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February 17th, 2026
Daily Links: Mayor Revives Protected Bike Lane Project in East Flatbush
- A Friendship Built on Keeping the Dim Sum Carts Rolling [NYT]
- 18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold [NYT]
- A Night at Bad Bunny’s Favorite NYC Bar in Williamsburg [NYP]
- Mamdani Restores Multiple Street Redesigns Killed By Adams [Streetsblog]
- One Person Injured By Fire In Long-Vacant Ocean Hill Home [BP]
- Reunion Has Officially Closed in Williamsburg [Greenpointers]
- NYC’s Alternate Side Parking Dance Is on Hiatus [Gothamist]
- Throwing, Sweeping, Drinking With a Brooklyn Curling Club [Gothamist]
- Brooklyn School First in NYC to Heat With Vegetable Oil Biofuel [CBS]
- Storage Lets Couple Thrive in Just 320 Square Feet in Greenpoint [AT]
- New York City Rents Climb Back Toward Record Highs [TRD]
- The Daily Dirt: A Rockrose Development Grows in Brooklyn [TRD]
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Aha longevity stairs ! Ok maybe thats what the owners where going for and of course on can install those bulky escallator stair climber thingys as needed. However I am with Putnam though, aging-friendly housing isn't only an American concept and is in fact now code in new construction through out European cities. Oh well great stuff still Cara and thanks for the goodies over the years ( yep I remember Casacara :)
The Insider: Greenpoint Townhouse Flexes to Evolve With Growing FamilyAs a longtime parishioner at historic St. Boniface next door, all I can think is, there goes the light for our OTHER stained-glass windows. We already lost the first side to the ugly high-rise on the corner. What a sleazy bait-and-switch those poor little houses turned into. They will be tiny ground-level masks for another monument to greed and ugliness. LPC, for shame.
LPC Might Allow Tower That Doesn’t Gut Duffield Street HousesGood ole downtown Brooklyn meant so much to me as a kid. My maternal grandmother — whom I lived with! — was born in a house on Atlantic Ave. in 1901. Thanks again for sharing.
Suzanne Spellen’s Tales of Brooklyn History and Architecture in 2025This 2019 Brownstoner open houses story has some info about 47 Chauncey. At one point, it was gutted shell with two marble mantels. Then it was renovated and went on the market in 2019. I wonder if any of the houses in the row still have their original moldings and other details. https://www.brownstoner.com/real-estate-market/brooklyn-open-houses-for-sale-crown-heights-greenpoint-bed-stuy-gravesend-historic-district/
Building of the Day: 43-47 Chauncey Street