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History-Rich Fish-Scale Wood Frame With Details in Crown Heights Near Weeksville Asks $825K
With its fish-scale shingles and slate mantel with original faux marbling, this 19th century two-story wood frame house in the Weeksville part of Crown Heights is a remarkable survivor.
Creative Couple Transforms Crown Heights Wreck Into Colorful Family Home
As soon as Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner walked through the door of their Crown Heights brownstone in 2013, they knew it would be home.
They also knew they had their work cut out for them — the house was a total wreck.
Totally Mod Crown Heights Home With Steam Room, Marble Galore Asks $1.795 Million
This one-family townhouse in Crown Heights has been completely renovated in thoroughly modern style, with contemporary geometric light fixtures, a sleek kitchen and a whole lot of marble.
In addition to being wired up with a home security system, Bose ceiling speakers, master lighting controls and a basement screening area with surround sound, it’s got something not often found in one-family homes: a basement steam room.
Landmarked Crown Heights One-Family Mixes Details, Modern Touches
This landmarked single-family, at 904 Saint Johns Place in the Crown Heights Historic District, has gotten a nice top-to-bottom renovation, with a good deal of original detail restored. Most notably that includes a lot of unpainted maple woodwork, including door and window frames, fireplaces, pocket doors, wainscoting and a large pier mirror in the living room.
There are modern touches as well — exposed brick, recessed lighting and a modern kitchen. The latter is spacious and nicely done, with white Caesarstone counters and island, a six-burner Viking range and a wine refrigerator.
The Inspiring Story of Weeksville, One of America’s First Free Black Communities
Imagine being told your entire life that you were not really a citizen of your town or country. Imagine being treated as an inferior, offered only the most menial of jobs, and told to be happy with your lot in life. Imagine being banned from churches, stores and theaters, even cemeteries, because they did not serve “your kind.”
Now imagine finding a town where you were accepted — a town where you were able to build your own home, worship in your own church, buy from stores owned by people like you, and raise and educate your children in a place where they would be welcome. A town where you could reach old age and pass on in dignity and equality.
For Brooklyn’s African-American population in the 19th century, some of whom were recently freed from slavery, this remarkable town was called Weeksville. And it survives today in bits and pieces, some of which now comprise a historic center in present-day Crown Heights. Here is its story.
Crown Heights’ Literary Scene Gets Spinoff of Popular Franklin Park Reading Series
It’s not just Crown Heights’ residential housing market that’s bursting at the seams — so is the neighborhood’s literary scene.
Roosting Crows and Hills Aplenty: How Crown Heights Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature.
Brooklyn’s sprawling Crown Heights neighborhood is known for its West Indian population and the community’s annual parade on Labor Day, a festival of vivacious feather headdresses that dances down the area’s main thoroughfare, Eastern Parkway.
Locals Fight to Landmark East New York, Crown Heights South as Rezoning, Development Loom
Residents and preservationists are pushing for landmarking in two previously unprotected neighborhoods, Crown Heights South and East New York.
Massive Four-Family in Crown Heights Historic District Needs Everything, Asks $1.999 Million
This four-story, four-unit Queen Anne–style row house is unusually large — 3,845 square feet spread across four floors. The exact layout is a mystery since there is no floor plan, but according to the the listing it has nine bedrooms and four bathrooms. The home, at 1397 Dean Street, is just a few blocks from the Kingston-Throop stop on the C train.