Forum - Brownstoner
WEBJoin the Brownstoner community to discuss home improvement projects, neighborhood issues, and more. Browse the latest topics or start a new one in the forum archive.
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 ...
Real Estate - Brownstoner
WEBBrowse homes for sale and rent in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Westchester, Long Island and Connecticut. Find your dream brownstone, apartment, or condo on Brownstoner, the leading source for real estate in NYC.
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 ...
Divisive Hebron Build Nears Finish With 'Affordable' Units
WEBJul 31, 2024 · In 2019, the Crown Heights North Association won a similar lawsuit against LPC approval of another development on open space around a freestanding mansion at 839 St. Marks Avenue in the historic district. Recently, a housing lottery opened for the 48 affordable apartments, with studios priced at $3,128 a month, one-bedrooms at …
Brownstoner Dashboard
WEBContinue with Google. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. Not a member, Register now! Forgot your password? Click here to get a new one!
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 ...
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.
Brownstone Brooklyn: The Rise of the Brownstone in New York
WEBJan 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 ...
Red Hook Development: Subway Service and Skyscrapers
WEBDec 20, 2016 · The proposal. AECOM’s vision is to remake Red Hook with subway service and residential skyscrapers on what is now City- and Port Authority-owned land. The public agencies would sell the land to private developers, who would put up a mix of approximately 30,000 to 50,000 market-rate and affordable units on the waterfront.