Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse Opens

Mayor Adams Wants to Keep the BQE, Plans to Counter Highway’s ‘Racism’ With Parks, Plazas

It seems the mayor has made up his mind. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will stay, necessary repairs will be made, and the administration hopes to mitigate the “racism built into our infrastructure,” as he put it, by creating parks and plazas under the highway.

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Lottery Opens for More Than 100 Affordable Units With Solar, A/C, Geothermal in East New York

A lottery has launched for 129 truly affordable apartments in an under-construction development that will incorporate cutting-edge green technology at 573 Emerald Street in East New York. The apartments will be in Linden Terrace II, one of three buildings that make up the 548-unit Linden Terrace development.

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Park Slope House With Wood Burning Fireplace, Movie-Inspired Kitchen Wants $7.5 Million

Around the corner from Prospect Park, this 1890s townhouse has been extensively overhauled since it was last on the market, leaving most but not all of its lavish period detail and adding a new kitchen. A House of the Day back in 2016, 857 Carroll Street sold for $4.95 that year and is back and asking a few million more.

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Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse Wows With Architectural Grandeur and Design Imagination

For a rare peek into a sumptuous 1839 Greek Revival townhouse and the fertile imaginations of a score of talented local interior designers, put the 2022 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse on your must-see list. Its five floors, from garden to solarium, have been dreamily reimagined in a summer of whirlwind effort, and will be open to the public from Friday, September 23 through October 30.

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A Benjamin Driesler-Designed Park Slope House and Three More to See, Starting at $1.125 Million

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Bed Stuy. They range in price from $1.125 million to $3.695 million.

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