservation Commission filings show a storefront entrance and signage application from architect Beat Schenk of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), approved as a Certificate of No Effect in May 2026, with a further filing submitted in July 2026.
An Open Question We’re Not Guessing On
Open Squash, a nonprofit that had been reported taking over part of this space after Eastern Athletic’s closure, is never mentioned in any of the 2025-2026 coverage of the new wellness club. Whether Open Squash is part of the new plan, was displaced by it, or occupies a different part of the building entirely isn’t something we could confirm from available sourcing — we’re stating that plainly rather than assuming either answer.
We looked into this further in a dedicated Spotlight on the Open Squash question, including Open Squash’s own current location count and the club’s architect attribution.
Sources: NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build); NYC Board of Standards and Appeals, Calendar 308-79-BZIV; NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission permit records; commercial real estate trade coverage (Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, NYREJ, May 2025)
Hotel Bossert Conversion
A Building With a Long, Uncertain Recent History
The Hotel Bossert opened in 1909 and has cycled through several uses over the past few decades, including a stretch owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Reporting on the current project describes it as emerging from “a long uncertain future” under a new owner who is now converting it into 61 condominium units, including penthouses.
As of late July 2026, the building was wrapped in construction scaffolding, with debris visible that a local report speculated came from interior partition removal — consistent with active gut-renovation work. Completion is expected in 2028.
A Gap Worth Naming
We were not able to identify the specific developer or ownership entity behind this conversion in the sourcing available to us — the one detailed report we found on the project doesn’t name them, and we found no second independent source to corroborate or add detail.
Update: the developer has since been identified as SomeraRoad, which bought the hotel out of foreclosure for $100 million in May 2025 and is converting the landmarked 1909 building — once known as “the Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn” and later home to the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bethelites for nearly three decades — into condominiums (Hush Street’s reporting keeps the filed count at 61; SomeraRoad’s own September 2026 marketing materials cite 62, see discrepancy below) plus a Danny Meyer restaurant. In September 2026, Marriott International and SomeraRoad announced the project will carry the Ritz-Carlton brand — Marriott licenses the trademark to SomeraRoad’s Bossert Propco, LLC and is not the owner, developer, or seller.
New renderings by SLCE Architects, released September 19, 2026, show the restored Renaissance Revival exterior and the specific modifications the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved: a new 15th floor atop the roof, enlargement of the existing levels above the main setback, and infill construction on the rear elevation. Residential sales launched the same week, led by Ryan Serhant’s SERHANT. New Development, with Ravi Kantha and the Kantha Team. Construction is expected to commence later in 2026, with completion anticipated in 2029. Read Hush Street’s full Living Project Page on Hotel Bossert for the complete history, ownership timeline, and current construction photos.
Sources: Brownstoner (Jul 25, 2026); Marriott International/SomeraRoad press release (Sep 15, 2026); The Real Deal (Sep 15, 2026); NYC Board of Standards and Appeals, Calendar 189-12-BZIV (Extension of Time to Complete Construction, granted Dec 11, 2023); New York YIMBY (Sep 19, 2026)
Saint Ann’s School — 142 Pierrepont Street
A Quiet Acquisition, a Major Renovation
Saint Ann’s School bought 140-142 Pierrepont Street from Jonathan Rose Companies for $16 million in May 2025. City permit records show the school has since filed for a substantial gut renovation of the building — cellar through the roof — at a reported construction cost of $7.1 million, a permit that was issued in April 2026 and appears to be active now.
A related, smaller permit next door at 153 Pierrepont Street, also tied to Saint Ann’s, covers a $237,757 interior renovation of the building’s fourth and fifth floors.
An Institutional Expansion With Essentially No Public Reporting
We found this project through city permit records, not press. The only outside confirmation we located was a real estate data service noting the sale; we found no coverage in any neighborhood or trade publication describing what Saint Ann’s plans for the space, whether it’s classroom expansion, administrative use, or something else, or how the school is characterizing the project publicly. That’s worth naming directly: a private school gut-renovating a $16 million building in a historic district is exactly the kind of institutional growth a neighborhood usually hears about — and here, it hasn’t yet.
Sources: NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build); real estate transaction data (PincusCo)
27 Cranberry Street
A Vacant Lot in a Historic District, and a Buyer With a Record
This is a small project by scale — a single four-story house on a vacant 2,500-square-foot lot, already cleared for construction by a 2024 Landmarks Preservation Commission approval — but the buyer’s history makes it worth watching. Developer Dean Brodsky, operating as Brodmore, closed on the parcel for $5.4 million in August 2025.
Brodsky has been cited in connection with two prior construction-safety incidents: a 2019 scaffolding collapse in Gowanus and a 2024 wall collapse in Fort Greene. Neither incident is connected to this specific site, and there’s no indication yet of any problem with this project — we’re including that history because it’s directly relevant to how much scrutiny a construction site in a landmarked historic district might reasonably draw once work begins, not to suggest wrongdoing here.
The lot’s previous owner, Louis Greco Jr., has his own bankruptcy and lawsuit history unrelated to this transaction. We have not yet found reporting establishing when construction is expected to begin.
Sources: Crain’s New York Business; Brooklyn Eagle
38 State Street
A former trolley powerhouse that later served as a parking garage is being converted into five residential units, largely demolishing the existing structure while preserving its Art Deco street-facing facade — a project our first research pass flagged as thin on detail. City permit records now confirm the scope: owner Vadem Brodsky, an adaptive-reuse permit approved in October 2025 and issued in February 2026, at an estimated cost of roughly $995,832. The design was presented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2025 and reported at the time to have drawn some debate, though we found no specifics on what that debate concerned.
Sources: NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build); Brownstoner (Jun 2025)
33 Joralemon Street
This one surfaced through pure permit-record research, with no press coverage anywhere that we could find. NYC Department of Buildings records show a foundation permit for a new 4-story residential building with a cellar and sub-cellar, filed in December 2025. Separately, an LPC filing from May 2026 covers underpinning — reinforcing an existing foundation, typically to support new construction or additional stories — at the same address. Two independent city record systems confirming real structural activity at a specific address, with zero outside reporting, is exactly the kind of story this kind of research is meant to surface; we don’t yet know who the developer is or what the finished building is expected to look like.
Sources: NYC DOB permit records (DOB NOW: Build); NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission permit records (LPC-26-10814)
Packer Collegiate Garden House
The First of Its Kind in New York City
Packer Collegiate Institute’s new “Garden House” is a 17,250-square-foot addition built primarily from mass timber — engineered wood structural elements — making it, by available reporting, the first K-12 school building in New York City to use the material at this scale. The project, designed by WXY, also included renovating an 8,200-square-foot landmarked brownstone attached to the new structure.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the project back in 2019; construction proceeded over the following years, and the building opened for use in fall 2025.
Why It’s Here
This page generally tracks projects still in progress, but Garden House earns a spot as a just-finished, architecturally notable local first — the kind of project that can shape what gets proposed next, both at other schools and elsewhere in a historic district where new construction methods aren’t common. We’re marking it complete and will leave it as a closed entry rather than continuing to track it.
Sources: The Architect’s Newspaper (Dec 2025); School Construction News (Jul 2026); Packer Collegiate Institute
186 Remsen Street (Franklin Building)
A Landmark Approved for a Hotel, Still Vacant
The Franklin Building at 186 Remsen Street is one of the oldest structures in the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District — an 1886-87 Romanesque Revival building by the Parfitt Brothers that has sat vacant for decades. In 2019, developer Upventures LLC sought Landmarks Preservation Commission approval to add eight stories atop the existing six, converting the building into a 37-room hotel called Remsen Manor with two restaurants. The LPC initially voted “no action” in January 2019, sending the design back over the addition’s color and detailing; a revised version won approval on June 18, 2019.
Approved, Then Nothing — Now For Sale
We found no record of a construction permit ever being filed for the approved addition. The building is now listed for sale by JLL as a “premier development site,” with the marketing describing up to 60,000 square feet of buildable area under the City of Yes and the seller open to a joint-venture with a hospitality operator. That listing also describes the seller as connected to “one of the world’s most famous 3-Michelin-starred restaurant and Inn” — a claim we could not independently verify and aren’t repeating as fact.
Most local coverage — Brownstoner’s own “Building of the Day” feature, StreetEasy, and the neighborhood’s own Brooklyn Heights Blog — treats this as a Brooklyn Heights building, though at least one 2019 headline filed it under “Downtown Brooklyn,” the same historic-district boundary ambiguity that puts the Brooklyn Municipal Building at 210 Joralemon Street in Hush Street’s Downtown Brooklyn tracker instead. We’re keeping this one here on the weight of the local sourcing.
Sources: Brownstoner; Brownstoner (Jun 2019); JLL; NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission permit records
A note on the former Walgreens site at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue: the corner is widely reported as “Brooklyn Heights” — including in coverage of its $30 million sale and the 75-unit, 14-story tower now filed for the site — but parcel records place it in Downtown Brooklyn (Community District 2, tax block 276), immediately across the neighborhood’s Atlantic Avenue boundary. Hush Street’s Downtown Brooklyn tracker covers it in full; we’re linking to it here rather than duplicating that reporting.
Capital & Transactions
Money Moving in Brooklyn Heights
A curated look at recent property sales and financing that help explain who’s buying, building, and lending in Brooklyn Heights right now. Drawn from New York City’s public ACRIS property records, not a complete log of every filing — we include only transactions that say something real about the neighborhood’s direction, and leave out routine paperwork, internal transfers, and deals we can’t explain responsibly.
67 Livingston StreetAug. 2026
A $24 million loan from Derby Copeland Capital, a real private commercial real-estate lender, against 67 Livingston Street — a building not currently in Hush Street’s Brooklyn Heights registry. Worth watching for what the financing is for; not yet independently confirmed as construction, acquisition, or refinancing.
172 Remsen Street — Former St. Francis College CampusJul. 2026
A $91 million mortgage-assignment/agreement on the former St. Francis College campus (Section 3, above) — bought by Rockrose for $160 million in 2023 and now held by BK Acquisition Three L.L.C. — confirms real refinancing activity on one of Brooklyn Heights’ largest redevelopment sites.
192 Columbia HeightsJun. 2026
A confirmed $24.5 million off-market townhouse sale — reported by The Real Deal and 6sqft as Brooklyn’s priciest closing so far in 2026 — bought by an anonymous shell, “Luffy & Friends LLC,” registered at a Manhattan law firm’s address. The buyer-anonymity structure is ordinary practice, not evidence of anything irregular.
194 Columbia HeightsJun. 2026
An 1862 Italianate brownstone on the Promenade — vacant and boarded for decades, nicknamed the neighborhood’s “spite house” — finally sold for $15 million after Curbed reported it hitting the market in April 2026. New, anonymous LLC ownership raises the obvious next question of what happens to the building next; nothing filed yet confirms renovation or redevelopment plans.
188 Montague StreetJun. 2026
Beyond the already-reported $17 million Treeline-to-Gora Group sale and its $11.25 million acquisition loan, this ACRIS filing shows an additional financing layer — naming a Signature Bank-failure-successor lending vehicle and a commercial real-estate debt fund — that public reporting on the sale hasn’t mentioned. A developing situation to watch, not a finished story: the parties’ identities are plausible but not independently verified.
Source: New York City’s public ACRIS property records. This module is reviewed and curated by Hush Street editors, not an automated feed, and will be updated as new, meaningful filings are confirmed.
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Hush Street Editorial researches and reports on the projects, permits, and physical changes reshaping Brooklyn — and, more broadly, New York City. Reporting draws on primary-source city records — Department of Buildings filings, land-use and planning applications, agency and community-board documents — verified and cross-checked against independent reporting where it exists. Coverage is continuously updated as new filings and decisions are recorded, and confirmed facts are distinguished from open questions.
