Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Designer Showhouse Returns to Brooklyn Heights This Fall

Live in Norman Mailer’s Former Heights Aerie With Bookcases, Terraces, Views for $8,500 a Month

This singular penthouse with sweeping views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty at one time served as Norman Mailer’s writing studio, where he wrote “The Executioner’s Song,” back when he owned the entire Greek Revival house at 142 Columbia Heights. When he took the circa 1840s Brooklyn Heights brick house co-op in 1977, the top floor became his apartment.

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The Insider: Architect’s Own South Slope Row House Grows Up and Out, Prioritizes Energy Saving

It sounds a bit like something out of an old folk tale, but architect Michelle Krochmal of Brooklyn-based Filament Architecture Studio and her husband spent months scouring Brooklyn neighborhoods from Greenpoint to Ditmas Park before finding a home a block from where they were already living in the South Slope. They’d bought a small house there in 2009, but as their two children became teens, they felt increasingly cramped.

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Prospect Heights Brownstone With Six Fireplaces, Dumbwaiter, Central Air Asks $4.85 Million

This 1890s brownstone offers an abundance of space, period details in fine condition and modern amenities like central air and updated wet rooms. In the Prospect Heights Historic District and just a short walk from Grand Army Plaza, 294 Park Place is unusually well preserved and recently renovated.

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Celebration and Dance Fill Crown Heights Streets for Return of West Indian Day Parade (Photos)

The West Indian American Day Parade came thundering back Labor Day with the resounding beat of drums and dancing in Brooklyn on Monday to celebrate Caribbean culture.

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Third Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse Set to Open This Month

After a pandemic delay, the third Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse will debut this month. Designers are busy putting finishing touches on the Greek Revival townhouse at 145 Columbia Heights before the transformed spaces are unveiled to the public on September 23.

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