How to blow out the back of your NYC brownstone

… with an extension  Because the work involves structural changes to a loadbearing wall it will need to be up to code … not have enough bulk to add a horizontal extensionzoning law requires at least 30 feet between your house and the … rules for adding an extension  … One of the reasons people buy townhouses as opposed to coops is the freedom to make …

By Evelyn Battaglia |May 4, 2020 - 9:30AM
Edward Norton’s ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ recalls how Robert Moses reshaped NYC in his own image

… In Motherless Brooklyn writer producer director and star Edward Norton transplants the action from the … that In the seven years between 1946 and 1954no public improvement of any type no school or sewer library or pier … is brief it comes up at a raucous community meeting where the Fort Greene residents are fighting to avoid the …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 25, 2019 - 2:00PM