Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Leverich Towers Hotel Reno, New Restaurant Downtown

See Inside Brooklyn Heights’ Historic Leverich Towers Hotel, Set to Open to Seniors in March

Private equity firm Kayne Anderson Real Estate is aiming for a March opening for the highly anticipated conversion of the Leverich Towers Hotel at 21 Clark Street into a high-end assisted living facility for seniors, the firm and its partners said Tuesday.

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Four Early 20 Century Century Brooklyn Houses With Vintage Details to See, Starting at $949K

Here we have a group of early 20th century houses in Windsor Terrace, Bay Ridge, and Marine Park, all under $2 million, including one under a million. They include a well-maintained 1920s brick row house in Windsor Terrace at the high end, asking $1.6 million.

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X’ian Famous Foods Opens in Downtown Brooklyn

Xi’an Famous Foods has unveiled an outpost in Downtown Brooklyn. Located at 54 Willoughby Street, between Jay and Lawrence Street, the space had its soft opening Tuesday, with plans for a grand opening Friday, November 1.

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Brisket Brothers Opens in Former Habana To-Go Spot on Fulton Street

Habana To-Go, a takeout and delivery branch of Cafe Habana that stands across the street from their noisy, perpetually busy Habana Outpost in Fort Greene, is no more.

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The Insider: Gut Reno Brings Warm Minimalism, Loft-Like Feel to Clinton Hill Brownstone Duplex

This classic 19th century brownstone had been denuded of nearly all original detail when architects Andrea Fisk and Jess Thomas Hinshaw of Greenpoint-based Shapeless Studio, only two years old but already with some 30 projects in its portfolio, were hired to do a gut renovation of the garden and parlor floors for new homeowners.

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