Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Lightscape Opens at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.

Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will bring dozens of beautiful displays, like “Sea of Light” by ITHACA Studio, to the garden this month. Photo by Kat Gollock. Courtesy Sony Music
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Set to Shimmer With the Return of ‘Lightscape’
The sprawling lawns and lush gardens of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will become a glittering winter wonderland with the return of Lightscape on November 17.
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Bay Ridge Mid-Century Co-op With Hardwood Floors, Updated Kitchen Asks $329K
A modest and relatively affordable Bay Ridge one-bedroom appears to be in move-in condition, with original hardwood floors and light on two exposures. It’s on the fourth level of 302 96th Street, a six-story, 122-unit brick apartment building that may have opened around 1951 — the date on an old temporary certificate of occupancy.
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Woman Who Claimed Abandoned East New York House Fights Investors for Possession
Ten years ago Sybil Green, who goes by the name Tami, was biking down a stretch of Jackie Robinson Parkway’s residential frontage road, which connects Vermont Street in East New York with Highland Park, when she noticed a house that looked in disrepair, with a door ajar and a bright orange notice pasted on the front.
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Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 299 Units Near Coney Island Boardwalk, From $410 a Month
An affordable housing lottery has opened for 299 apartments in a 100 percent affordable development rising on Coney Island’s Surf Avenue, overlooking the Brooklyn Cyclones’ home ground, Maimonides Park.
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A Row House in Williamsburg and Three More to See, Starting at $975K
Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, and East Flatbush. They range in price from $975,000 to $3.9 million.
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