Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Crown Heights Tenant Protests Conditions, Files Suit

Crown Heights Landlord Harassment, ‘A Living Hell,’ Includes Sewage, Drug Deals: Lawsuit

Over the past six months, 76-year-old Park Place tenant Francis Roberts says he has had sewage bubbling up through his kitchen sink due to broken plumbing and more leaking in front of his bedroom windows from two portable toilets set up outside. He alleges drug deals have taken place in tents set up around his front door where unknown people sleep and that he has woken up to a stranger using his computer at his table. That he has had music blared into his living room 24 hours a day through a hole in the ceiling. All the while, he said, he has seen no action on the increasing deterioration of his garden-floor apartment, which is plagued by mold, leaks, and gas and electricity outages.

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Brooklyn Heights Prewar on Top Floor With Sleek Kitchen, Dishwasher Asks $550K

Although no one would call it capacious, this one-bedroom apartment has elegant prewar details, a modern minimalist kitchen and low monthly maintenance. It’s located on the top floor of 59 Pineapple Street, a six-story, 40-unit elevator building in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

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Flatbush Standalone With Mantels, Updated Bathrooms, Garage Asks $2.895 Million

This sprawling Flatbush standalone certainly isn’t short on space, both indoors and out, with two floors of bedrooms and a two-car garage. The updated interior includes renovated bathrooms, but many period details in the house remain, including stained glass, mantels and wainscoting.

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‘Unique and Delightful’ Detail-Filled Park Slope Manse With 1950s Style Diner Asks $9.95 Million

When this Park Slope manse was for sale in 1910 the ad pitched it as “must be seen to be appreciated” with exquisite details and an ideal location across from Prospect Park. The massive dwelling on Prospect Park West still has plenty of those original details in evidence, including a central gallery and gleaming woodwork. It has also had some modern and quirky upgrades; the “unequaled kitchen” described in the original ad has been turned into a 1950s diner.

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The Insider: Three Cousins Rethink Row House Living With Communal Reno in Prospect Heights

Three cousins, all around age 30 — two American brothers and their first cousin, an Italian woman now settled in Brooklyn — went in on the purchase of an early 20th century row house badly in need of renovation. Each planned to take one floor of the four-story building, with the garden level to become a communal kitchen and gathering space.

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