Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: "Design on a Dime" Comes to Brooklyn

Stunning Renovated Brownstone With Henrybuilt Kitchen, Other Modern Updates Asks $3.35 Million

Here’s a stunner of a brownstone for you, a renovated four-story Italianate at 370 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill that beautifully blends graceful original detail and modern updating.

In the “graceful original detail” department we’ve got parquet floors, lovely marble mantels, crown moldings, arched door frames, pocket shutters and the mahogany newel post and curved bannister on the central staircase.

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See Why Photographers Flock to This Corner of Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights (Photos)

While it will never compete with the Dumbo view of the Manhattan Bridge, surely the most Instagrammed shot in Brooklyn, a colorful stretch of Joralemon Street is one of the most photographed spots in Brooklyn Heights.

The lush greenery, a lamppost hung with flowers, and tutti-frutti multi-colored houses are catnip to Instagrammers. Located in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the block of Joralemon Street slopes gently in the direction of the waterfront, giving the 1840s Greek Revival houses at Nos. 35 through 43 a dynamic appeal.

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Celebrate Brooklyn Design and Score Some Deals at Housing Works’ First Brooklyn ‘Design on a Dime’

New York City charitable institution Housing Works will celebrate Brooklyn design and highlight its makers and interior designers when it brings its “Design on a Dime” event to Brooklyn for the first time this week.

Nineteen top designers, most from Brooklyn, will create one-of-a-kind room vignettes at Industry City in Sunset Park using custom, contemporary and vintage furnishings they have arranged to be donated for the event. All the items will be for sale, for as much as 80 percent off.

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The Insider: Architect Rethinks NoHo Loft to Bring on Light, Openness, Efficiency

During a number of years spent living in a 4,000-square-foot loft in a converted late-19th century factory building, the homeowners realized the developer’s original floor plan could be so much better. They hired Manhattan-based Drew Lang of Lang Architecture to thoroughly rethink it, in order to give them “more light and more openness,” the architect said, along with four bedrooms and three-and-a-half new baths for their growing family.

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Brooklyn Named America’s Least Affordable Place to Buy a Home

Everyone knows that Brooklyn is an expensive place to live. In fact, it’s the least affordable place to buy a home — anywhere in the U.S.

And, as you might expect, buying a home in the borough will cost you more money than you make in a year — if your income is about average.

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