Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Green-Wood Visitor Center Debuts

Brooklyn Heights Prewar With Sunken Living Room, Deco Bath Asks $825K

There is an abundance of closet space inside this prewar unit, along with details dating from the building’s Deco-era construction. Features include a sunken living room, a foyer, dining nook, and a bathroom with period tile and fixtures. Likely on the fourth floor, the one-bedroom apartment is in The Mansion House, the six-story 1930s apartment building at 145 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, within walking distance to shops and parks.

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City Deems Fort Greene Manse Unworthy of Protection as Demo Looks Imminent

A last ditch attempt by the public to save the butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene’s South Oxford Street through landmarking appears futile.

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has determined, for a second time in its history, that the eye-catching wood frame house at 158 South Oxford Street does not meet the criteria for landmark status due to what the commission says are extensive alterations.

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A Clinton Hill Brownstone and More to See, Starting at $3.5 Million

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Clinton Hill, Ditmas Park, and Fort Greene. They range in price from $3.5 million to $5.495 million.

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Green-Wood Cemetery Opens Long-Awaited Visitor Center

Since the late 19th century, the Victorian glass-and-copper greenhouse has been a jewel on the corner of 5th Avenue and 25th Street in Greenwood Heights, known for its eye-catching onion dome and iconic mesh signage. But by the 2010s, the future of the deteriorating structure — with its frame failing, window panes missing, and plants long gone — seemed less than secure.

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Towering Bjarke Ingels-Designed Gowanus Complex Preps for Foundation Work

Nearly unchanged for more than a decade, a prominent but long inactive site in Gowanus is moving forward after a change of owners and plans. The new design by starchitect Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG, for a much bigger and taller building will dramatically change the corner of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street, rising steeply at the edge of the sidewalk across from Whole Foods and obscuring the landmarked canal-side Powerhouse Arts.

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