Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Room for People, Not Horses

Building of the Day: 49-65 Meserole Street

When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, I’d want to be here. What a bunker this is! Ironically, this fortress was designed by an architect who gained great international acclaim for his advancing of the practice of contextual architecture. More on that in a minute.

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Greenwood Heights House Gets Modern, Airy Redo, Pietra Cardosa Counters, Three Exposures

This Greenwood Heights townhouse — on a quiet block near Greenwood Cemetery at 344 22nd Street — has been completely renovated, with virtually everything new, from the redone facade in front to the newly installed lawn in the rear. It appears to be a flip, but the renovation seems to have been undertaken with some care, and it’s a nice-looking house for those after a modern-ish look.

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Open House Picks: Four Houses With Historic Details to See This Weekend, Starting at $975K

The mercury may hit 90 today, and summer technically doesn’t end for a couple weeks still, but practically speaking, when Labor Day passes and school revs up again it’s fall. Which means sweatshirts and crisp apples are around the corner — and it means the house market is picking up after the doldrums of August. So there’s more to see this weekend if you’re house hunting, and we’ve got four picks for you, in Carroll Gardens, Williamsburg and Bed Stuy.

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Park Slope Manse With Pool, Roof Deck, Details Galore on Park Block Asking $6.7 Million

This Renaissance Revival-slash-neo-Classical townhouse at 26 Montgomery Place in Park Slope is quite the grand residence. Landmarked and located on a park block, it’s huge, loaded with period details in stellar condition, and offers some modern amenities the 19th-century builders of the house never considered, like a roof deck and an in-ground pool.

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Room for a Horse: The Charm of the Carriage House

Scattered throughout Brooklyn Heights are delightful remnants of the horse age. Surviving carriage houses, like the one located 151 Willow Street, attract photographers and are targets of extreme real estate envy. Many of the remaining Brooklyn Heights carriage houses were built in the 1860s to 1880s as horse stables, later converted to garages with the transition from horse to auto, and are now coveted dwellings.

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