Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Colorful Renovation and an $11 Million Home

Creative Couple Transforms Crown Heights Wreck Into Colorful Family Home
As soon as Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner walked through the door of their Crown Heights brownstone in 2013, they knew it would be home. They also knew they had their work cut out for them — the house was a total wreck.

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Norah Jones Is Renovating Her Movie-Worthy, Landmarked Cobble Hill Carriage House
Famous musician and Bed Stuy native Norah Jones is renovating the sweet Pacific Street stable she bought last fall. The home’s gorgeous rustic interior is famous for a cameo in the film Eat, Pray, Love, but changes are afoot. When Brownstoner recently walked by the late 1850s Romanesque Revival-style home, it was immediately clear that something was going on — namely, a lot of construction work.

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Parking, Citi Bike, Food Hall, and Wi-Fi on the Shuttle: Renderings Revealed for Navy Yard
Wi-Fi on the free shuttle, additional Citi Bike stations, and tons of parking are just some of the goodies in the works to entice visitors and workers to the Navy Yard’s soon-to-open Building 77 and its food hall, anchored by Russ & Daughters, according to new details and renderings revealed by a new leasing document from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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Brooklyn’s Transparent, Holy Perimeters: The Many Eruvs of Kings County
If you’ve ever walked around Flatbush, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights, you probably haven’t noticed the small, thin extra wires suspended between the telephone poles that mark the spiritual perimeters for Orthodox Jews living within their boundaries.

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First of New Row, Giant Boerum Hill “Carriage House” With Terraces Hits Market at $11 Million
Don’t let the listing’s “carriage house” label give you the impression that 323 Pacific Street is old or quaint. Yes, the look of this decked-out home was inspired by 19th-century stables, but with a whopping 5,895 square feet of space, this newly built townhouse is vastly larger and dramatically more luxurious than the area’s average historic horse home. And, holy cow, has it got amenities to match its price tag.

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