Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: LPC Approves Building for Park Slope Lot

Fort Greene Brownstone With Seven Mantels, Central Air Asks $7.5 Million

At 11 South Oxford Street, the grandly scaled brownstone still has some impressive period details like marble mantels, pier mirrors, and wood floors while a renovation has given it a modern country style kitchen, updated bathrooms, and a palette of soothing paint colors.

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A Renovated Carroll Gardens Row House and More to See, Starting at $750K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Sunset Park, and Sea Gate. They range in price from $750,000 to $5.295 million.

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Petite Boerum Hill One-Bedroom With Wood Burning Fireplace Asks $599K

Packed into this compact co-op unit in Boerum Hill are some features that might appeal, including in-unit laundry and a wood burning fireplace. The second-floor one-bedroom is one of eight units in the walk-up building at 262 Bergen Street.

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Landmarks Approves New Apartment Building for Vacant Park Slope Lot

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved a sleek six-story apartment building, which nods to the neighboring historic architecture, for a long-vacant site on Park Slope’s 7th Avenue at a meeting on Tuesday.

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A Surprise Visit on Clinton Avenue

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, early in April 2023, as my wife Dana was cooking some matzo ball soup and I was hovering nearby, we saw an all too familiar sight outside our apartment’s kitchen window — a gaggle of folks chatting by the building’s front yard and wrought iron fence. No doubt it was one of the many walking tour groups making the rounds in Clinton Hill to see its historic landmarked houses on the tree-lined streets.

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