Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Restoring a Brownstone, Affordable Housing in Clinton Hill

The Insider: Prospect Heights Brownstone Restored, Updated with Italian Modern Kitchen

A gem of a brownstone, fairly dripping with detail, was “basically a time capsule” with the exception of an “ugly ’70s kitchen,” said Dumbo-based, Milan-trained Deborah Mariotti, who works as an architect in her native Italy and as an interior designer in the U.S.

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Massive Affordable Lottery Opens for 114 Units in Clinton Hill, Starting at $896 a Month

Last week, an affordable housing lottery opened for 114 newly constructed units in two separate nine-story buildings. One is located at 909 Atlantic Avenue, the other at 1043 Fulton Street. Together, according to the lottery listing, they are called the Athena Apartments.

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East Flatbush Edwardian With Pool and Three More to See, Starting at $840K

Here are houses on the sparser end in terms of historical detail, with prices starting at $840,000 in Midwood and going up to $3.4 million for a four-story limestone Italianate with three units in Park Slope. A couple on view in Greenpoint and East Flatbush are brick with some nice neo-Classical mantels inside.

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Distinctive House in Sunset Park South With Five Mantels, Clawfoot Tub Asks $1.555 Million

A three-story townhouse in Sunset Park has street character and an unusual amount of well-preserved original details on the interior. It’s located in the new Sunset Park South Historic District, one of the four landmark districts approved earlier this year.

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The Insider: Brooklyn Architect Builds a Compact Upstate Getaway, Pond View Included

It was the presence of a lovely pond that sold architect Kyle Page on twenty undeveloped Catskills acres on which to build a weekend house for his young family. “Twenty private acres balances well against the size of the space we live in in the city,” a 12-foot-wide row house in Clinton Hill, said Page, the founding principal of Sundial Studios, a boutique architecture firm based in Dumbo.

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