Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: New Trader Joe's and a Brooklyn Housing Glut

Trader Joe’s to Open at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn
Trader Joe’s has signed a lease for a 13,800-square-foot store at City Point in Downtown Brooklyn, City Point developers Acadia Realty Trust and Washington Square Partners announced this week. The popular discount grocery will open in 2016.

Winter Brooklyn Flea and Smorg Move to Industry City in Sunset Park
We’ll all have a great excuse to visit Sunset Park this fall. The winter location for the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg will be at Industry City from October 17 to March 27. The market will set up shop in a 50,000-square-foot space on the second floor of 241 37th Street.

The Insider: Toning Down an Ornate Park Slope Townhouse
The elaborately carved moldings and doors in this late Victorian brownstone were in superb condition when a couple acquired the four-story, one-family house. Though the new homeowners certainly appreciated what they had, they still wanted the décor to have a contemporary feeling.

Brooklyn Housing Glut Coming Soon, Developers Warn
Increased inventory and luxury rentals lingering on the market have caused a handful of Brooklyn developers and others to warn of a possible coming housing glut in Brooklyn. “Scores” of glassy towers are “opening, topping out or breaking ground” in north Brooklyn, from Downtown to Williamsburg.

Another Gorgeous Back-Wall Blowout in a Carroll Gardens Brownstone
It’s a simple fact: Brownstones weren’t built for light. Pre-renovation, the parlor floor of this 1899 Italianate row house in Carroll Gardens was dark and cramped, with interior dividing walls making it feel even narrower than its 14-foot width. Drew Lang of Lang Architecture opened it up, creating the latest gorgeous example of a rear wall transformed by a wall of windows.

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