Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Pacific Park's First Affordable Units, Coignet's New Look

Gowanus’ Landmarked Coignet Stone Building Unveiled After Whole Foods Renovation [Photos]
Gowanus’ iconic Coignet Stone Building — on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street — just underwent a stunning $1.3 million restoration that has brought new life to the once-crumbling landmark. The former showroom for the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company, the building is New York City’s first known instance of concrete construction.

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Pacific Park Affordable Units Next to Barclays Center Available Starting at $559 a Month
The lottery opened this week for the first affordable units in the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park mega-development. Nestled right up against Barclays Center, the eye-catching red building at 461 Dean Street, otherwise known as B2, is the tallest modular tower in the world.

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Blowing Out the Back Wall and Creating Farmhouse Flair in a Cobble Hill Brownstone
Talk about a fixer-upper. When children’s clothing designer Odette Williams first set foot in her future home — an 1880s brownstone in Cobble Hill — she knew it had seen better days. Converted into a four-unit apartment building decades before, the home’s lower floors had remained vacant for years. And looked it.

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Homey Brick Boerum Hill Townhouse With Glass-Walled Extension Asks $2.475 Million
This three-story brick townhouse on Bond Street in Boerum Hill is on the diminutive side — the original structure is a mere 20 by 28 feet, according to PropertyShark. There’s an extension on the back though, and the small proportions give it a cute homeyness — a “cozy country feeling,” the listing calls it, and that doesn’t seem too big a stretch.

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Actors Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser Sell Brooklyn Heights Penthouse for $1.32 Million
Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel and her Mad Men husband Vincent Kartheiser (the couple met on the set of Mad Men) have sold their penthouse duplex at the Montague in Brooklyn Heights.

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