historic district

‘Greenest Block in Brooklyn’ Fights for Landmark Status

300 East 25th Street Block. Courtesy of the Historic Districts Council.EAST FLATBUSH — On the 300 East 25th Street Block, which sits between Clarendon Road and Avenue D in East Flatbush, neighbors work tirelessly to preserve the lush diversity of plants that has made them the four-time winner of the

Bed Stuy

New Construction Planned for Historic Bed-Stuy Neighborhood

A Stuyvesant Heights Historic District was designated in 2013 within the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy (Screenshot via Google Maps)In the small “sub-neighborhood” of Stuyvesant Heights, new renderings have been revealed for two real estate projects a few blocks apart. The two projects are for five- and six-story residential buildings which

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Celebrity Real Estate: Emily Blunt And John Krasinski List Park Slope Townhouse For $8M

586 4th Street via Property Shark (Photo by Nanci Roden, Nov. 2008)PARK SLOPE – Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) and husband John Krasinski (The Office) recently put the Park Slope townhouse they purchased in December 2015 on the market at a $2 million mark-up. The Wall Street Journal broke

Central Brooklyn

Century-Old Argyle Road Mansion Asks $3M, Topples $2M Club

85 Argyle Road. (Photo via Brooklyn Hearth Realty)A colorful, historically preserved Prospect Park South mansion hit the market this week for $3, blowing our $2 million club right out of the water. This Simplified Free Colonial-style mansion, at 85 Argyle Road between Church Ave and Albemarle Road, was designed

historic district

South Slope Historic Signs Coming Soon

Good news from the Park Slope Civic Council. The signs for the recently expanded historic district are officially on the Department of Transportation’s schedule for sometime this spring. The new extension, approved in April 2012, “stretches from approximately Seventh Street to 15th Street, from Seventh to Eighth Avenues, and

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It’s Official: Park Slope Historic District is Now the Biggest in the City

City Council just voted to approve an expansion of the Park Slope Historic District, making it the largest historic district in the city. In April, the plan got the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, but with today’s vote, it’s official: no neighborhood’s got as much history