Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: The Crown Heights Spice Factory Faces Demo

Step Inside a Vintage Electric Light-Bath Cabinet in a Bronxville Tudor, Yours for $1.995 Million

Wrapped in old world style, this Bronxville stone Tudor still has some of the amenities that would have attracted a 1920s house hunter, including a bathroom in the latest Art Deco style complete with a contraption that promised therapeutic benefits.

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End Nears for Crown Heights Spice Factory as Developers Seek Demo Permit and New Rezoning

In a surprise twist, after a failed Crown Heights rezoning whose resulting 39-story towers and their shadows would have threatened the nearby Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the same developer is back and, unexpectedly, is now seeking a new rezoning to build 14 stories on the property. At the same time, a new owner is moving ahead with plans to demolish the site’s historic Spice Factory building.

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Dixon Puts Ornate Bed Stuy House With Luxe Reno on Market for $2.995 Million

An elaborate row house and one-time wreck before it was restored and updated by Australian real estate investment firm Dixon is back on the market. Located at 259 Decatur Street in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, the pale stone Renaissance Revival house was built in 1895 and designed by noted architects Axel Hedman and Magnus Dahlander.

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Brooklyn Real Estate Listings Six Months Later: Three Sold, One in Contract

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Bay Ridge, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope. How did they fare?

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19-Story Apartment Tower Climbs on Nursing Home Site in a Largely Low-Rise Area of Bushwick

Walking in the triangle created by Myrtle and Bushwick avenues and Stanhope Street in Bushwick, it’s impossible to miss the 19-story high-rise that has quickly gone up on the parking lot of a Cedar Street nursing home. The new build, topped out but still covered in scaffolding, protrudes into the skyline. Overshadowing its mostly two- to four-story neighbors, it is one of the neighborhood’s tallest buildings.

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