Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Curved Tower Coming to Dumbo, a Park Slope Reno
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
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Curved Tower Will Rise on Former Jehovah’s Witnesses Lot Next to Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo
A tilted, glassy tower is coming soon to Dumbo, where it will be wedged between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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Would You Pay $5.5 Million to Live in Shipping Container Luxury in Williamsburg?
The slanted, corrugated townhouse at 2 Monitor Street, completed three years ago and built from 21 shipping containers, is now for sale.
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The Insider: Freestanding Park Slope Townhouse Gets a Top-to-Bottom Reno, Fresh Decor
The architectural typology of this three-story, one-family brick home is unusual for Brooklyn’s brownstone belt. “It’s a freestanding house in the 1920s Georgian Revival style, two or three steps up from the street,” said architect Adam Glickman of Ridgewood-based Glickman Schlesinger Architects, hired by the homeowners to “pretty much gut” and renovate the house.
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Four Townhouses With Details and Updates to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.199 Million
The open house picks for this weekend are all move-in ready townhouses, three of them recently updated. All have notable historical features such as arched doorways, staircases, built-ins and elaborate ceilings.
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Walls Rise at Enormous Condo-Rental Luxury Development at 85 Jay Street in Dumbo
Concrete walls are taking shape at Dumbo’s biggest development site, where foundation work continues. Walls are going up and rebar and concrete forms can be seen on the northern end of the huge block-size development at 85 Jay Street, a recent visit revealed.
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