Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Locals Scramble to Buy Bed Stuy Mansion

Bed Stuy Locals Race to Buy Historic Stuyvesant Avenue Mansion as Sale Looms

A group of Bed Stuy residents is scrambling to take community ownership of a historic early 20th-century mansion on Stuyvesant Avenue following a court-ordered sale, organizing to form a community land trust and raise millions of dollars to buy and repair the property before it is sold to a private buyer.

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Brooklyn Got Two New Historic Districts, But No Individual Landmarks in 2025

Brooklyn had another slow year for landmarking in 2025, with no new individual landmarks designated. The borough did, however, gain two new historic districts.

Both districts, located in Flatbush, were designated unanimously by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in November, expanding protections for blocks south of Prospect Park that preservation advocates have long sought to see designated. The new Beverley Square West and Ditmas Park West historic districts bring the area’s total number of historic districts to five.

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Prospect Heights One-Bedroom With Sleek Kitchen, in-Unit Laundry Asks $775K

In addition to upgrades for modern living, this renovated Prospect Heights apartment has some style nods to its 1930s origin. On the top floor of 55 Eastern Parkway, the move-in-ready unit has a sunken living room, a dining gallery, wood floors, and a vintage yellow tub.

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Bay Ridge Prewar One-Bedroom With Wood Floors, Deco Details Asks $379K

In an Art Deco building in Bay Ridge, this one-bedroom is relatively modest, but has potential with wood floors, a practical layout, storage space, and some period details. It is on an upper floor of 145 95th Street and just a block from the green space of Shore Road Park.

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The Insider: All-Out Carroll Gardens Reno Creates Home to Last Generations

“This was your typical Brooklyn brownstone. It had a lot of lives before my clients got there,” said architect Michael Ingui, who spearheaded a thoroughgoing renovation of the four-story building for a creative couple with two children. “They bought it a number of years ago knowing it needed a lot of work. It had been chopped up into rentals, and the goal was to do it the right way, and create a house that would last for generations.”

Manhattan-based Ingui Architecture, with Alyssa Kargl as project manager, carried out the monumental task, resulting in an owner triplex on the two lower floors plus the cellar, with two rental units above. Among the major elements of the job: restoring the front and rear facades; new mechanicals, including central air; a new interior stair in the owner apartment; all-new baths and a custom kitchen; replacing the rear wall with glass on the parlor and garden levels; and new flooring throughout.

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