Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Landmarked Passive House & Katz's in BK

Gap Between Manhattan and Brooklyn Closes: Katz’s Will Open in Downtown BK
Don’t fuggedaboutit — Katz’s Delicatessen really is coming to Brooklyn. Arguably New York’s most iconic deli, the 127-year-old restaurant is expanding from its Lower East Side stronghold to open an outpost at City Point’s DeKalb Market Hall, the company confirmed this week. (In April, the deli said it was considering it.)

How Do Brooklyn Elementary Schools Measure Up? Sunset Park School Tops City Math Scores
In a new ranking of New York’s elementary school programs, Sunset Park’s P.S. 172 Beacon School of Excellence was the only Brooklyn school to make the top five for test scores. The Brooklyn exception among high-scoring Manhattan schools, 90 percent of P.S. 172’s students qualify for free lunch and almost 80 percent of the school’s students are Hispanic — yet 81.5 percent of the school passed the ELA, and 100 percent of testers passed the math exam, according to DNAinfo.

How a Heights Brownstone Became Brooklyn’s First Passive-Certified Landmarked Home
Though currently a hot commodity, brownstones aren’t known for their energy efficiency. “It’s amazing how much money is spent just heating building materials,” Michael Ingui, Partner at Baxt Ingui Architects, recently told Brownstoner. But that’s no longer the case in at least one newly renovated townhouse — the first passive-certified, landmarked home in Brooklyn.

Beastie Boy Mike D Sells Cobble Hill Townhouse for $5.548 Million
No Sleep Till — you get over ask? Not so for Mike D and wife Tamra Davis, who just sold their Cobble Hill townhouse at 148 Baltic Street for $5,548,000. The final sale price was $102,000 under their original $5,650,000 asking price.

This South Slope Duplex Loft Is Big Enough for a Game of Floor Hockey
This third-floor walkup duplex at 459 12th Street in the South Slope has what you want in a loft: towering ceilings, cavernous spaces and giant windows. If you’re down on exposed brick, though, this isn’t the place for you — it’s dominated by a massive wall of it.