Your Complete Guide to Applying for Affordable Housing in NYC
Affordable housing does not have to be a pipe dream — many potential contenders don’t realize they’re eligible and, even more frequently, don’t know how to apply.
A Guide to Brooklyn’s Best Family-Friendly Halloween Events
Costume bought? Trick-or-treat ready? Here are Brooklyn’s spookiest family-friendly events this Halloween season, for optimal creepy fun.
Researching Your Old House: How to Find Original Brooklyn Row House Blueprints
What did your Brooklyn row house look like originally? What year was it built? Who was the architect? Was it a two-family, one-family or something else? These are all questions original blueprints can answer. You may want to know because you are renovating, you have a passion for old houses, you are a new owner or you’re just curious.
Finding your original blueprints requires some legwork, ingenuity and persistence, as Brownstoner reader chemosphere recently discovered when researching his house in Flatbush.
He posted about the process, what he found and questions about the 100-year-old shorthand he was trying to decipher in a few separate posts in the forum. He has kindly allowed us to use those posts and the pictures of the blueprints he found to discuss in more detail how to find and read your original blueprints.