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Hi all,

We are new to the idea of brownstone living (but very interested). We’ve seen an interesting property that we’d like to convert from a 3 family to a 2 family. The ground floor would need very little change, but we’d need to add an internal staircase into the 2nd floor (which is now a separate unit). We’d also need to remove the kitchen in the 2nd floor unit and move some walls around to set it up to be the master bedroom. The other half of the 2nd floor (2 bedrooms) will be relatively untouched.

I’m trying to get a ballpark on this type of conversion. I have called a contractor but they are unwilling to give me numbers. But does anyone have any rough guidelines on how much it costs to do this type of conversion?

I’m talking VERY rough estimates just to get an order of magnitude (like under $50k, bewteen $50-100, over $100k, etc.

Thank you!

Also, if anyone can point me to the recent forum posts that discuss Atlantic Yards and the pros/cons of this project on Prospect Heights and Fort Greene, that would be very helpful!