Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: 'Talk Stoop' Home for Sale, a Visit to an Old Brooklyn Bar

Cat Greenleaf Places Boerum Hill ‘Talk Stoop’ Home on Market for $2.95 Million

It appears as though NBC’s ‘Talk Stoop’ might be moving to a new filming location.

‘Talk Stoop’ host Cat Greenleaf has placed her Boerum Hill home at 12 Wyckoff Street on the market for an initial ask of $2.95 million. Greenleaf, whose show features interviews with celebrity guests on the stoop of her house, has been filming the show at her home since 2009.

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Drink to the Ghost of Brooklyn Past at One of the Borough’s Oldest Bars, the Brooklyn Inn

The Brooklyn Inn is one of Brooklyn’s oldest bars. Opened in 1885, it stands at the corner of Bergen and Hoyt streets in Boerum Hill.

It’s got a ton of history, exhaustively detailed in the book Hoyt and Bergen Streets by Joel Shifflet.

A local architect, he became fascinated with the bar’s design as well as the story of the place. The self-published effort, which features historic images of the bar through the years, can be purchased at the Brooklyn Inn.

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Classic Loft in Former Bed Stuy Chocolate Factory With Green Roof Asks $825K

This one-bedroom loft has a couple of distinctive features, including a curved iron stairway that leads up to the lofted bedroom and a custom-built “disappearing closet” with banks of retractable bookcase-like shelving units. It’s in the former Chocolate Factory, a converted industrial building at 689 Myrtle Avenue in Bed Stuy, which now houses 45 units instead of pumping out sweets.

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Prospect Lefferts Gardens Brick Townhouse With Mind-Blowing Ceilings Asks $1.375 Million

You don’t see ceilings like this every day, especially in an otherwise fairly typical early 20th neo-Classical brick townhouse at 292 Parkside Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. One has ornate plasterwork; the other is hand-painted. (Perhaps a decorative painter and plasterer once lived there?)

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Explore Brooklyn’s Oldest House, the Wyckoff Farmhouse, From Attic to Cellar (Photos)

While many houses are enthusiastically proclaimed to be one of the oldest in Brooklyn, the honor actually goes to a modest farmhouse in East Flatbush that is considered to be the oldest structure in New York City. The Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, now known as the Wyckoff House Museum, has been enlarged, altered and restored over the decades, but its humble beginning as a small one-room structure from the 17th century can still be detected.

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