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The Insider: Cobble Hill Family Home Becomes Empty Nesters’ Grown-up Retreat
A modern steel staircase cleared space for an expanded contemporary kitchen in a Cobble Hill Greek Revival with original black marble mantels.
The Insider: Full-on Interior Update Polishes Park Slope Neo-Tudor Gem
A thoughtful renovation and new decor injected practicality, warmth, and richness into an early 20th century house that had lived many lives.
The Insider: High-Gloss Yellow Kitchen Spreads Cheer in Fort Greene Aerie
An update of a dated rooftop pièd-a-terre for a small family added light, ceiling height, and modern furnishings.
Students Get Hands-on Experience Restoring Green-Wood Cemetery
Students in the Bridge to Crafts Career program learn the construction trade including masonry restoration in an important scenic landscape.
The Insider: Custom Detail, Scandi Touches Characterize Heights Reno
The dated prewar apartment was in desperate need of an upgraded kitchen, two new baths, and an overall pulling together of the main living space.
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Would love to know the wall colors. Also where is that living room rug from?
The Insider: High-Gloss Yellow Kitchen Spreads Cheer in Fort Greene AerieWhat a great program! Thanks for this story. I'm going to see if we can get something like this going here in Troy, which has a beautiful park cemetery like Green-Wood, just not as big.
Students Get Hands-on Experience Restoring Green-Wood CemeteryI remember when there also were house tours in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights, Greenpoint, Crown Heights, and probably some more neighborhoods. There was even an additional Park Slope tour labeled “That Brazen Little Block”(6th Street, I think). I’m glad that my neighborhood (PLG) tour, Park Slope, and Bedford Stuyvesant are still going strong.
House Tour Season Returns With Events in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Park SlopeThat photo is not from the marine terminal, it's from a community meeting at a church that was held a few days earlier. (Stained glass windows!)
Brooklyn Marine Terminal Revamp Starts With Crane Demo