Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Bed Stuy Block Wins Prize, Spielberg Films in Brooklyn
Popular stories this week included a look at an iconic piece of Bay Ridge architecture and a trip upstate to the house of a suffragette.
Spielberg Spotted Filming in Brooklyn Heights This Week
Some Instagrammers spied Steven Spielberg filming his new project “The Papers” in Brooklyn Heights this week. The political drama, centered around the battle to publish the Pentagon Papers, stars Tom Hanks as Washington Post editor Bed Bradlee and Meryl Streep as publisher Katharine Graham.
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A Suffragette Restores Her Dream Home, an 18th Century Stone Cottage in Kingston, N.Y.
Tired of renting, in 1919 suffragette, home economist, writer and lecturer Annie Eliza Pidgeon Searing began hunting for her dream cottage, ending up with a decaying 18th century stone cottage in Kingston, N.Y. She embarked on a restoration adventure at a time when interest in all things early American was high and “ancient” houses were being rediscovered.
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The Story Behind Bay Ridge’s Famous Gingerbread House and How It Came to Be
Sometimes it can be hard for a creative person to be defined by only one work, but when that one work makes you a household name, who can argue? For James Sarsfield Kennedy, a gifted architect working in the early 20th century, that one work would be the house he designed for Howard and Jessie Jones, at 8200 Narrows Avenue, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
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Bed Stuy Block Takes Top Honors at This Year’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest (Updated)
The judges have ruled, and the 23rd annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest winner is Bed Stuy’s Stuyvesant Avenue between Bainbridge and Chauncey streets. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been hosting the flower-filled competition for the last two decades in an attempt to bring communities together to make Brooklyn a cleaner, greener place.
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From Recent Reno to Fixer-Upper, Four Houses to See This Weekend
Our open house picks this weekend span a mixed bag of properties in varying states of repair, including a newly built townhouse, a brownstone with a front garden, and 19th-century brick row house. They’re found in Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Williamsburg and Bed Stuy.
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