Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: An Elegant Reno for a Cobble Hill Mews House

The Insider: Tiny Cobble Hill Mews House Gets Elegant High-End Treatment in Major Overhaul

Just because a house is tiny doesn’t mean it can’t be elegant, as this shipshape, 11-foot-wide townhouse shows. The historic three-story mews house was selectively gutted and completely transformed, with both solo living and entertaining in mind, by Gowanus-based Elizabeth Roberts Architects (ERA) into a pied-a-terre for a California professional who travels to New York regularly for work.

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Worker Plummets to Death at Former Witnesses Dorm Construction Site in Brooklyn Heights

A construction worker died after falling several stories at a work site in Brooklyn Heights. Police and emergency personnel responded to the call and found the man lying unconscious on a second-floor terrace, according to the New York City Police Department.

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The Insider: Architects Expand Narrow Park Slope Townhouse With Kitchen Extension, Flowing Layout

The main challenge could not have been more obvious to Anshu Bangia of Carroll Gardens-based Bangia Agostinho Architecture and her clients, a Manhattan couple, when they first laid eyes on the three-story, 14-foot-wide row house. “It was super narrow, with dropped ceilings that made it seem even smaller and hallways that were like two feet wide. We were rubbing our elbows” on the walls, Bangia recalled.

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Former Downtown Brooklyn Woolworth’s Gets New Look, New Discount Store

The remake of the former Fulton Street F.W. Woolworth store is complete and the building, which once had a streamlined Art Deco limestone facade, is now wrapped in gray and bright blue panels and a new discount retailer has taken over the upper floor.
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Prospect Heights Neo-Grec With Pier Mirror, Five Mantels, Garage Asks $5.5 Million

You have to look past some bright green paint, but the interior of this Prospect Heights brownstone is filled with original details, including mantels, a pier mirror and wainscoting. At 137 St. Marks Avenue, the house also has a corner location with a garage and a triple-height bay window to bring some light into the interior.

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