Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Another Tower Coming to Downtown Brooklyn

Mid-Century Bank, Four Other Downtown Brooklyn Buildings to Make Way for 45-Story Tower

Another tower will be rising in Downtown Brooklyn as half a block on Fulton Street, including a mid-century bank building, is set to be demolished to make way for a 45-story mixed-use development that will include affordable housing.

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Deco-Era Bensonhurst House With Vintage Details, Rumpus Room Bar, Garage Asks $1.65 Million

This semi-detached house in Bensonhurst has some nice details for lovers of early 20th century design, including vintage kitchen and bathroom features, parquet floors and a basement rumpus room complete with built-in bar. The two-family house at 1543 West 6th Street also has the bonus of a driveway and a garage.

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The Insider: Architect Carves Two Duplexes Out of Narrow Carroll Gardens Brownstone in Dire Straits

What began as a call from a concerned homeowner about a plaster medallion that had fallen off the ceiling, narrowly missing his daughter’s head, “turned into a gut,” said architect Dan Kaplan of Gowanus-based Bowerbird Architects, who received the worried call.

“He wanted me to look at the structural stability,” Kaplan recalled of the 18 by 48 foot row house. “The floors were so extremely deflected toward the staircase that I said, ‘Something is wrong. I don’t think you should be using the parlor floor. We need to bring a contractor and open up the ceilings.”

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Don’t Call It Affordable Housing: Lottery Opens for Pacific Park Tower in Prospect Heights

The latest tower to go up in the long-in-the-works Pacific Park (Atlantic Yards) mega-development is a market rate one on the corner of Pacific and 6th Avenue in Prospect Heights, once known as B5. The developer, The Brodsky Organization, has applied for a tax break under the state’s 421-a program and as a result, the building has income-targeted, rent-stabilized units whose lottery launched last week. Interestingly, Brodsky is not calling them “affordable” but rather “middle income.”

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Trader Joe’s Reveals Williamsburg Store Will Open Friday, December 10 With Live Music

Trader Joe’s Williamsburg outpost will officially open Friday, December 10, the store announced today. When Brownstoner stopped by 200 Kent Avenue Sunday, a mural decorating the entrance had been completed and work was still going on inside.

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