Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Inside a Williamsburg Loft, Banishing Vermin During a Reno
Heights Home With Garage and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.499 Million This week...
Susan De Vries
Susan De Vries is the Photo and Research Director for Brownstoner. She has a background in historic preservation, historic site management, and research, and has a passion for photography, documenting 19th century architecture, and ferreting out fact from folklore.
From the Forum: Is it Too Late in the Season to Start Building a Deck?
In the works since the spring, construction work on a deck still hasn't started. Now that cold weath...
Three Hudson Valley Board-and-Batten Cottages, Starting at $398K
If you've seen Grant Wood's classic "American Gothic" painting then you've seen a board-and-batten h...
Preserve Your Family Legacy With an ‘Archives for Black Lives’ Workshop at Weeksville Heritage Center
The capturing of memories through storytelling and treasured artifacts is crucial in the preservatio...
A Bird’s-Eye View of Prospect Park South When It Was Young
Today it may be hard to imagine a time when the streets south of Prospect Park weren't gently shaded...
Daily Links: Giant Co-Living Space Is Coming to Williamsburg
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From the Forum: Deciding Whether to Patch or Replace a Roof
A roof is showing some age after ten years and a homeowner is trying to decide whether to go ahead w...
View Some Rarely Seen New York Films From the Brooklyn Collection in Celebration of Archive Week
The Brooklyn Collection is reaching deep into their archival drawers to pull out some celluloid trea...
From the Forum: When a Renovation Project Impacts a Neighbor
Renovators have been alerted that their brownstone project may have caused damage to a neighbor's ho...
Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Brownstones and Wood Frames
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a brick townhouse in Flatbush, an Italian...
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