Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Demo Looms for Fort Greene Wood Frame

Mid 19th-Century Fort Greene Manse to Be Demolished for New Apartment Building

The days appear numbered for the striking butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene’s South Oxford Street, with developers applying to raze the attractive wood structure and replace it with a five-story apartment building.

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Sunset Park Limestone With Mantels, Rumpus Room Asks $1.595 Million

This Sunset Park row house hasn’t changed hands in decades and there are some distinctly later 20th century renovations, like a basement rumpus room, along with original mantels, fretwork, and wall moldings. At 566 47th Street, the two-family sits within the Central Sunset Park Historic District.

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Sunset Park Finnish Co-op With One Bedroom, Wood Floors Asks $375K

This compact Sunset Park one-bedroom is modest, but it does have wood floors, picture rails, and appears move-in ready. It is on the third floor of the walk-up building at 521 41st Street, also known as No. 531.

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The Insider: Cohesive Finishes Unify Bed Stuy Townhouse Reno

A round of renovations in a three-story townhouse — encompassing a reimagined garden floor, 3.5 new baths, and a brand new staircase — began with a poetic concept for the garden-level kitchen. True, it had little counter space and an inefficient layout, which was especially irksome for the new homeowner, a professional chef. But more than that, said architect Justin Oh, a partner with Ericka Song in Studio Oh-Song, a young Bed Stuy-based architecture and design firm whose first completed Brooklyn project this is, the main aim of the redo was to “create a new identity that spoke to the client’s tastes.”

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Brownstoner’s Top 10 Insiders of 2025

Each week Brownstoner columnist Cara Greenberg provides an inspirational look at interior design and renovation in homes across the borough, from prewar apartments to brownstones. Each Insider column, which has appeared on Brownstoner since 2011, offers a tour of a finished project with details on layout decisions, finishes, and decoration.

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