Buy Your Sweetie an Empty Lot in Newark for $1000; Inside Brooklyn’s First Net Zero Condo Building
- The city of Newark has announced a “Valentine’s Day Land Sale” of 100 city-owned empty lots at $1,000 apiece. [Brick Underground]
- Tour R-951, Brooklyn’s first net zero-capable solar-powered passive house condo building in Prospect Heights. [Inhabitat NYC]
- First look at the hotel planned for the huge hole near the Lorimer stop. [Curbed]
- A controversial plan to toll East River bridges is back, and this time with more muscle. Known as Move NY, the funds generated by the initiative could be just enough to fund the MTA’s $15 billion capital-plan deficit. [Crain’s]
Images: Downtown Newark (L); The exterior of R-951. © Inhabitat (R)
