Municipal tree pruning has been suspended for the past year in Brooklyn and Queens because the city dropped its contractor following its principals being formally charged in an insurance scam, a Parks Department spokesperson confirmed to Brownstoner sister pub Brooklyn Paper.

The nugget was tucked deep in the Mayor’s Management Report, a 500-page compendium of city agency performance over the past year, released on Friday afternoon. The report notes on page 144, in the Parks Department section, that while funding for tree pruning had been restored in Fiscal Year 2022 following Covid-era cuts, the program still was axed owing to

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Midwood, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights. How did they fare?

This Midwood detached house is a modest brick Tudor in need of a creative eye, but it does offer some nice early 20th century details, four floors of living space and a garage at a price under the million dollar mark. The exterior of the 15-foot-wide house at 1216 East 28th Street has the details typical of the small Tudor-style dwellings built in Brooklyn in the 1920s and 1930s,

HS2 Ltd has been granted an “extensive” injunction along the length of the high-speed line from London to Crewe to help tackle unlawful protests.

The order makes going onto HS2 land without permission or disrupting work a potential contempt of court – the offense of ignoring a judge’s ruling.

It will not only apply to identified protestors but to “persons unknown”.

HS2 welcomed the court judgment and said it was “not intended to stop legitimate protest”.

A High Court judge sitting at Birmingham’s Civil Justice Centre, Mr Justice Julian Knowles, said the injunction struck “a fair balance between the rights

By many accounts, we are still in a seller’s market.

Home prices continue to rise in nearly all of the US even as mortgage rates climb ever higher. Inventory levels – typically used by housing economists to gauge whether the market is favoring buyers or sellers – place the country squarely in a seller’s market.

But even with a mere 3.3 months’ supply of housing – nearly less than half of what would be considered balanced – homebuilders are struggling to sell homes. Builder sentiment fell for the ninth straight month in September, according to the National Association of Home

A house in Carmichael that sold for $600,000 tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Carmichael in the last week.

In total, 6 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $501,500. The average price per square foot was $317.

The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of Sep. 12., even if the property may have been sold earlier.

1. $338,000, condominium in the 3900 block of

It seems the major has made up his mind. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will stay, necessary repairs will be made, and the administration hopes to mitigate the “racism built into our infrastructure,” as he put it, by creating parks and plazas under the highway.

The new plan, consisting of two parts dubbed BQE Central and BQE North and South, will tap national funding available thanks to the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The decision was slipped into an announcement Friday of a forthcoming community engagement process.

At one time, Brooklynites debated getting rid of the highway altogether, as other cities have