Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Pushy Real Estate Investors and Bold, Quirky Interiors
Letter Urges Williamsburg Homeowners to Sell Due to “Major Correction” A Brownstoner reader who lives in Williamsburg was incensed to receive a letter urging him to sell his townhouse. “It makes my blood boil,” he told Brownstoner. These solicitations are a dime a dozen. But this one, from a Manhattan-based real estate investment and management…
Letter Urges Williamsburg Homeowners to Sell Due to “Major Correction”
A Brownstoner reader who lives in Williamsburg was incensed to receive a letter urging him to sell his townhouse. “It makes my blood boil,” he told Brownstoner. These solicitations are a dime a dozen. But this one, from a Manhattan-based real estate investment and management firm, claims market conditions have led to a “major correction” in the New York real estate market and “property values have seen a major decline over the past six months.”
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The Insider: Park Slope Brownstone Has Room for Bold Accents and Quirky Details
This may be the only townhouse in Brooklyn with a room dedicated to a urinal, entered via swinging saloon-style doors. “It’s the kind of thing you can do when you have 6,000 square feet,” said Elizabeth Roberts of Ensemble Architecture.
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Rents vs. Incomes: Even Wealthy New Yorkers Fear Rising Rents in Brooklyn and Beyond
Even wealthy New Yorkers fear they will be priced out by the city’s rising housing costs, a NY1 and Baruch College’s City Poll found. Affordable housing is now New Yorkers’ number one concern, according to the poll.
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How Master Builder Robert Moses Transformed Brooklyn as We Know It
More than anyone else in recent history, Robert Moses shaped the physical infrastructure of Brooklyn. We drive on his roads, stroll through his parks, live in his housing developments and are surrounded by his influence at every turn. From the 1920s through the late ’60s, Moses molded New York City like clay, creating a legacy of projects that are greatly used, while being loved, hated and controversial, even today.
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Lofty Boerum Hill Townhouse With High-End Renovation Asks $4.995 Million
Eyeball the front parlor of 243 Dean Street, with its marble mantle, wide-plank floors and foliate crown molding, and it looks like a standard-issue Boerum Hill townhouse, albeit quite a nice one. Move farther into the home, though, and it’s a dramatically different story.
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