Here’s How to Prevent Your Pipes From Freezing This Winter
Don’t let your pipe dreams turn into nightmares this winter. When temperatures drop, frozen pipe...
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15 Fireplaces So Amazing They Could Inspire a Move to Brooklyn
Along with the Nets, fixies, Patrick Stewart, and hydroponic kale, Brooklyn has fireplaces. Amazin...
Incandescent Fans Rejoice! Science Is Fixing Your Lighting Problem
The unfortunate ugliness of the new, legally mandated efficient lighting could drive even a beard-we...
This Sears Mail-Order Home Cost $1,652, Was Shipped to Canarsie on a Buggy
Through its Modern Homes program, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold some 75,000 mail-order houses betw...
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 surprisin...
The Insider: Young Designer Makes Manhattan Bridge the Focal Point in Dumbo Flat
"I didn't have to try too hard with this apartment," said interior designer Sheena Murphy of She...
Architect Transforms Brooklyn Heights Co-op Lobby From Grim to Glam
This isn't a transformation you see every day. When the St. George Tower -- once a wing of one of th...
Yes, the Crazy Brooklyn Real Estate Boom Is Slowing — We’ve Got the Data
Yes, it's true, the mind-boggling Brooklyn real estate boom of the last three years slowed in the...
Watch This 19th-Century Bed Stuy Mansion Get Demolished Day by Day
When Meredith Ries began photographing the crumbling building across the street, she meant it be a...
The Backfiring Acronym Meant to Deter Development: How Dumbo Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
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