From the Forum: Getting Light While Keeping Privacy in a Garden Apartment
A homeowner is looking for advice on getting the maximum amount of light into a garden apartment.
Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Vivid Art in a Clinton Hill Brownstone, a Fort Greene Reno
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
A Future Mayor’s Victorian Mansion in Park Slope and Three More to See, Starting at $1.35 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend include the former Park Slope home of a New York City mayor and a more humble bow-fronted row house in Bay Ridge with details and potential.
Revel in Global Food, Lights, Colorful Art at the Hello Panda Festival at Citi Field This Winter
Head to Citi Field this winter, where bright lanterns, international cuisine and cultural arts will collide.
Brooklyn Real Estate Six Months Later: Three Sold, One Still Available
This week, we look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago, focusing on homes in Park Slope, Borough Park, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens.
Here’s What to See at the 8th Annual Photoville Festival in Dumbo
The Photoville Festival kicked off and our sister publication Brooklyn Paper has some suggestions on how to spend your time at the eight day festival.
Daily Links: Thousands of Residents of Fort Greene’s Ingersoll Houses Are Lacking Hot Water
In the News
- A New Tower Opens on the Domino Site in Williamsburg [NYT]
- Pols and Stores Want Scaffolding out of Brooklyn Bridge Park [Eagle]
- Applebee’s Is the Latest Coney Island Business to Fold [BP]
- L Train Delayed for Third Day in a Row [BP]
- Task Force Proposed as NYCHA Redevelopment Looms [Gothamist]
- Exploring Brooklyn’s ‘Unknown, Overlooked’ Corners [Curbed]
- Thousands of NYCHA Residents Without Hot Water in Fort Greene [Patch]
- Bed Stuy Pizzeria Erupts in Flames, FDNY Says [Patch]
- Residents Issue Cease and Desist to Halt Homeless Shelter [Bushwick Daily]
- Fort Greene Brownstone Becomes a Growing Family’s Sanctuary [Dwell]
- Climbing Gym MetroRock Clambers Up to Williamsburg [CO]
- Home Energy Management Startup Moving to Downtown Brooklyn [CO]
- Dumbo’s New Development Deluge [TRD]
Luxe Condos With Suburban-Urban Waterfront Lifestyle at Henley on Hudson Nearly Sold Out
An upscale condominium complete with spectacular Hudson River and New York City views, resort-style amenities, and an easy commute is quickly approaching sell-out.
Space Oddity, Carroll Gardens Studio ‘Carriage House’ With Parking, Storage Asks $3,250 a Month
Located in one of the most parking-constrained neighborhoods in the borough, the rental could be useful to an artisan or small-business owner who needs materials storage and a place to park a loaded truck overnight.
Urban Business Owners Find Talent, Tax Breaks and Quality of Life in the Hudson Valley
Are you upstate curious? Call the Ulster County Office of Economic Development and ask about the basics.
