A spacious one-bedroom on the fifth floor of a six-story elevator building in Prospect Heights was recently renovated to make most of the apartment’s charming prewar features. The winding layout includes a large foyer, dressing room and dining area with built-in banquettes. Described as neo-Classical in an early brochure and a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Dazzles With Light and Sound as Lightscape Returns
A seasonally crisp evening greeted the return of Lightscape on Wednesday night as visitors sipped hot chocolate and meandered through the spectacular light and sound transforming the grounds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the holiday season. From a pulsating disco ball tree to soothing swirls of leaves gently appearing over the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden,…
16 Design Moves That Could Hurt Your Home’s Value, According to Real Estate Pros
The rules of the real estate market have spoken. Yasser Chalid/Getty Images One advantage in buying—or building—a home is the ability to customize it. Whether you’re building the home from scratch, or renovating it to be more modern and functional, designing a home to your specifications can definitely make it much more enjoyable to live…
Work Starts to Transform Crown Heights Parking Lot Into Affordable Housing
Workers were busy Monday at a former One Brooklyn Health parking lot on Crown Heights’ Park Place that is slated to become a five-story, 43-unit affordable housing development as part of a sweeping $1.4 billion state plan to revitalize central Brooklyn. The wide-ranging plan, Vital Brooklyn, was launched in 2017 under Cuomo and aims to…
Brooklyn News: Affordable Housing Lottery in East New York
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for East New York Apartments Starting at $589 a Month An affordable housing lottery has launched for studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments for the first building of a large, four-building affordable and supportive housing development rising in East New York. — Photo by Thomas Richter The Insider: Storied Brooklyn Heights Townhouse…
Bushwick Community Calls on Landmarks to Protect Cook Mansion From Demolition by Neglect
Bushwick community members and preservationists will rally outside the more than 130-year-old Romanesque Revival Lipsius-Cook Mansion on Bushwick Avenue on Wednesday, calling on the Landmarks Preservation Commission to safeguard the building from further deterioration. The Bushwick Historic Preservation Association and Historic Districts Council have organized a rally to “light a fire” under LPC and get…
Funds to Restore Magnolia Tree Earth Center’s Facade Reach $70K With Help From Boro Prez
The team behind Bed Stuy’s Magnolia Tree Earth Center is getting closer to its fundraising goal to fix the center’s crumbling facades and remove the more than decade old sidewalk shed thanks to a $20,000 donation from the Brooklyn borough president and more than $50,000 raised in a GoFundMe. According to the organization’s board president,…
The Insider: Drama and Glamor Define New Decor in South Slope Townhouse
Got a project to propose for The Insiders? Contact Cara at caramia447 [at] gmail [dot] com Often, a designer’s clients will come up with Pinterest images or magazine tear sheets at the beginning of a project to convey the look they envision for their space. Not so with Crystal Sinclair’s new clients, a young couple…
Park Slope House With Garden Asks $7,200 a Month
Modest for its time, this brick row house for rent in Park Slope offers space to spread out amid high ceilings and graceful details. Although only 16.67 feet wide, according to PropertyShark, the circa 1860s Anglo-Italian at 428 11th Street has well proportioned rooms over two floors. The first of those floors was set directly…
Brooklyn News: A Greenpoint Housing Lottery Launches
Lottery Opens for Greenpoint Stabilized Units With Views, Central Air, Starting at $410 a Month A lottery has opened for apartments in a 100 percent affordable building going up on the waterfront in Greenpoint. The 22-story, 375-unit development is part of Greenpoint Landing, a 22-acre 10-building high-rise complex made possible by the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning….