Crown Heights Renaissance Revival Townhouse Owned by Design-Savvy Couple Asks $1.975 Million
The house appears pristine inside and out, with attractive original floors and woodwork, a pier mirror, fireplace, and modern kitchen and bathrooms.
From the Forum: Getting Rid of the Critter in the Ceiling
A noisy creature has taken up residence in a ceiling of their house and homeowners are looking for advice.
Brownstone Boys: Let’s Get Lit — Blending Modern Lighting With 130-Year-Old Details
Fast forward 130 years and our modern light fixtures are hanging from the same medallions where original fixtures hung.
Bringing Back the Patterned Glory of the Endale Arch in Prospect Park
If you have passed by the Endale Arch in Prospect Park without even noticing it, the 19th century designers of the park would perhaps not be offended.
Daily Links: Fighting Development, Greenest Block Winners Unite to Landmark Flatbush Row Houses
In the News
- Homeless Students in Bensonhurst and Beyond Let Us Into Their Lives [NYT]
- Bookmobile’s Cousin Teaches Brooklyn Library Patrons to Cook [NYT
- Flatbush Residents Hope to Save Historic Character by Landmarking Block [Eagle]
- Coney Island Businesses Face Massive Rent Hike [BK Paper]
- Speed Cameras Coming to Coney Island School Zones [BK Paper]
- Report: Brooklyn Borough Hall Ceiling Collapse Was Avoidable [Gothamist]
- TF Cornerstone Reveals Renderings for Pacific Park Buildings, Park [Curbed]
Delve Into the History of Brooklyn’s Lost Barren Island With the City Reliquary Museum
Learn more about the community of Barren Island with a lecture at Williamsburg’s shrine to the unusual.
Prewar Two-Bedroom With Dining Room in Finnish Co-op Overlooking Sunset Park Asks $710K
This top-floor walkup in a 1925 building is bigger than the typical Sunset Park apartment and has a bank of windows overlooking the park.
Red Hook’s Lidgerwood Complex and the Importance of Our Industrial History
Preservation and landmarking efforts have mostly concentrated on residential and civic architecture and not our our rich industrial heritage.
It’s Just a Heights One-Bedroom Reader Renovation Diary: We Pull the Trigger
We didn't get the second bedroom on our wish list, but there's a walk-in closet and parking.
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Two Units in Ocean Hill for $899 a Month
Both apartments are studios, set at an area median income range of 60 percent.
Daily Links: Greenpointers Vow to Crack Down on Late-Night Noise, Backyard Bars
In the News
- The Secret Behind the Viral Broadway Junction Churro Seller Video [NYT]
- Greenpoint Residents Are Fed Up With Noisy Nightlife [Eagle]
- Brownsville Man Faces Life in Prison for Mass Shooting: DA [BK Paper]
- Land Use Gurus Stall Crown Heights Rezoning [BK Paper]
- Real Estate, Mayor Against Commercial Rent Control Proposal [Gothamist]
- Push to Integrate Brooklyn Schools Shows Results: Data [Chalkbeat]
- Acclaimed Artist KAWS Pays $17 Million to Expand Williamsburg Studio [TRD]
- Renderings Revealed for Five-Story Building on Grand Street in ‘Burg [NYY]
- Rabsky Files for 65-Unit Building in Columbia Street Waterfront District [NYY]
