This week readers visited Brick Underground to learn how a former New Yorker lived in a Brooklyn Heights garden-floor apartment with his family for nearly 20 years—and how it's nothing like living in a basement. He shares the many perks of these dwellings for young families like private outdoor space.
Also of interest: A first-time buyer upgrades from a Long Island City rental to a new condo in Brooklyn Heights.
Staff writer Austin Havens-Bowen covers the rental market and answers renters' questions in a column called Realty Bites. He previously reported on local news for the Queens Ledger and The Hunts Point Express in the Bronx. He graduated from Hunter College with a BA in media studies. He rents a one-bedroom apartment in Astoria with his boyfriend and their two cats.
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