Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Prominent Gowanus Site Changes Hands

Bjarke Ingels’ Wild Design for Gowanus Site Unlikely to Be Built by New Owners

An attention-grabbing design by prominent Brooklyn architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG, for a parking lot on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus seems unlikely to move forward now that the property has changed hands.

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A Prospect Lefferts Gardens Row House and More to See, Starting at $1.4 million

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Brooklyn Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, West Midwood, and Bay Ridge. They range in price from $1.4 million to $16 million.

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Park Slope Limestone With Designer Touches, Central Air Asks $6.7 Million

A design makeover of this Park Slope limestone was dubbed “a second youth” by the New York Times in the 1990s. Some of those touches remain in the interior of the single-family at 623 2nd Street, combined with original early 20th century details and more recent upgrades, like central air.

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Carroll Gardens Beaux-Arts Flat With Working Fireplaces, Laundry Asks $999K

All looks neat and orderly inside this Carroll Garden two-bedroom. The apartment requires a walk up to the fourth floor of 232 President Street, but in return it has in-unit laundry, wood-burning fireplaces, and a renovated kitchen.

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The Insider: Park Slope Townhouse Gut Mixes Preserved Details With Lively Decor

Antoin O’Duibhir worked as a carpenter when he first came to the U.S. from Ireland in the 1990s. By 2006, he and his wife, Kerry, an interior designer, had formed their own design-build company specializing in the renovation of historic houses. “Our very first brownstone, in Park Slope, was featured on the television series Billions,” O’Duibhir recalled. “It was my education in brownstones. I didn’t make a penny on the job, but I learned a lot.”

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