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Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Navigating Brooklyn Heights in the 1930s

Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.

The guest bathroom will be classic with a vintage touch

by Craig Hubert

06/15/2019 0

Brownstone Boys: Tiles, Counters, and Hardwood…Oh My!

In the past five months a lot of demo and building has been going on, but the next few weeks are going to show the biggest transformation so far. Work is finally happening for the tiling, hardwood flooring, and plaster.

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Park Slope Co-op With Two Bedrooms, Built-ins and Trim in Neo-Classical Walk-up Asks $949K

A two-bedroom, one-bath co-op is for sale in an eight-unit circa 1900 Neo-Georgian walkup in the Park Slope Historic District. The apartment is on the second floor at 509 2nd Street and features plenty of woodwork, window and door trim and built-ins with egg and dart molding, fluting and classical motifs.

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856 st johns place — Photo by Russ Ross, courtesy of The Corcoran Group

Elegant Crown Heights Limestone With Palladian Windows, New Kitchen Asks $1.995 Million

This striking turn-of-the-last-century townhouse built by one of Brooklyn’s “lady developers” has an unusual graphic facade and a sparkling new kitchen and other updates that highlight its original features.

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