Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: City Point Trader Joe's Opens, Greek Revival Reno

Renovation of Landmarked Greek Revival in Fort Greene Artfully Blends Old and New

“Design is much more fun than lawyering,” says Alissa Kelman Selling, whose hands-on involvement in the renovation and design of her family’s landmarked 1853 wood frame has her seriously contemplating a career change. Selling, who works part time in workers’ compensation law for a Manhattan firm, and her husband, Daniel, a psychologist, had long dreamt of buying a Brooklyn row house and fixing it up to their own specs.

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Trader Joe’s Highly Anticipated Second Brooklyn Outpost Opens at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn

Trader Joe’s long-awaited second Brooklyn outpost is now open in City Point in Downtown Brooklyn. It opened at 445 Gold Street today, Friday, June 23. The grocery store announced the opening date Wednesday on its website, and an employee at the Court Street store tweeted about it, as DNAinfo was the first to report.

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Four Diminutive Townhouses to See This Weekend, Starting at $895K

There’s a common thread among our open house picks this weekend: all are single-family townhouses. So if your home ownership dream includes fielding late-night texts from tenants with leaking faucets, look elsewhere. Those who’d just as soon not be on the receiving end of such missives, which likely includes most of us, read on, and behold homes in Gowanus, the South Slope, Crown Heights and Bed Stuy.

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Brooklyn Heights Top-Floor One-Bedroom With Marble Mantel Asks $2,500 a Month

Here’s a classic New York City one-bedroom apartment. It occupies part of the top floor of a five-story brownstone at 274 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights. The living room is quite attractive, with a decorative marble mantel and a pair of arched windows overlooking Henry Street. There are parquet floors in the living room and bedroom. (The listing calls the mantel a wood-burning fireplace, but that doesn’t square with the photo.)

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Long-Awaited Public Plaza Opens at Flatbush and Lafayette in Fort Greene

Music, food and undulating strings of balloons marked the grand opening of the public plaza at 300 Ashland Place in Fort Greene on Wednesday. Located at the corner of Flatbush and Lafayette avenues, the elevated, wedged-shaped plaza gives the public access to open space at the center of the busy cultural district.

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