Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Parents and Kids Left in Lurch After Day Care Closes

Parents, Workers, Kids, Left Scrambling After Windsor Terrace Day Care Suddenly Shutters

A group of Brooklyn parents and workers are in the lurch after a day care owner’s death caused the shut down of the business, left staffers out of a job, parents out tuition fees, and children without a day care facility.
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Kushner’s Opulent 1844 Brooklyn Heights Townhouse on Monroe Place Could Set Record

Brooklyn Heights is well known for its precious historic mansions — and now one of them might be poised to set a new record for the priciest townhouse in the borough. The former Brooklyn Law School dorm now owned by Trump son-in-law and developer Jared Kushner, 27 Monroe Place, entered contract Tuesday. If it sells for its most recent ask, $16 million, it will eclipse 177 Pacific Street’s current record of $15.5 million.
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Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Skinny Houses and a Historic Home in Brooklyn Heights

This week’s top listings featured some modern dwellings, some very skinny houses and a 19th-century carriage house in Brooklyn Heights. They were strewn all over the borough, with multiple top listings in Bed Stuy and Flatbush. There was a huge gap in prices for the top listings this week – the cheapest home came in at $349,000 and the priciest was a whopping $10 million home.
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What’s Going on With Gowanus Green?
There’s been a plan in place to redevelop a six-acre plot of brownfield land along the Gowanus Canal at Hoyt and 5th streets for almost a decade, and if completed, it would bring hundreds of affordable housing units to an area that is now a polluted wasteland.
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8 of Brooklyn’s Most Expensive, Lavish Properties You Can Buy Right Now
In the market for your own compound in one of Brooklyn’s most prime areas? Or maybe you just like to window shop? Here are eight of the priciest, most luxurious properties currently for sale in Brooklyn.

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