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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.

Vinegar Hill has hit number three in the list of New York City's most expensive neighborhoods, spurred by sales in one luxury development on Water Street.Although Vinegar Hill recorded only five sales in the first quarter of 2023, the median price of the sales at $2.6 million was enough to see it ascend the list of the city's 50 priciest neighborhoods, released by PropertyShark.

Units in the World War II-era Clinton Hill Cooperatives pop up frequently, but intriguingly this one-bedroom has a number of rarely seen period features, including a layout with original pantry.It is on the fifth floor of 209 Clinton Avenue, one of the buildings designed to solve a housing crisis for defense workers at the nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard.

If you are on the hunt for a summer rental, this one certainly isn't for the budget-minded, but it does have plenty of appealing features.The 23-foot-wide Greek Revival at 273 Hicks Street in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District is a two-family with a presumably more modest garden rental, but it is the four floors of living space above that are available for a summer of living in grand style.

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The new owners of a stoopless, century-old three-story row house knew from the get-go that they would leave the existing ground-floor rental apartment in place and transform the building's upper floors, configured as two floor-through rental units, into a duplex for themselves.

In an unassuming brick Italianate, this one-bedroom has grand original details along with some creative and modern deconstructed elements.It's located on the parlor floor of 90 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, close to BAM and Fort Greene Park.The unit's main rooms have elaborate mid-19th century pieced plasterwork highlighted by a cream, tan, and blue paint scheme.

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State lawmakers on Thursday introduced new legislation to crack down on deed thieves, scammers who seek to steal properties, often from Black and Latino homeowners.And state Attorney General Letitia James is championing the cause in a bid to keep New Yorkers in their homes and protect generational wealth.

If the scaffolding surrounding the Brooklyn Supreme Court building on Adams Street was a person, it would be preparing to finish its sophomore year of high school - and the city spends more money each year keeping the structure propped up than it does on the average public school student.The scaffolding - or "sidewalk shed," as it's more formally known - has been wrapped around the courthouse at 360 Adams Street since 2007.

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a co-op in Prospect Heights, a two-family in Crown Heights, and a standalone in Flatbush.Crown Heights, Park Slope, and Flatbush were popular this week.The least expensive on the list is a Flatbush rental at $2,400 a month and the most expensive a townhouse in Brooklyn Heights at $9.75 million.

Rich with original woodwork, this Bay Ridge row house has a long list of eye-catching original details dating from when it was built in the early 20th century as well as some mid-century updates.At 577 76th Street, the single-family dwelling has wood floors with inlaid borders, pocket doors, an original stair, stained glass, and an intact dining room.

Advocates seeking to co-name a portion of Utica Avenue "Guyana Avenue" are settling for a shorter-than-proposed stretch of road, after members of Community Board 18 rejected their proposal at this month's meeting.Members of the Utica Co-Naming Committee originally proposed that a three-mile stretch of Utica Avenue (from Eastern Parkway to Avenue H) be co-named after the Caribbean state to celebrate the achievements of the Guyanese community in Brooklyn.

Animal motifs enliven and strengthen a room, and connect the indoors to nature.In a Fort Greene townhouse home to Chused & Co.'s Jenna Chused, a painting of an ostrich reinforces the parlor's serene creamy and sepia tones.Leopard spots animate candles from Studio SFW shop House SFW.A papier-mâché mouse wall mount from Collyer's Mansion strikes a note of whimsy.