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WEBAug 22, 2024 · Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Modern Flatbush Build With $823 Units. Some say the kitchen and bathroom are also from the 1900's . $3600 ?? Smh. Park Slope Edwardian Unit With Built-ins, Moldings Asks $3,600 a Month. I believe the owner's name, also, is Jonathon Bombart.
Greenpoint’s Landmarked Event Space Polonaise Terrace
WEB11/14/2022 0. It looks likely Greenpoint’s iconic Polonaise Terrace, which most recently housed Brooklyn Bazaar, will be no more, with developers filing plans to convert it into a new four-story retail and office space. The circa 1898 structure — made up of a one-story and two-story building — at 144 Greenpoint Avenue is located inside ...
Victorian Bathroom: A Quick History of the Bathroom
WEBNov 28, 2016 · Rogers’ bathrooms coincided with the inventions of another plumbing legend, his former boss, Solomon Willard, who is credited with the American invention of hot air central heating. The two features would come together 50 years later in the late Victorian bathroom. Late 19th century bathroom at the Codman House.
Longtime Bushwick Business Krown Hardware to Reopen on …
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Bushwick’s Krown Hardware store will continue its more than 70 year run on Broadway when it reopens to the public in its former building but in a scaled-down space. The three-generation mom-and-pop is one of the few local businesses to survive the arson fires and looting of the 1977 blackout. Owner A.J. Adipietro is taking the reins from his ...
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WEBFind answers, ask questions, and connect with our Brownstoner community. Start a new topic. 1. 2. ... 2458. >. Looking for advice about a home improvement project? Want to talk about what’s going on in your neighborhood?
History Underfoot: Flooring in the 19th Century Home
WEBApr 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 ...
Upstate Homes for Sale: A Pattern Book-Perfect Second Empire
WEB11/17/2017 7 minute 0. When trying to envision the Second Empire-style phase of Victorian architecture one usually conjures up an exuberant, mansard-roofed confection of a house that looks ripped directly from a 19th century pattern book. The bold John O’Brien house in Rhinebeck turns out to be just such a house — a period architect’s ...
A Sad Farewell to Williamsburg's Crest Hardware
WEB08/30/2024 3 minute. Along with hundreds, possibly thousands, of other bereft locals, we said our goodbyes to Crest Hardware Saturday. The space it had occupied for 62 years had been emptied of shelving and hardware for the final blowout, the Crest Farewell Fest, leaving only the front and rear counters. Manning the latter, a diverse lineup of ...
Housing Lottery Opens for First-Time Home Buyers for 11
WEB10/25/2023 5 minute. An affordable housing lottery has opened for the sale of 11 two- and three-family houses in Bed Stuy and Crown Heights. The lottery is specifically for first-time home buyers with households of between two and seven people earning between $104,500 and $227,630 a year. The cheapest house in the lottery, priced at $653,800 ...
What Is a Row House, Anyway?: Brooklyn Architecture History
WEBMay 12, 2016 · A quick definition. A rowhouse is one of a group of low-rise residential buildings that shares one or both side walls and a roofline with the structures next door. A rowhouse is typically just two to five stories in height and home to one or two families. However, some of Brooklyn’s rowhouses have been converted into a greater number of ...
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