Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Clinton Hill Reno Fuses Old and New

A Shingle Style Dwelling in Yonkers’ Historic Park Hill Neighborhood, Yours for $949K

It isn’t as sprawling as some of the more exuberant dwellings in the Park Hill neighborhood, but this Yonkers dwelling has well-preserved interior details, and an unexpectedly intriguing social history, including a connection with a lifelong communist and presidential candidate.

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A Designer’s Mod Bed Stuy Row House and More to See, Starting at $999K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Fort Greene, Bed Stuy, Ditmas Park West, and Gerritsen Beach. They range in price from $999,000 to $3.75 million.

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Marine Terminal Plan for Skyscrapers in Red Hook Passes

After five previous delays, the 28-member Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) task force, chaired by U.S. Representative Dan Goldman and co-chaired by state Senator Andrew Gounardes and Council Member Alexa Avilés, voted 20 to 8 on September 22 to redevelop 122 acres of one of Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial waterfronts.

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The Insider: Clinton Hill Brownstone Reno Synthesizes Historic and Contemporary Design

Every vintage row-house renovation presents its unique challenges. For Palette Architecture, a mid-sized firm based in New York and Los Angeles, which reimagined a multi-unit brownstone as a single-family home for a couple with two children, these began with the layout.

Rather than open up the parlor floor entirely, the client and homeowner — lighting and furniture designer Jason Miller, who founded the contemporary lighting company Roll & Hill — wanted to “keep the spaces separate for different functions,” said Jeff Wandersman, one of three founding partners at Palette Architecture. “It’s a pretty narrow townhouse. We went through some early iterations where we opened up the walls, but that took us further away from the original structure and layout, and we came back to the idea that wasn’t right for this project.”

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Crown Heights Townhouse With Woodwork, Crown Moldings Asks $3.5 Million

Part of an impressive Romanesque Revival row, this Crown Heights townhouse is filled with woodwork, mantels, interior shutters, and other period details alongside some modern updates. The rear parlor now incorporates a sleek kitchen and there are new skylights on the top floor, a mini split system, and updated mechanicals. The house at 1219 Dean Street sits within the the Crown Heights North Historic District.

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