Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: An All-Night Philosophy Marathon and Affordable Housing

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    Crown Heights Duplex Condo With Radiant Floor Heating, Private Yard Asks $1.949 Million

    This three-bedroom condo is brand new, sited in a freshly constructed three-unit townhouse at 949 Pacific Street in Crown Heights, where a vacant lot sat not long ago. It’s a duplex, 1,573 square feet, on the house’s two lower floors. There’s an open plan living space on the bottom, with the kitchen in front. The living room opens up to the backyard via a pair of sliding glass doors; a floating, glass-paneled staircase leads to the bedrooms upstairs.

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    Luxe Heights Carriage House With Radiant-Heated Patio, Glass-Walled Penthouse Asks $10 Million

    Here’s a distinctive domicile — a 19th-century Brooklyn Heights carriage house on coveted Grace Court Alley that’s gotten a thorough and modern renovation, presumably with no expense spared, by the architecture firm Baxt Ingui.

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    Join an All-Night Marathon of Philosophy and Debate at Brooklyn Public Library

    If you’ve ever wanted to spend the night among the stacks at Brooklyn Public Library, you’re in luck.

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    The Insider: Salvaged Materials, Quirky Finds Star in Architect’s Own Greenwood Heights Digs

    About five years ago, Eric Safyan was browsing the South Slope real-estate listings when he spotted one for an old frame house, two stories high and 25 feet wide.

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    Rendering by Greenland Forest City Partners

    Rendering by Greenland Forest City Partners

    Lottery for Latest Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards Build to Bring $503 Studios to Prospect Heights

    It’s been a long time coming, but 303 nicer-looking-than-average affordable units at 38 6th Avenue in Prospect Heights will be up for grabs starting Friday. Part of the controversial Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards development, the 100 percent affordable building will bring dozens more units to market at once than the typical affordable 80/20 launch — and the renderings show swanky market-rate-style amenities as well.

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