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Friday, December 19th, 2008

Habitats: Bankrolled by a Basquiat

Mary-Ann Monforton and her husband, Morris Shuman, were drawn to continuity provided by the old families that had passed down brownstones from generation to generation in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Habitats: An Old Brownstone’s Loft Aesthetic

Deborah Marland and David Backus’s remodeled house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, which Ms. Marland has lived in since the early 1970s, feels more like a loft than a brownstone.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

The Hunt: A ‘Goldilocks’ House

Adam Frank found a brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant that needed some renovations.

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Big Deal: Rapper Dogged by Legal Woes

The town house at 2007 Fifth Avenue just below 125th Street, owned by Earl Simmons, the rapper known as DMX, is to be offered for sale at a sheriff’s auction scheduled for Wednesday.