In a postwar elevator building close to Grand Army Plaza, this one-bedroom co-op offers many charming features with 1950s élan, including an original kitchen and bathroom in apparently fine condition. There are also large rooms, parquet and corner windows. It’s on the sixth floor of 34 Plaza Street East, a full-service doorman building with 111…
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Selling a home can be a daunting task, but with the right preparation it can be a relatively easy process. The first step is to research your local market and find out here
6 Creative Interiors Offer Some Brooklyn Living Inspiration
From the pages of Brownstoner magazine, here are the stories of six Brooklyn dwellers who adapted their interior spaces to suit their modern lives. Each property offers a personal spin on Brooklyn living, including an artist’s whimsical Prospect Heights brownstone, a casual home for a family in Ditmas Park and a woodwork-filled Prospect Lefferts Gardens…
How 19th Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year
Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the old year ends in the last seconds of 11:59 on December 31 and the new begins at midnight on January 1 is celebrated with music, fireworks, noise…
Brooklyn Gained One Individual Landmark and One Historic District in 2022
With 2022 almost at an end, we are taking our annual look back at the Brooklyn buildings and neighborhoods considered significant enough to merit designation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission during the year. Brooklyn gained one individual landmark and one historic district this year. The hearing for one potential historic district, the Linden Street Historic…
Three-bedroom home sells in Oakland for $1.6 million
469 Alcatraz Ave – Google Street View A 1,517-square-foot house built in 1912 has changed hands. The historic property located in the 400 block of Alcatraz Avenue in Oakland was sold on Nov. 28, 2022. The $1,585,000 purchase price works out to $1,045 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms, one bath, a garage…
Brooklyn Real Estate Listings Six Months Later: All Four Sold
This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focused on homes in Fort Greene, Bed Stuy, Caton Park and Park Slope. How did they fare? While its compact footprint could challenge a small family of committed minimalists, this two-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op on the penultimate floor of a Fort…
The Spectacular Sparkle of the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights (Photos)
It is the Brooklyn neighborhood that glows during the holiday season and there is still time to gaze upon the brilliantly lit displays of Dyker Heights as the year draws to a close. As usual, residents start decking their houses in November with giant nutcrackers, animatronic Santas and dramatic light shows to dazzle the crowds…
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Who would have thought Home Depot would have some of the best Christmas deals around, some in categories you’d never expect? Us, that’s who! (Photo: Home Depot) Maybe Home Depot isn’t the first retailer you’d think of for end-of-year shopping…but it should be right up there. The site is filled with wild discounts across a…
Celebrating Christmas in 1899: A Tale of Two Brooklyns
Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2013. Read the original here. Many of our American society’s most enduring Christmas traditions come from the Victorian Age. Our idea of Santa Claus, the giver of gifts, became fully imagined in the 19th century. From mid-century England we got Dickens’ London, with…
Brooklyn News: Downtown Brooklyn Landmarks Sold
Landmarked Duffield Street Houses Unexpectedly Sold as DoBro Development Site for $10 Million The landmarked quartet of early 19th century houses in Downtown Brooklyn known as the Duffield Street houses recently sold for $10 million, an Instagram story posted by the listing broker revealed. The marketing and sale of the property as a development site…