An Ocean Hill Family Is One of More Than 12,000 in Brooklyn Facing Eviction This Year
For several years, Erica Samuels has shared her Ocean Hill basement apartment with her college-age daughter Janeé, her 11-year-old pit bull Dominic and a guinea pig named Angelica. But recently, the roach and rodent problem has become so severe that she has taken in a cat off the street, whom she has nicknamed Lucky.
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Photo by Anna Bradley-Smith
How Much Would It Take to Walk Away? Locals Ask Developer, Owner of Bed Stuy’s Dangler Mansion
“Why didn’t you come to us first?” and “How much would it take for you to walk away from this building?”
The two questions, one for the owner of the Jacob Dangler mansion at 441 Willoughby Avenue in Bed Stuy and one for a developer planning to demolish it, were posed by Willoughby Avenue locals and pols outside the circa 1897 French Gothic building Sunday at a heated meeting organized by local New York City Council Member Chi Ossé.
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Carroll Gardens Brownstone With Plasterwork, Wood Burning Fireplace Asks $8.75 Million
Only two floors of this Carroll Gardens brownstone are depicted in the listing, but there are enough details to entice, including plasterwork, moldings and a marble mantel. On top of that, the house is 25 feet wide and on a corner, with four exposures on some floors.
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Boerum Hill’s Ex Lax Building Loft With Two Bedrooms, Vaulted Cork Ceiling Asks $1.85 Million
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a unit in Boerum Hill’s Ex Lax building at 423 Atlantic Avenue. The stone and brick industrial structure was built in 1890 as a bottling plant for Anheuser-Busch.
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Bay Ridge Bungalow With Garage and Three Other Open Houses to See, Starting at $1.1 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Clinton Hill, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Bay Ridge and Midwood. They range in price from $1.1 million to $1.885 million.
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