Afternoon Links: Brooklyn Borough Prez Changes Mind on Heights Library Sale

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All Small Homeowners Might Get a $400 Tax Break From City [NY Post]
Borough Board and BP Adams Vote to Approve Heights Library Sale [BK Paper]
A Brooklynite Remembers Fort Greene in the ’90s [Curbed]
Applewood Restaurant Closes Suddenly After 11 Years in Park Slope [DNA]

There’s a gold, gleaming new condo building on Pacific Street and opinions have been polarizing. Read on for one reader’s thoughts on the blinged-out development.

Comment of the Day

Like this, in the photo, at least. Sort of has a deco texture along with a sophisticated European vibe. Love the bling in the middle of relative drabness and the way the warm, dimensional brass plays against the hideous silver/gray-glass-and-aluminum-skin look that’s ubiquitous now.

— chestnut in This Passive-House Boerum Hill Condo Building Looks Like It’s Dipped in Gold

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