Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Dream Home Sells, Brooklyn's Priciest Sales of 2016

Park Slope Dream Home Turned Construction Nightmare Finally Sells for $7.5 Million

One of Brooklyn’s most crazily ambitious private residential projects has finally sold — unfinished and for $4 million less than ask. The tale of 277 1st Street in Park Slope has been unfolding for years as owners Ivona and Joseph Hertz attempted construction of a massive new home.

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Could This Landmarked Neo-Grec With Extravagant Custom Design Set a New Bed Stuy Record?

Step inside this artfully renovated and imposing 1881 corner-lot brownstone with a distinctive mansard roof at 1 Verona Place in Bed Stuy and you will see oodles of apparently original historic detail and modern kitchens and baths. But take a closer look.

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Greenwood Heights Single-Family With Details, In-Ground Pool Asks $1.518 Million

Built circa 1900, this one-family brick townhouse at 421 37th Street in Greenwood Heights has had only two owners in its lifetime, and they seem to have taken good care of it. It looks to be in fine shape, and has some nice original details — as well as a decidedly non-original in-ground swimming pool.

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These Were the Most Expensive Homes That Sold in Brooklyn in 2016

Brooklyn’s real estate market always has some lavish and expensive homes. But the top 10 most expensive sales of 2016 didn’t reset any records. The most expensive home sales in Brooklyn in 2016 differed quite a bit from last year’s list. The most expensive home on the list was $11.36 million, according to data provided to Brownstoner by PropertyShark, down from a record-breaking $15.5 million the year before.

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The Insider: Homeowner’s Love of Books Inspires Windsor Terrace Townhouse Makeover

The typical Brooklyn rowhouse requires interior structural columns to support the floors above. In modern renovations, when columns and walls are removed for greater openness, steel I-beams are often run along the ceiling to bear the load.

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