The Insider: Partial Reno Gives Classic Brooklyn Heights Row House Lofty Space, Luxe Details
Among the results of this just-short-of-gut renovation: an airy, lofty parlor floor, a luxe master dressing room, all-new baths and a gorgeous mudroom.
Salvation Army Shuts to Make Way for Apartments Replacing Francis Kimball’s Clinton Hill Gem
The building's beautiful brickwork and Venetian-inspired windows and stripes will likely not survive a plan to transform it into apartments.
Daily Links: Kensington Residents Push for Safer Streets After Ped Deaths
In the News
- All-Women Hasidic EMT Group Denied Bid for Ambulance in Borough Park [NYP]
- Commercial Rent ‘Stabilization’ Bill Terrifies Real Estate Industry [NYP]
- Kensington Demands Street Safety Changes Amid Bloody Year for Peds [BK Paper]
- Local Pols Pledge $11.1 Million to Revitalize Marine Park [BK Paper]
- National Grid Gas Nightmare: Bed Stuy Family Without Heat [CBS]
- Brooklyn Raccoons Rack Up Subway Delays [The City]
- DOB Backs Off Order for Q Train Neighbors to Inspect Subway Walls [The City]
- Avery Hall Pays $30 Million for Gowanus Gas Station Site [TRD]
- OMA’s Tetris-Like Towers Break Ground at Greenpoint Landing [Curbed]
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.
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.
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.
