Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Remembering a Park Slope Tragedy

Remembering the Park Slope Plane Crash on Its 55th Anniversary
Fifty-five years later, there is nothing to immediately suggest that the intersection of Park Slope’s Sterling Place and 7th Avenue has born the brunt of more than a Brooklyn street’s typical quantity of death and tragedy. Yet, just over a half century ago to the day, 134 people perished in a hailstorm of flaming wreckage, drowning the neighborhood’s now historic brownstones in an onslaught of bodies and jet fuel. At the time, the Park Slope Plane Crash, as it came to be known, was the U.S.’s deadliest commercial aviation accident.

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Bed Stuy Brownstone With Pool, Movie Theater Asks $1.995 Million
This newly renovated Bed Stuy brownstone offers something you don’t see every day — a swimming pool. And not one of those low-rent above-ground round numbers, either, but an actual in-ground heated swimming pool in the rear, laid out with stone-tile decking and a white canopy.

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The 9 Most Gorgeous Brooklyn Homes Sold in 2015
With the year soon coming to a close, we thought it time to take a look back at some of the most exquisite and impressive homes sold in 2015. Bed Stuy and Park Slope townhouses with drool-worthy original details dominate our list. But there are a few remarkable modern spaces thrown in.

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Killing a Pedestrian No Big Deal in Brooklyn? Driver Walks After Fatal Fort Greene Crash
The unlicensed driver who sped onto a Fort Greene sidewalk Sunday, killing 30-year-old Victoria Nicodemus, will face only a $500 fine and 30 days in jail — if that. While Christmas shopping with her boyfriend, the late Nicodemus, her 37-year-old boyfriend, and a 75-year-old man were plowed down by 39-year-old Marlon Sewell, who swerved his Chevrolet SUV onto the curb at a high speed to avoid hitting a B25 bus.

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Hundreds of Brooklyn Renters to Get Payback From Overcharging Landlords
Landlords have been overcharging tenants in thousands of Brooklyn apartments, according to a report from the office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. Is your building on the list? The landlords were overcharging tenants in apartments that should have been rent stabilized in exchange for the 421-a tax break. The landlords got their money. But then they charged market-rate rents.

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