Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: New Kosciuszko Bridge Debuts, a Park Slope Reno

Four Move-In Ready Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $749K

It’s going to be a warm one this weekend, and we all know what that means: your first chance this year to hit an open house in flip flops. If that doesn’t excite you, perhaps one or all of our open house picks will. They include a Bed Stuy brownstone, a freestander in Bay Ridge, a new reno in East Flatbush and a Clinton Hill row house built in 2000.

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An Adorably Snug Worker’s Cottage in Kinderhook Asks $165K

If you are looking to branch out of Brooklyn without breaking the bank, this worker’s cottage in Kinderhook, N.Y., might make just the right charming retreat. Located just a short stroll from several museums in the historic town, the little house at 4 Railroad Avenue is history at a diminutive scale.

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The Insider: Park Slope Gut Reno Brings Light and High Style to Narrow Townhouse

The recent renovation of this narrow Park Slope townhouse has all the signatures of Gowanus-based Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design: a clean, black-and-white palette that introduces new industrial elements and honest materials such as brick, steel and glass, while treating existing historic details with careful consideration.

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Pre-Civil War Boerum Hill Townhouse With Curved Steel Staircase, Skylit Spa Bath Asks $2.645 Million

This Boerum Hill Greek Revival townhouse is small and not cheap, but it offers a charming and distinctive space with some high-end finishes. At 112 Nevins Street in the Boerum Hill Historic District, the circa 1852 house was given an architectural makeover a short while back, and it sports a modern rustic interior that’s open and bright.

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New Kosciuszko Bridge Makes Its Big Debut at Opening Ceremony (Video)

Driving in on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1932 Packard, Governor Cuomo officially marked the opening of the new Kosciuszko Bridge on Thursday, April 27. New York City’s first new bridge in more than a half-century opened last week on the Brooklyn/Queens border, as the completed first half of the Kosciuszko Bridge reconstruction project was unveiled in a ceremony.

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