Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Bed Stuy Mansion Gets a Demolition Reprieve
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
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In Surprise Move, Landmarks Saves Beloved Bed Stuy Mansion From Imminent Demise
The 122-plus-year-old Jacob Dangler mansion at 441 Willoughby Avenue was calendared by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in a last-minute, surprise move that could prove a huge victory for local residents and preservationists who have been fighting to save the building from a pending demolition.
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Architect’s Prospect Heights Brownstone With Mural, Pier Mirror, Mantels Asks $3.799 Million
The architect who once called this 1870s Prospect Heights brownstone home isn’t a 21st century starchitect, but 19th century Brooklynites who followed the building up of the borough would certainly have recognized his name. George L. Morse, a prolific architect behind the design of commercial structures, churches and residences, lived at 613 Carlton Avenue from its construction until his retirement to Connecticut around 1907.
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A Wood-Filled Park Slope Brownstone and Three Others to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.1 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Bay Ridge. They range in price from $1.1 million to $4.5 million.
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The Insider: Electric Meter Runs Backwards in Stylish, Energy-Saving Bed Stuy Townhouse
In transforming their typically drafty, energy-inefficient 1889 row house into an exemplar of the latest in energy-conservation thinking, husband-and-wife architects Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston of CO Adaptive Architecture took the long view. “We fortified the building to last another 130 years,” said Mandl.
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Brooklyn Heights Library Opens in Sleek New Digs at Base of Condo Tower
The Brooklyn Heights library has once again opened its doors on Cadman Plaza West, in airy new quarters on the first floors of a newly built 36-story luxury condo tower, rather than in its former low-slung mid-century modern 1962 building.
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