Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Pricey Sale and a Cancelled Fundraiser

Longtime Owner Sells Flatbush Edwardian for $5.15 Million, Corner to Become Apartments

Back in November, a developer’s plan to replace a freestanding house at 100 Lenox Road in Flatbush with a block of modern apartments was suddenly halted, and they were looking to sell. On one side of the house, at 94 Lenox Road, is another freestanding house of the same era, in the same family for decades, according to public records.

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Park Slope’s Legendary Grand Prospect Hall Nixes NRA Event After P.S. 321 PTA Declares Boycott

Well, that was fast. A planned NRA fundraiser will not go forward in Park Slope after an outcry from local parents convinced the owner of the venue, beloved neighborhood institution Grand Prospect Hall, to cancel the event.

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The Insider: Fort Greene Townhouse Opens Up With Three-Story Addition

Sometimes, in the renovation of a dilapidated vintage row house, when no original details remain, the interior is given a spare contemporary treatment. In other cases, when little can be saved, period details are painstakingly re-created. That was the approach with this four-family-turned-one-family, in a complete gut renovation by Gowanus-based Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design.

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Four Historic Charmers, All Under $1 Million, to See This Weekend

All our open house picks run under $1 million this weekend, an event which would scarcely be worthy of note in Cleveland, Ohio, or Tucson, Arizona, but is an uncommon state of affairs here in Brooklyn. One comes in only a dollar under the million figure, but is below it nonetheless.

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Huge Prewar With Elevator, Seven Closets, A/C Next to Prospect Park in PLG Asks $849K

This two-bedroom co-op has prewar features, a lot of space and a berth across the street from Prospect Park. It’s in Prospect Lefferts Gardens at 125 Ocean Avenue, a six-story building with 65 units built in 1939. A Brooklyn Eagle article from 1940 about the building touts apartments with “every modern improvement.”

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