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brianjaffe78
in Bath & Kitchen 13 years ago
Can you operate a nightclub/bar/lounge in an m1-1 zone in brooklyn ny?
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jcondo2
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
How can it be there is hardly a single gym in Fort Green/Clinton Hill?
How is this possible?
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thejourney
in Mortgage 11 years and 10 months ago
Commercial mortgage
Currently buying a lovely brownstone townhouse that is configured as an 8 family. Any recommendations for banks that do commercial or creative mortgages. We may…
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happycats
in Plumbers and Plumbing 11 years and 10 months ago
How To Fix A Clogged Bathtub In An Older Building With A Drum Trap
My bathtub is really clogged. I live in a building that was built in the 1950’s and it has a metal drum trap on the…
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Tower18
in Heating and Air Conditioning 11 years and 10 months ago
Clinton Hill Co-ops A/C install
Hello wise forum. Looking into installing window A/C for my first summer in the South Campus of the Clinton Hill Co-Ops. Unfortunately, the living rooms…
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zhideng
in General Discussion 12 years and 2 months ago
Bed Stuy Hancock and Patchen
Anyone familiar with this area? My wife and I are looking into getting a brick townhouse here and wanted to know if this was a…
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bedstuytownhouse
in Roofers 11 years and 10 months ago
Paying for water main break
We had a visit from the DEP and found out that the water main from our house is broken and they gave us a three-day…
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ajeb
in Legal 11 years and 11 months ago
Looking for lawyer specialized in construction law.
A developer with a nasty reputation bought the lot next to our building and now wants us to give permission to underpin our building. We…
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jeffandlauran
in Quality of Life 11 years and 10 months ago
bad idea to invest in a property between 2 buildings in poor condition?
Hi, My husband and I are thinking of purchasing a home in Bushwick. We have concerns about the condition of the buildings on either side…
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nwilcke
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
Help with window guards
Hi all: can anyone recommend a window guard for very standard white pull up windows? They don’t tilt in or anything, and they all have…
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parkslopemom
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 11 months ago
Insulation Recommendation
I’m posting to recommend Federal Conservation Corp. after the superb job they did blowing InsulSafe insulation into the entire crawl space area below our roof.…
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mbr47
in Boiler Repair 11 years and 11 months ago
Sump or Drain Required for Oil to Gas Boiler Conversion?
While researching replacing the oil fired boiler with a new gas steam boiler in our 2 family limestone, I’m told the city may require a…
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Arkady
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
Fence Height
Anyone know offhand what the law is about fence height? I’d always thought there was a 6′ limit above grade.
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jcondo2
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
How can it be there is hardly a single gym in Fort Green/Clinton Hill?
How is this possible?
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nwilcke
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
Help with window guards
Hi all: can anyone recommend a window guard for very standard white pull up windows? They don’t tilt in or anything, and they all have…
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alexbklyn
in Flooring 11 years and 11 months ago
Fixing slanted floors
Hi all, I’m looking at renovating a unit in a prewar co-op and I noticed that in several rooms the floors are quite slanted. I…
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jeanmarine2
in Exterminator 11 years and 11 months ago
New Steel Deck+Kitchen Floors - Structural Concerns/Renovation+ Carpenter Ants
We just added a steel deck on our parlor floor, with steel anchored in the bricks, and are seeing carpenter ants around our newly added…
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bklynpwds
in About Brooklyn 11 years and 10 months ago
Street Tree info
Our street tree died a few years ago. The city came yesterday to grind down the stump. Utilities have been marked and they are very…
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