Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Market for Dumbo, Black Mayonnaise in Gowanus

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    First Look at Dumbo Grocery Store Two Trees Is Fashioning From Parking Garage

    It looks like Dumbo might be getting another grocery store, thanks to Two Trees. The parking garage at 66 Front Street — formerly a Park Kwik that, according to their website, did not give a parking discount to Two Trees employees — will be converted into a ground-level grocery store, according to DOB permits.

    Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Cobble Hill, Bed Stuy and Crown Heights

    Open House Picks: Four Brownstones to See This Weekend, Starting at $2.2 Million

    The leaves are turning brown, and so are our open house picks. Which is to say we’ve got four brownstones for you this weekend — exemplars of that most classic Brooklyn form — in various states of repair. They’re found in Cobble Hill, Crown Heights and Bed Stuy.

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    Get a Glimpse Inside the Rockefeller Country Estate, Yours for $22 Million

    If you do not have a spare $22 million to spend, you may have to settle for drooling over some fabulous photos instead — but these shots of the David and Peggy Rockefeller estate known as Hudson Pines are worth pouring over. Collectors of furniture, porcelain, silver and paintings, the Rockefellers furnished their homes with the fine pieces they collected.

    Brooklyn Apartments for Sale in Park Slope at 105 8th Avenue
    Park Slope Condo in Neo-Classical Tracy Mansion With Corinthian Columns Asks $4.2 Million

    This stunning three-bedroom condo sits in one of the Slope’s most distinctive properties — the Tracy Mansion, a neo-Classical marble palazzo built in 1912 for a tugboat mogul at 105 8th Avenue.


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    What Exactly Is the Black Mayonnaise at the Bottom of the Gowanus Canal?

    There are numerous mysteries about the Gowanus Canal. But the most baffling, not to mention terrifying, is the thick dark sludge that makes it way through the oily waters, that which has been called black mayonnaise.

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