Afternoon Links: Is Gowanus the Next Dumbo? Alloy Development Thinks Yes

In the News
I Was a Real Estate Agent in Gentrifying Brooklyn [Billfold]
Dumbo Developer Sets Its Sights On the Next Hot Brooklyn Neighorhood — Gowanus [Crain’s]
So, You Got Into the Brooklyn Half Marathon…Now What? [BK Mag]
Best-Selling Authors Buy $6.4 Million Brooklyn Heights Townhouse [NYP]
Closed Dumbo Record Shop Halcyon to Reopen in Williamsburg [BK Vegan]
Permits Filed for Two Buildings With 130 New Units in East New York [NYY]
Bar Seeking to Replace Bed Stuy Favorite Do or Dine Denied Liquor License [DNA]

Yesterday we suggested avoiding cheap-looking quarter round molding in your home — below, see how one reader made it look better after having it installed.

Comment of the Day

When I had a new oak floor laid in my kitchen the installers put in primed quarter round attached to the original baseboard. When I first saw it I was sorry I hadn’t specified a different profile moulding, but it looks fine painted the same color as the baseboard.

— Bob Marvin in What Is Quarter Round Molding?

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