The Insider: A New Townhouse in Cobble Hill That Feels Both Traditional and Modern “I want a row house that doesn’t feel like a row house,” Brendan Coburn’s client told him, as Dumbo-based CWB Architects, founded as a two-person shop in 1995 and now one of the borough’s leading firms for… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A New Cobble Hill Townhouse, Designing a Deck appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Weeksville Endangered, Design Shows to Catch
Breaking: Weeksville Heritage Center in Danger of Closing, Launches Crowdfunding Campaign The Weeksville Heritage Center is in danger of closing. It could happen as soon as July, according to an email sent today by the organization’s President and Executive Director Rob Fields. — Take in Some Interiors Inspiration at Design Shows During NYCxDesign… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Weeksville Endangered, Design Shows to Catch appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: BQE Plans Get a Hearing at a Brooklyn Heights Town Hall
A Redone Brownstone With Original Details and Three Other Houses to See, Starting at $1.5 Million This weeks’s open house picks are all 19th century row houses, ranging from a brick townhouse in Carroll Gardens with mostly mid-20th century updates asking $3.499 million to a Romanesque Revival brownstone in Bed Stuy… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: BQE Plans Get a Hearing at a Brooklyn Heights Town Hall appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Reader Restoration Diary, a Townhouse Transformation
The Insider: No-Compromises Gut Gives Cobble Hill Townhouse Window Wall, Dramatic Interior Volume When you have a wide-open brief from adventurous clients, creative architects at the top of their game, no serious budget constraints and, by the way, fine taste, here is the result: the complete transformation of an 1850s brick… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Reader Restoration Diary, a Townhouse Transformation appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Tea in Brooklyn Heights, A Brownstone’s Modern Update
Alice’s Tea Cup Set to Bring Its Whimsy to Brooklyn Heights This Spring A slice of wonderland is coming to Brooklyn this spring when quirky cafe Alice’s Tea Cup opens in Brooklyn Heights. The storefront windows of their new location at 43 Hicks Street are currently papered over as the work,… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Tea in Brooklyn Heights, A Brownstone’s Modern Update appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: New Looks in Design, a Hoboken Brownstone Reno
A Gauntlet of Italianates From Fort Greene to Greenwood Heights to See, Starting at $1.8 Million Let us now invite you to run a gauntlet of Brooklyn Italianates, that mid-to-late 19th century style of slightly cramped domesticity that brought ornate Italian palazzo-influenced details into residential design and construction somewhat tightened by… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: New Looks in Design, a Hoboken Brownstone Reno appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Frida Kahlo at Brooklyn Museum, Gothic in Bronxville
Romanesque Revival in Park Slope and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $850K You may be thinking at this moment, I vow to never go outside again. But we are assured that by Sunday, these open houses will present every opportunity to luxuriate in the open air again. — Sprawling… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Frida Kahlo at Brooklyn Museum, Gothic in Bronxville appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Chic Reno, Affordable Housing in Brooklyn Heights
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 23 Units in Brooklyn Heights, Starting at $596 a Month An affordable housing lottery has opened for 23 newly constructed units in the 20-story tower under construction on Montague and Pierrepont streets, just outside the historic district in Brooklyn Heights. — The Insider: On Deadline, Designers Pull Off… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Chic Reno, Affordable Housing in Brooklyn Heights appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Selling in Brooklyn
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Put Park Slope Brownstone on Market for $4.599 Million Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard are selling their Park Slope brownstone. The couple purchased the Italianate row house for $1.91 million in 2006. Located at 36 Sterling Place in the Park Slope Historic District Extension II,… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Selling in Brooklyn appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in Brooklyn Heights
Emily Blunt and John Krasinski Buy Entire Floor at The Standish in Brooklyn Heights for $11 Million Two more actors have joined Matt Damon in Brooklyn Heights. In fact, they are moving to the same building. — Wegmans Will Open in Brooklyn Navy Yard This Fall, Start Hiring 500 Next Month The highly anticipated… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in Brooklyn Heights appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Matt Damon’s New Pad, a Williamsburg Duplex Condo
Duplex Condo With Curved, Double-Height Window Wall in Williamsburg Asks $999K This two-bedroom duplex condo has two terraces and a lot of glass — most notably the dramatic double-height curved wall of windows in the living room that dominates the space. — Did Matt Damon Break Record With Penthouse Purchase in The Standish… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Matt Damon’s New Pad, a Williamsburg Duplex Condo appeared first on Brownstoner.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Matt Damon in Brooklyn Heights, a Glamorous Reno
Charming Prewar Two-Bedroom Co-op in Prospect Heights, Near Grand Army Plaza Asks $795K Here’s a prewar co-op in Prospect Heights that’s primely located just a half-block from Grand Army Plaza. It’s located at 274 St. Johns Place, in a circa 1913 brick building with 16 units, one of several built along… Read More >The post Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Matt Damon in Brooklyn Heights, a Glamorous Reno appeared first on Brownstoner.