Sunset Park Finnish Co-op With Original Built-in, Dining Room Asks $630K Here’s a Sunset Park classic, a two-bedroom in a Finnish co-operative that has a flexible layout and a renovation that brought back a bit of its original flair. It’s in one of the earliest co-ops constructed in Brooklyn, at 826… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Food Bazaar Heads to Red Hook appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Renovated Brownstones and a Hidden House
Hidden House With Wide Plank Floors, Secret Garden, Art Studio in Gowanus Asks $2.695 Million With the main dwelling set back at the rear of its lot and a hidden courtyard garden, this single-family home has a quirky character that fits into the raffish charm one finds in Gowanus. On a… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Renovated Brownstones and a Hidden House appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Building Collapse in Williamsburg, Horizontal Fences
Hidden House With Wide Plank Floors, Secret Garden, Art Studio in Gowanus Asks $2.695 Million With the main dwelling set back at the rear of its lot and a hidden courtyard garden, this single-family home has a quirky character that fits into the raffish charm one finds in Gowanus. On a… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Building Collapse in Williamsburg, Horizontal Fences appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Creative Brooklynites and Their Homes
11 Brooklyn Creatives Make a Townhouse Their Own Here are the stories of 11 creative Brooklynites and their families who took on the renovation and decoration of an historic Brooklyn townhouse and adapted it to suit their own modern lives. Each property posed its own challenges — including rentals, one that… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Creative Brooklynites and Their Homes appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Can a Mini Split System Heat as Well as Cool?
Coney Island Lit Up for the First Night of Macy’s Reimagined 2020 Fireworks The first of several nights of July 4 fireworks lit up the skies of Coney Island Monday, across from the red, white, and blue Steeplechase Parachute Jump. — Crown Heights Tenants Say Prominent Brooklyn Couple Tried to Illegally Evict Them Tenants… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Can a Mini Split System Heat as Well as Cool? appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Striking Clinton Hill Interior, History of the Bathroom
Striking Art and Playful Inventiveness Create Comfortable Clinton Hill Home A designer’s home is both her calling card and her workshop, but the most important thing, at least to Delia Kenza Brennen, is that it feel like home — a place where she, her husband, and their two daughters can be… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Striking Clinton Hill Interior, History of the Bathroom appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing in Williamsburg
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 29 Units in Williamsburg, Starting at $1,101 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 29 newly constructed units in a seven-story building at 187 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. — Live Your Dollhouse Dreams in This Petite Cold Spring Cottage, Yours for $499K If you are drawn to… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing in Williamsburg appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Backyard Design, Affordable Housing in Greenpoint
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 31 Units in Greenpoint, Starting at $1,288 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 31 newly constructed units in an eight-story building at 12 Eckford Street in Greenpoint. The building, constructed after a number of lots were combined, is known as the 470 Manhattan… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Backyard Design, Affordable Housing in Greenpoint appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Serene Park Slope Apartment, Planning for a New Fence
The Insider: Serene Vibe, Farmhouse-Style Kitchen Transform Park Slope Railroad Apartment One of the owners of a vintage row house, which had long been a down-at-the-heels rental building, chose the bright top floor as a home for herself and her two children. She hired Warwick, N.Y.-based designer Elizabeth Aurandt of Mercer… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Serene Park Slope Apartment, Planning for a New Fence appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Gage & Tollner Readies for Opening in March
Massive Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 176 Units in Brownsville, Starting at $367 a Month A massive and actually affordable lottery has opened up for 176 units at 672 Powell Street in Brownsville. It is the first phase of long-gestating Ebenezer Plaza, which will, in total, result in four buildings across… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Gage & Tollner Readies for Opening in March appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Broker Fees Nixed on Rentals, Property Tax Proposal
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 75 Units in East Flatbush, Starting at $1,721 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 75 units in an eight-story building at 310-350 Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush. — Mayor Commission Wants to Raise Taxes on Brooklyn Brownstones As the city quietly raises townhouse taxes across Brooklyn,… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Broker Fees Nixed on Rentals, Property Tax Proposal appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: The Luxury Condo Boom Transformed Brooklyn
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 20 Units in Brownsville, Starting at $571 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 20 newly constructed units in an eight-story building at 212 Hegeman Avenue, between Watkins Street and Mother Gaston Boulevard, in Brownsville. — How the Rise and Fall of the Luxury Condo Building… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: The Luxury Condo Boom Transformed Brooklyn appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Restoring Woodwork, Affordable Housing in Brownsville
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 20 Units in Brownsville, Starting at $571 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 20 newly constructed units in an eight-story building at 212 Hegeman Avenue, between Watkins Street and Mother Gaston Boulevard, in Brownsville. — Robert A.M. Stern-Designed Mansion Tops Out in Midwood A huge one-family… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Restoring Woodwork, Affordable Housing in Brownsville appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Brookyn Heights Designer Showhouse Opens
A 21-Story Tower Is Starting to Rise Above a Prominent Corner in Downtown Brooklyn Even by the standards of Downtown Brooklyn, where buildings seem to sprout up like weeds in a garden, the future 21-story building bound by Boerum Place, Red Hook Lane and Fulton Street is moving rather quickly. — Brownstone Boys:… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Brookyn Heights Designer Showhouse Opens appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Demo in Downtown Brooklyn, Reno in Park Slope
A Future Mayor’s Victorian Mansion in Park Slope and Three More to See, Starting at $1.35 Million From the stately Park Slope former townhouse of reformist 1910s Mayor William Gaynor with imposing woodwork to a more humble bow-fronted row house in Bay Ridge with details and potential, these open houses peek… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Demo in Downtown Brooklyn, Reno in Park Slope appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Vivid Art in a Clinton Hill Brownstone, a Fort Greene Reno
The Insider: Every Object Tells a Story in Fort Greene Brownstone Lovingly Decorated by Owner James Deaver is not a professional designer; he’s an attorney. But that didn’t stop him from hands-on planning a major renovation of his beautifully intact circa 1870s brownstone, then confidently decorating with antiques and vintage modern… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Vivid Art in a Clinton Hill Brownstone, a Fort Greene Reno appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Fort Greene Reno, Clinton Hill’s Hot Bird Demolished
The Insider: Every Object Tells a Story in Fort Greene Brownstone Lovingly Decorated by Owner James Deaver is not a professional designer; he’s an attorney. But that didn’t stop him from hands-on planning a major renovation of his beautifully intact circa 1870s brownstone, then confidently decorating with antiques and vintage modern… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Fort Greene Reno, Clinton Hill’s Hot Bird Demolished appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Restoring a Brownstone, Affordable Housing in Clinton Hill
The Insider: Prospect Heights Brownstone Restored, Updated with Italian Modern Kitchen A gem of a brownstone, fairly dripping with detail, was “basically a time capsule” with the exception of an “ugly ’70s kitchen,” said Dumbo-based, Milan-trained Deborah Mariotti, who works as an architect in her native Italy and as an interior… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Restoring a Brownstone, Affordable Housing in Clinton Hill appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing, Brooklyn’s Greenest Block
Are These Bed Stuy Apartments Starting at $2,100 a Month Really Affordable? An affordable housing lottery that stretches the idea of affordability has opened for three newly constructed units in a four-story building at 1032 Dekalb Avenue in Bed Stuy. — Park Slope’s Park Cafe Diner, Longtime 7th Avenue Staple, Suddenly Shutters Park Cafe,… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing, Brooklyn’s Greenest Block appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Domino Rising, Amy’s Bread Opens New Heights Spot
Second Building in Massive Domino Development in Williamsburg Nearing Completion The exterior of the second building in the ever-growing Domino development in Williamsburg is getting close to the finish line. — Well-Preserved Bay Ridge Townhouse With Stained Glass, Fancy Dining Room Asks $1.275 Million An early 20th century bow-fronted brick row house is located… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Domino Rising, Amy’s Bread Opens New Heights Spot appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Ingenious Ideas in a Designer’s Cobble Hill Rental
The Insider: Designer Conjures Style in Cobble Hill Rental With Ingenious, Inexpensive Ideas In six years as an associate at Gensler, the behemoth global architecture firm where he developed concepts and strategies for major corporate clients, and five more years designing residences for private clients at some of Manhattan’s toniest addresses,… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Ingenious Ideas in a Designer’s Cobble Hill Rental appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A New Park for Williamsburg, an Unfortunate Renovation
New Low in Townhouse Design? A Brownstoner reader sent in this photo of a renovated wood-frame townhouse close to the corner of Bedford Avenue in Bed Stuy with the comment “a new low in townhouse design.” — The Insider: Historic Hoboken Firehouse Transforms Into Light-Hearted Bachelor Pad Hoboken’s Engine House No. 5, built in… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A New Park for Williamsburg, an Unfortunate Renovation appeared first on Brownstoner
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Skinny House For Sale, a History of the Bathroom
Where to Watch Fourth of July Fireworks in Brooklyn (2019 Edition) One of the biggest questions each Fourth of July concerns where the best place might be to see the fireworks. Where are the biggest crowds? How early do I have to arrive to see anything? Is the spot kid friendly?… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Skinny House For Sale, a History of the Bathroom appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Curved Tower Coming to Dumbo, a Park Slope Reno
Curved Tower Will Rise on Former Jehovah’s Witnesses Lot Next to Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo A tilted, glassy tower is coming soon to Dumbo, where it will be wedged between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. — Would You Pay $5.5 Million to Live in Shipping Container Luxury in Williamsburg? The slanted, corrugated… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Curved Tower Coming to Dumbo, a Park Slope Reno appeared first on Brownstoner.