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Tag Archives: Prospect Park
New Year’s in New York
AS THE OLD YEAR CAME TO A CLOSE, I said goodbye to my beloved East Hampton cottage — at least for a year, perhaps forever. Yet as I drove away on December 15, leaving it to my new renters — … Continue reading
Paths Less Traveled in Prospect Park
I ALWAYS THOUGHT the Boathouse was one of the most romantic buildings in Prospect Park. No, in Brooklyn. No, anywhere. The 1907 Beaux Arts structure sits on a pond called the Lullwater, which also sounds impossibly romantic in the manner … Continue reading
Prospect Heights in Today’s Times
THE NEWSPAPER OF RECORD has become the newspaper of the obvious. Today’s “Living in…” column on my recently adopted Brooklyn neighborhood of Prospect Heights, in the Sunday New York Times Real Estate section, tells me nothing useful or surprising, and … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged Aaron Copland, Avenue, brownstones, New York Times, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, REAL ESTATE, Vanderbilt, Washington
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Park Slope A to Z
AT FIRST I THOUGHT this was going to be a hopelessly random post, a mash-up of recent photos I wanted to share but that had no particular organizing principle. Only when I looked at them all together I realized the … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, BROOKLYN
Tagged 19th century, bay windows, botanic gardens, BROOKLYN, brownstones, Cafe Regular, carriage houses, Juventino, mansions, Park Slope, Prospect Park, stained glass
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