Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Empire Stores Roof Opens, Bed Stuy Mural Threatened

Biggie Smalls Mural in Bed Stuy May Come Down as Landlord Looks to Renovate

A mural of a famous son of Brooklyn is set to be destroyed as the building on which it’s painted is prepping for renovation. The mural of Biggie Smalls that stands over the corner of Bedford Avenue and Quincy Street will come down because the landlord wants to install new windows, according to a report from DNAinfo.

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Highly Anticipated Empire Stores Is Now Open! And So Is the Brooklyn Historical Society Annex

Game-changing Dumbo development Empire Stores opened from roof to courtyard as the Brooklyn Historical Society cut the ribbon Thursday on their annex in the historic Dumbo complex, part of Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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Park Slope Duplex Co-op With Working Fireplaces, Four Bedrooms Asks $2.6 Million

This four-bedroom Park Slope co-op is airy and graceful, with original details and a newly renovated kitchen. It occupies the upper two floors of a North Slope brownstone, at 127 Park Place, near Flatbush Avenue, in the Park Slope Historic District.

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From Renovated to Needing Work, Four Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.35 Million

Seven figures is the price of entry among our open houses this weekend, or to be more precise $1.35 million, the price tag on the least expensive one. Among seasoned Brooklyn home hunters this will surprise exactly nobody. They include a pair of Flatbush freestanders, a Sunset Park brownstone, and a row house in East Williamsburg; two are ready to be inhabited, two need some work.

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New Williamsburg Townhouse With Floors From Domino Sugar Factory Asks $7.495 Million

This newly built townhouse in Williamsburg offers top-end finishes, modern design and an expansive single-family living space, for the kind of big-ticket buyer that would have been a stranger to this nabe not long ago. It’s at 138 North 1st Street, off of Bedford Avenue.

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