Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Housing Lottery in East New York
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A Brooklyn Heights Studio, a Crown Heights Row House
The most popular listings on Brownstoner include a carriage house in Cobble Hill, a row house in Bay Ridge and a standalone in Prospect Park South.
A Marine Park Deco-Era House With a Garage and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $725K
Our selections for open houses to see this weekend include two houses in need of work and two in move-in-ready condition.
A Cozy Cottage Near Downtown Cold Spring Can Be Yours for Under $400K
Likely built as a worker's dwelling in the 19th century, this petite cottage has charm in its compact size and is a short distance away from the amenities and transit in Cold Spring, N.Y.
Brooklyn Library’s Night of Ideas Returns With Shorter, Virtual Event on January 28
The six-hour “virtual exchange of ideas" will feature a number of talks, panels and musical performances and part of a larger global event.
Daily Links: The Highest City COVID Positivity Rates Are Currently in Three Brooklyn Neighborhoods
In the News
- Bar Owners in Brooklyn and Beyond Try to Make Drinking in Cold Fun [NYT]
- 20-Story Bushwick Development Planned Atop Former Community Garden [BP]
- Preservationists Say DoBro Art Proposal Ignores Abolitionist History [BP]
- Three Southern Brooklyn Nabes Lead City in COVID-19 Positivity Rates [BP]
- New Lawsuit Seeks Damages for Protesters Hurt by NYPD Officers [Gothamist]
- Police Charge Man Who Allegedly Murdered Brownsville NYCHA Seniors [amNY]
- Bed Stuy Food Pantry Gets $125K Through New Grant [Patch]
- Dollar Jackpot Takes 10K Square Feet in Downtown Brooklyn [CO]
- Community Group Looks to Halt Demolition of Flatbush Bank Building [Bklyner]
- State Proposes Zoning Override for Residential Conversions [TRD]
- $6.5 Million Fort Greene Townhouse Sale Breaks Neighborhood Record [TRD]
No-Fee Floor-Through in Park Slope Brownstone With Crown Molding Asks $3,500 a Month
Set on the third floor of an 1870s brownstone, this floor-through unit offers a flexible layout and a location on one of the leafy, low-scale streets within the Park Slope Historic District.
City Planner Turned Developer Seeks Variance to Put Up 15-Story ‘Model Block’ in Red Hook
The complex would bring apartments, offices, light manufacturing, restaurants and art spaces to the historic waterfront neighborhood.
Thinking of Buying a Brooklyn Brownstone or Townhouse? Watch This Free Video First
Watch the free Brownstoner webinar, "Brownstones and Townhouses 101" and get insider tips on navigating the process of buying in Brooklyn.
How Many Truly Affordable Units Could the Controversial Gowanus Rezoning Actually Create?
We are in the middle of a housing crisis, unemployment is at record highs and many are struggling to pay rent.
Daily Links: Positive COVID Cases Shut Down Three More Bed Stuy Schools
In the News
- Borough Park Synagogue Pulls Off Massive, Apparently Legal Wedding [NYP]
- Economic Mobility Plan to Bring Job Training to Southern Brooklyn [BP]
- New York Desperately Awaits Details on Federal Aid [Gothamist]
- Park Slope Restaurateur Henry Goldberger Dies at 95: Report [Patch]
- Coronavirus Cases Close More Bed Stuy Schools [Patch]
- An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red Wall [Curbed]
- Brooklyn-Based Artist Imagines City Transformed by Climate Change [AD]
- Bankrupt Clinton Hill Rentals Look to Escape Rent Regulation [TRD]
- New Renderings Reveal the Collective’s Flagship in Williamsburg [NYY]
