Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Childs Restaurant Restored, a Deluxe Brownstone Reno

Spacious Park Slope Brownstone Brimming With Original Detail, Two Kitchens Asks $5.995 Million

Here’s a deluxe residence — a sprawling Park Slope one-family rich in original detail that’s been thoroughly renovated and restored, and is quite the looker. It’s a Romanesque Revival brownstone dating to 1893, at 178 8th Avenue in the Park Slope Historic District.

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Four Distinctive Houses to See This Warm Weekend, Starting at $1.9 Million

We’ve got four distinctive properties on view this weekend, each interesting in its own way, each ready for inhabitation. And you could hit all of them on a moderately strenuous bike ride. There’s a grand renovated limestone in Park Slope, a 19th-century frame house in Boerum Hill, a newly rebuilt modern townhouse in Greenwood Heights, and an artist’s abode in Red Hook.

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The 1920s Seaside Splendor of Childs Restaurant Returns to Coney Island

After decades of neglect and failed development plans, the 1920s Childs Restaurant at 3052 West 21st Street in Coney Island is once again gleaming and open for business thanks to a major restoration effort and its transformation as part of the Ford Amphitheater complex.

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Ditmas Park Edwardian With Six Mantels, Wraparound Porch, Garage Asks $3.85 Million

Here’s a Ditmas Park Edwardian with a ton of space, some fetching details and a sweet wraparound porch. Dating back to 1903, it’s in the Ditmas Park Historic District, at 444 East 17th Street, at the corner of Ditmas Avenue.

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Brooklyn Real Estate Listings Six Months Later: Three Homes Sold, One in Contract

This week, we’re taking a look at four listings — including a carriage house that was a former zebra crash pad in Cobble Hill and a spacious prewar co-op in Park Slope — to see how they’ve fared on the market six months on.

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