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Brownstoner considers Clarkson to be the dividing line, and this house is on the Flatbush side. Flatbush Row House With Eight Mantels, Pass-Through Asks $2.295 Million. This house is within the boundaries of Prospect Lefferts Gardens (which, of course is part of Flatbush). IIRC it has been on our house tour in the fairly distant past.
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History Underfoot: Flooring in the 19th Century Home
Apr 1, 2019 · By the last decade of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, hardwood floors became the norm for all new construction. Plain strips of tongue and groove flooring, usually in oak, was now throughout most custom made and spec houses, in hallways, ground floors, and upper floors. Most parlor floors enjoyed parquet floors, usually with a ...
Brownstone Brooklyn: The Rise of the Brownstone in New York
Jan 31, 2017 · Photo by Susan De Vries. Many 19th-century New Yorkers blamed the brownstone problems on improperly cut stone in the quarries, or overly quick construction procedures. When cut and laid with the grain, brownstone crumbles and scales, because water seeps into the exposed pores of the thick brownstone blocks and, upon freezing, expands and splits ...
Gowanus Affordable Housing Lottery Opens With $784 Studios
Aug 28, 2024 · The affordable housing lottery opened today for the towering complex at 420 Carroll Street, right on the banks of the canal, with studios starting at $784 a month. Meanwhile, market-rate units, which went on the market in late July according to StreetEasy, include studio apartments starting at $3,436 a month, the building’s website shows.
Construction Wrapping Up at Brooklyn Tower
02/07/2024 0. Work is almost complete on the borough’s first supertall, The Brooklyn Tower, with facade installation wrapping up on the building’s double-height plinth and tenants and homeowners already taking up residence in the skyscraper that towers over it. On Tuesday, workers at 9 Dekalb Avenue were busy in the still-under construction ...
Lottery Opens for Greenpoint Affordable Apartments - Brownstoner
Jun 6, 2023 · 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. Still under construction and set to open in the fall, the H1H2 ...
Anglo-Italianate: A Charming Architecture Style That
Jan 8, 2020 · According to Charles Lockwood, writing in Bricks and Brownstone, the “bible” of New York City row house architecture, the Anglo-Italianate style gained a short window of popularity in Manhattan beginning in the late 1840s and carrying on through the 1850s. The style may have been introduced by architect and style-master Alexander Jackson ...
Industry City Brooklyn -- Bush Terminal History - Brownstoner
Nov 16, 2015 · His initial warehouses — all brick stores, similar to those further up the bay at Red Hook and Atlantic Basin — were built between 1892 and 1910. He constructed his railroad yards between 1896 and 1915, and added factory buildings between 1895 and 1925. Those factory buildings are the iconic Bush Terminal buildings now known as Industry City.
Robert A.M. Stern-Designed Mansion Tops Out in Midwood
Jan 7, 2020 · A huge one-family house designed by a famous architect is currently rising on a prominent corner in Midwood. Located at 3420 Bedford Avenue, at the corner of Avenue M, the 20,000-square-foot home is designed by the firm of Brooklyn-born Robert A.M. Stern, perhaps best known for his former role as dean of the Yale School of Architecture.