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Brownstoner | Brooklyn Real Estate News
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Brownstoner is a website for Brooklyn homeowners, renters and enthusiasts. Find news, listings, design tips, history, events and more about Brooklyn life and real estate.
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 ...
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 ...
Affordable Housing Lottery With $617 Units Opens in Brownsville
WEBAug 13, 2024 · An affordable housing lottery has opened for 86 truly affordable apartments in a new Brownsville development, with one-bedroom units starting at $617 per month. The two-building, seven-story development, which has taken the place of two low-lying brick warehouses, also includes almost 40,000 square feet of …
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 ...
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.
History Underfoot: Flooring in the 19th Century Home
WEBApr 1, 2019 · The only thing that changed was the popularity of Eastern style geometric patterns, replacing the fad for fruits and flowers and foliage underfoot. 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 ...
Brownstone Boys: A Quick Guide to Restoring Finishing Details, …
WEBNov 4, 2020 · All moldings should be in proportion to the room size and each other. Trim and moldings serve an important purpose and are part of the architectural detail of your home. They hide the unsightly gaps between building materials and protect walls and plaster from damage, all while adding character and elegance to a room.
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