Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Bed Stuy Family in Housing Dispute Sees Belongings Trashed

Bed Stuy Family Watches as Possessions Thrown in Trash, Locks Changed in Alleged Deed Theft Case

Earlier this month, Salvanita and Moses Foster got a phone call. Someone was changing the locks on the Bed Stuy home they purchased in 1999 and had lived in until a 2019 fire. Their possessions were being thrown from the windows into the trash, the neighbor said.

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BQE to Close for Three Weekends, Around 20 Nights While Repairs Are Made on Cantilever

Sections of the BQE’s triple cantilever will be closed for three weekends between March and October next year while “emergency repairs” are made to areas around Clark Street, Grace Court and the Joralemon Street garage, Department of Transport reps told a community meeting on Wednesday night.

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Park Slope Brownstone Triplex With Mantels, Woodwork, Four Bedrooms Wants $10K

Among the glories of this upper triplex in a five-story Park Slope brownstone is an original bathroom with marble slabs and a striking stained glass window. There is also original woodwork, mantels, a laundry room and a second full bathroom.

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Woodwork-Filled PLG Brownstone With Passthrough, Built-ins Asks $1.985 Million

In the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District, this early 20th century brownstone has plenty of gleaming original woodwork, including in an original passthrough, along with some modern updates. The single-family at 204 Maple Street appears move-in ready with period details in fine repair.

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The Insider: Clinton Hill 13-Footer Gains Light, Function, Storage in Parlor-Floor Renovation

When architect Luca Farinelli of Manhattan-based BLD LAB Architecture first saw the exceptionally narrow four-story townhouse he was charged with renovating, one of a row of five designed by architect William B. Tubby and built in 1894, “it seemed sturdy and not in desperate need of being redone,” he recalled. But he soon realized why its owner of three years, a physician and mother of two teenage sons, who occupied the upper triplex and rented out the garden unit, wanted so badly to make the place more livable for her family and generally freshen things up.

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