Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Slave Theater Demolished, Historic Villa Hits Market
The Bed Stuy icon was demolished to make way for a new development.
The site after demolition in 2017. Photo by Seán Devlin
Slave Theater Demolished as Bed Stuy Icon Makes Way for Mixed-Use Development
The site of the Slave Theater, an icon in Bed Stuy whose sale and planned development has been the subject of many protests in the community, is inching closer to its newest iteration.
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Four Houses With Potential to See This Weekend, Starting at $539K
Our open house picks this weekend could all use work in varying degrees; some demand it, some merely request it. A mixed bag style-wise, they include a classic brownstone, a fully detached 20th century and a former commercial property. Points on the compass include Prospect Heights, Bed Stuy, Bushwick and Flatlands.
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Roomy Brooklyn Heights Co-op With Tin Ceiling, Slate Mantel Asks $1.3 Million
This attractive Brooklyn Heights co-op has some Victorian detail, good light and ample space for a family, with three decent sized bedrooms. It’s on the fourth floor of a self-managed five-unit building at 33 Willow Street, between Cranberry and Middagh.
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Historic Clinton Avenue Villa Hits Market as Tear-Down, Wants $7.9 Million
A historic Clinton Avenue house that has been in the same family for generations is on the market as a “prime development” site. A Brownstoner reader tipped us off to for-sale signs posted on the 1850s Italianate villa at 532 Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill. The wood-frame house is located just outside the Clinton Hill Historic District, and therefore unprotected.
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Colonial Revival With Craftsman Details on Historic Flatbush Cul de Sac Asks $1.499 Million
Here’s a charmer of a single-family house on a distinctive block. At 14 Martense Court in Flatbush, it’s one of 14 semi-detached brick homes on the cul de sac, which were built in one fell swoop in 1915 and 1916.
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