#Prospect Lefferts Gardens

#Prospect Lefferts Gardens

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Midwood, and Prospect Park South.How did they fare?With five distinct areas and Deco details such as arched doorways, this roomy studio offers vintage charm and the perk of being located in Prospect Lefferts Gardens not far from Prospect Park.

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a co-op in Clinton Hill, a row house in Boerum Hill, and a standalone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.Boerum Hill and Prospect Lefferts Gardens were popular this week.The least expensive on the list is a Prospect Lefferts Gardens rental at $6,600 a month and the most expensive is a row house in Gowanus at $5.496 million.

A proposed historic district and a church, both in Brooklyn, are among a list of 13 new nominations to the State and National Registers of Historic Places announced last week by Governor Hochul.Designation will make them eligible for preservation help, including grants.Nominated in Cypress Hills is the former English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation at 105 Barbey Street.

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a rental in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, a row house in Kensington, and a brownstone in Park Slope.Popular listings were scattered around the borough this week.The least expensive on the list is a Prospect Lefferts Gardens rental at $6,400 a month and the most expensive is a row house in Gowanus at $5.496 million.

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Crown Heights.They range in price from $1.85 million to $11.49 million.-
The Insider: All-Out Renovation of Brooklyn Heights Gothic Revival Fulfills Homeowner's 50-Year Dream This transformation of a grand brownstone was a long time coming - five decades, approximately.

This whole-house rental in Prospect Lefferts Gardens combines the Beaux-Arts with the Arts and Crafts in a bow-fronted limestone with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garden hot tub.At 45 Sterling Street, it is one of a row of 11 designed by noted Brooklyn architect Benjamin Driesler and marketed as " Easy Housekeeping Homes."

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has announced a new initiative to support local women of color as they launch and grow small businesses.Starting on March 15, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-owned businesses will be able to apply for the BK Entrepreneur Academy, a mentorship program aimed at enhancing equality for entrepreneurs of color in the borough.

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An MTA bus driver is facing disciplinary action after driving over an elderly woman's foot in Marine Park on Monday night.The 81-year-old woman was walking in the crosswalk at East 36th Street and Avenue S at 10:50 p.m when a B2 bus ran over her foot and knocked her to the ground.

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A 25-year-old man was shot on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus in Crown Heights late on Tuesday night.According to a New York City Police Department representative, the victim was the unintended target of the bullet after two men got into an argument on a B44 select bus at the corner of Empire Boulevard and Nostrand Avenue just after 11pm.

After Nettie's House of Spaghetti announced on Instagram that it would cease to allow kids under 10 at its Italian New Jersey restaurant, the Internet lit up, reigniting a decades-old debate about the role of children in restaurants.Now turnaround chain Applebee's is joining in the foray, and a PR-grab announcement stated, from now until February 26, kids will get free meals at 36 Doherty-owned Applebee's New Jersey locations as retribution.

When one door closes, another opens - sometimes right down the street.The two-story Barnes and Noble on Court Street bookstore closed its doors one last time on Jan. 10 after 20 years in business, but bookworms need not fear - the store is just relocating to a few blocks over to Atlantic Avenue, where a brand-new book haven will open on Jan. 18 in a storefront formerly occupied by the department store Barney's.

Brownstoner magazine's Fall/Holiday 2022/23 issue is hot off the presses.Get your hands on a copy and check out:


     A Bed Stuy townhouse where interior designer Jennifer Morris pulled together a colorful, welcoming home for a growing family in record time.Brownsville attorney turned designer Busayo Olupona, whose wares draw on her heritage and employ artisans in Nigeria who create unique fabrics using traditional artisanal techniques.