Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Bay Ridge Century 21 to Be Razed

A Bay Ridge Semi-Detached With a Garage and More to See, Starting at $1.599 Million

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Clinton Hill, and Bay Ridge. They range in price from $1.599 million to $5.4 million.

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Bay Ridge’s Century 21 Building to Be Razed for New Retail Complex

Demolition of the long-vacant Century 21 site on 86th Street is set to begin in November, clearing the way for a $47.5 million redevelopment into a two-story retail complex called Century Marketplace, the property’s new owners confirmed to Brooklyn Paper.

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Bed Stuy Locals Want Girls High School Site Kept as Public Land, Not Apartments

Bed Stuy locals are pushing back on the city’s plans to sell the parking lot of the historic Girls High School to a developer to build an up to 16-story affordable housing development, saying the land should remain publicly owned and should be converted into a community green space.

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Living on Atlantic Avenue, the ‘Spine of Central Brooklyn’

People have lived on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue almost as long as there has been an Atlantic Avenue. It started out as a path leading to early settler Ralph Patchen’s farm and then became a road to the East River. Part of it became known as Division Street, as it was the informal border between the town of Brooklyn and South Brooklyn, which included today’s Red Hook, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods. The thoroughfare continued to agrarian Queens and was a vital part of Brooklyn’s growth, as goods and produce made their way to the harbor.

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The Insider: Considered Color Palette Makes Renovated Bed Stuy Townhouse Shine

Homeowners who love color often seek out Sarah Jacoby’s prolific Long Island City-based architecture and design firm for its fearless use of vivid hues. The new owners of an early 20th century bow-front row house — empty nesters thinking ahead about welcoming a new generation — “came to us because of color, and because they knew I wouldn’t want to rip everything out,” Jacoby said.

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