Decluttering Your Home? Here’s Where to Donate Your Stuff in Brooklyn
One of the major barriers to getting rid of stuff is that it’s not always easy to figure out wha...
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A Map of Brooklyn Pinball, and Why the Borough’s Silver Ball Game Is So Weak
For all of Brooklyn's retro fever, the borough is still supremely lacking in pinball machines, a...
How Much Will My Home Renovation Cost, Anyway?
Renovating a house can be one of those bank-account-draining experiences that make a designer shoe...
Clover Hill and the Shedding of a Suburban Identity: How Brooklyn Heights Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
How the Jehovah’s Witnesses Acquired Some of Brooklyn’s Most Insanely Valuable Properties
Read Part 1 of this story. The Jehovah's Witnesses -- aka the Watchtower Bible and Tract Soci...
Young East New York Native Fights to Preserve Neighborhood’s Historic Gems
A young junior architect who grew up in East New York is leading the fight to landmark more than...
Reader Unearths Fascinating 1969 Letter About Then-New Jehovah’s Witnesses HQ
Here's a fun blast from the past. After reading our post last week on how the Jehovah's Witnesses...
1880s House Envy: Reporter Visits “The Most Magnificent Private Residence in Brooklyn”
Mention of the Gilded Age may conjure visions of Edith Wharton's Manhattan, but there's no better ...
Sahadi’s Owner Retiring, Handing Down Iconic Atlantic Avenue Shop to Family
Middle Eastern import store and Atlantic Avenue fixture Sahadi's will see a changing of the guar...
Architect Transforms Gowanus Parking Garage Into Garden-Topped Modernist Paradise
Exposed cinder block walls aren't something the typical house-proud Brooklynite brags about. But t...
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