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Dear Brownstoners, This is our first posting in this forum, we thought we might get a good idea on how to solve our problem with the help of the collective experience in this group. We have a brownstone in a landmarked district that has a violation related to the front stoop. Basically the original balusters…

My one year old has lead poisoning to the point where the city’s health department is involved. After much testing and concern, we determined that the main culprits are our windows, the outside of which are covered with flaking lead paint. We have been replacing them as we can come up with the money. We…

The info for this free event just landed in my inbox. Sounds fun. Brooklyn Safari: Saturday, April 30, 11 a.m. Starts at the Brooklyn Public Library steps, Eastern Parkway at Grand Army Plaza, co-led by landscape architect Marcha Johnson and Robert Arthur King, author of Animals in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City To…

Hi, We need to repair our cornice on our brownstone, which will entail repainting it. Our desire is to paint it to the original black (we believe this is the appropriately historical color). Do we need to get Landmarks approval for either or both of these scenarios? a) repair and repaint it, in the current…