By Isabel Song Beer, Brooklyn Paper July is on average New York City’s hottest month of the year, and with climate change steadily heating up the planet, summer months will undoubtedly increase in temperature: the first week of July this year was the hottest week ever recorded, with global temperatures breaking previously-set record highs. While…
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Seven-Bedroom Ditmas Park West Standalone Asks $6,950 a Month
On a leafy street in Ditmas Park West this capacious early 20th century standalone would allow a renter to spread out over three floors of living space and offer up some outdoor space. At 489 Rugby Road, the single-family has wood floors, stained glass, moldings, and a mantle along with some updates like recessed lighting…
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…
Brooklyn News: Restoration of Brooklyn Paramount Theatre
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens in Cypress Hills for $419 Studios and $722 Three-Bedrooms A lottery has opened for 341 apartments in the 100 percent affordable Atlantic Chestnut development under construction in Cypress Hills on the site of a former food processing plant that burned down in 2012. — Linden Terrace III is the third development…
Clinton Hill Brownstone Apartment With Two Bathrooms Asks $4,250 a Month
This duplex for rent on the top two floors of a Clinton Hill brownstone has quite a bit to recommend it, including vintage charm, a bathroom on each floor, and plenty of space. If there’s a drawback, apart from the climb on the stairs, it might be that the top floor appears to be the…
Grand Brooklyn Heights Greek Revival With Marble Mantels Asks $7.25 Million
Back on the market after a 2021 sale, this 1840s townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District is a substantial 25 feet wide with five floors of living space. While some period details such as marble mantels remain, some of the finishes date to a 1909 renovation. Located at 116 Pierrepont Street, the house has…
Major Adams floats a legal challenge if the Council overrides his veto and passes housing voucher bills
Major Eric Adams (center), Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park (left) and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom (right). Credit: Ed Reed/Major Photography Office. Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said he is…
Windsor Terrace Two-Bedroom Asks $799K
Across from Prospect Park, this two-bedroom is in a 1960s building that the original builders promoted as providing “sumptuous living” with “outstanding appointments.” The unit on the fourth floor of 185 Prospect Park Southwest has had a renovation that left a few of the mid-century details intact while making clever use of built-ins to provide…
Bed Stuy Brownstone With Woodwork Asks $3.1 Million
Lush with 1890s detail like elaborate wood mantels, a grand staircase, and a passthrough with marble sinks and built-ins, this Bed Stuy townhouse is back on the market after a 2020 sale. At 164 MacDonough Street, the house was previously renovated with updated wet rooms and central air. The Romanesque Revival brownstone is one of…
Celebrate a Brooklyn Juneteenth With Food, Music, and Events Around the Borough
The Brooklyn calendar is full this year for a Juneteenth with a celebratory mix of events that offer summer enjoyment along with some food for thought. The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when news of Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. While Black Brooklynites of…