Gusts of wind ripped leaves off the trees in front of the sturdy brownstone buildings.
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Brownstone Brooklyn makes a dignified statement with its housing stock, albeit a quiet, old-fashioned one.
Don't you wish you had bought that prewar brownstone in the 80s off Central Park West then?
The apartment, in a brownstone on Fifth Avenue, has its own ground-floor entrance and a backyard garden.
"Originally in an old brownstone there would have been a parlor-floor balcony, " Mr. Peterson said of the retractable living-room wall.
With the technique, the facade looks and feels like a traditional brownstone building, but it is also able to move.
At the end of the tracks is a gate surmounted by a tower, with a brownstone wing on either side.
While at City Ballet, he lived for 25 years in a brownstone he bought near Lincoln Center, just before it opened.
Treachery, deceit and intrigue are rampant in Five Points, and disguised little better behind the facades of the Fifth Avenue brownstone.
Eight years ago the couple purchased a roughly 3, 600-square-foot, late-1800s limestone-facade brownstone from a 96-year-old woman whose family originally owned the home.
Listing agent Robert Browne of the Corcoran Group called the brownstone elegant, with an elegant stoop that is divided into 2 units.
Pop icons Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were among those who grazed on deserts in a modest living room in Weinstein's West Village brownstone.
"That charming brownstone feel is what people tend to like about Brooklyn, " said Anthony Dellecave, a broker with Citi Habitats, who specializes in Brooklyn.
"I find it to be much more interesting than the brownstone biking culture, where hipsters spend lots of money on basically designer bikes, " he said.
Their time at the cabin contrasts dramatically with their life in Manhattan, where they rent two floors of a brownstone on the Upper West Side.
People here will spend a half hour picking through bad LPs left on a brownstone stoop, or circle the block endlessly, hoping to spy on-street parking.
Exhale's polar opposite may well be the Brooklyn Yoga School, a tiny outfit housed in a charming Park Slope brownstone space with a big bay window.
The Segway simply won't let you--unless you crash into the stoop of a brownstone town house, as I did during a brief spin around Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
She'd been strangled and stuffed into a large garbage bag left to be collected with the morning trash on the sidewalk in front of a brownstone.
For a 2010 concert, it invited composer Jakub Ciupinski to write a piece that would be played in a three-story Brooklyn brownstone as the audience wandered through.
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Mr. Harmon, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and former prosecutor who now runs a corporate investigations firm, inherited the brownstone in the 1990s along with the regulated tenants.
In this way, the saga of the classic New York brownstone that was the stage for much of this iconic movie proves that life does imitate art.
To ensure the building looked like an old brownstone from the outside, Mr. Peterson took a thin layer of real brownstone and attached it to light aluminum honeycomb.
The building at 224 E. 14th St. looks like any other on the block, but a section of the brownstone-finished facade folds into Mr. Peterson's apartment to create an open-air living room.
"People think it's weird and a novelty, but they're really sweet and really smart animals, " says Timm Chiusano, who keeps two potbellied pigs on the ground floor of his three-story brownstone in Brooklyn.
In 1995 she took her career into her own hands, flying to New York City, despite little enthusiasm from her agency, Metropolitan, which set her up in a roach-infested brownstone with two struggling German models, one of whom gave up and left.
It took art curator Eileen Tognini, 52, about 25 years and her daughter moving out to go to college before she and her husband finally turned the interior of their three-story, 2, 500-square-foot Victorian 1882 brownstone in what's called the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia into the contemporary design they'd long wanted.
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