Linda Tours a Landmark Brownstone on Dean Street
Crown Heights, Brooklyn is home to hundreds of landmark brownstone row houses. Here’s what Linda thought of one for sale on Dean Street.
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Is Crown Heights Being Repackaged for A Different Kind of Resident?
On Saturday, June 19th 2010, I attended a rough cut screening of a new documentary by Abeni Garrett and Laurel K. Brown at the Five Myles Gallery. I’ve known Laurel since the 2009 elections. We both supported Mark Winston Griffith for City Council to represent the voters of Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights in the [...]
What’s the 411 on Crown Heights Real Estate?
Brooklyn is home to some of New York City’s oldest neighborhoods, rich in history and turn of the century row house architecture. Some of the borough’s affluent families of the late 19th and early 20th centuries built magnificent townhouses that featured treatments and details meant to rival their neighbors. Today’s home buyers are eager to [...]
172 Brooklyn Avenue: Whose in Charge of this Eye Sore?
Since 1970, this property has changed hands 15 times and had Lis Pendens (law suits) filed with property liens to foreclose for non payment of property taxes 4 times.
It experienced a Lis Pendens filing for mortgage default only once. The city has defended its claim to unpaid property taxes more times than it engaged in enforcement action through the Department of Buildings for unsafe building conditions, which only occurred 2 times (2001 & 2006). So why does it still look this way?
