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The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a wood frame in Sunset Park, a row house in Bed Stuy, and a house in Ditmas Park. Listings popular with readers were scattered around the borough, from Marine Park to Brooklyn Heights. The least expensive property for sale on the list is a house in East New York asking $595,000 and the most expensive is a Clinton Hill manse priced at $9.85 million. Which would you choose?

Popular stories include a hold on demo for the South Bushwick Reformed Church, a Flatbush rental on the market, and more news. The status of the demolition on Friday, July 10. Photo by Susan De Vries City Will Demolish All of Bushwick Church as FDNY Probes Possible Arson This afternoon, FDNY fire marshals said the cause of the fire at the South Bushwick Reformed Church is “incendiary,” a department spokesperson told Brownstoner, meaning they are investigating it as an arson.

Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Clinton Hill, Midwood Park, Midwood, and East Flatbush. The house at 1917 Glenwood Road in Midwood Park. Photo via Brown Harris Stevens Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Clinton Hill, Midwood Park, Midwood, and East Flatbush. They range in price from $699,000 to $3.15 million.

Close Brooklyn in Your Inbox Stay up to date with more great news and articles like this one. Thank you for subscribing! Email This article was originally published on July 15 at 3:44 p.m. EDT by THE CITY REPORTER City Comptroller Mark Levine on Wednesday launched a comprehensive audit of nearly a quarter-billion dollars in no-bid migrant shelter contracts the city awarded to a nonprofit group called BHRAGS Home Care whose leaders have been indicted on corruption charges.

Gravesend NYCHA complex unveils city’s first cork playground, Sunset Park demo damages community center next door, and more Brooklyn news.

On the third floor of a Carroll Gardens brownstone, this two-bedroom has some elegant original details, including a white marble mantel and wide plank floors. The three-story, six-unit building at 74 3rd Place is a bit of a mystery. On a typical Carroll Gardens street of townhouses, 74 3rd Place stands out for its 38-foot width, low stoop, and unusually fine brownstone facade striped with alternating bands of smooth and stippled stone.

The 1,100-square-foot loft had been one open, partition-less space since the century-old building’s conversion from a former soap factory to residential condo units in 2012 — a rectangular box with four windows on one of its short ends. “With windows only along the north facade, walling off separate rooms would have choked off light to the rest of the space,” said architect/interior designer Brian Cash, who came on board at the behest of the homeowners, a creative young couple.

by Ethan Stark-Miller, amNY Do you have thoughts on the MTA’s Interborough Express light rail project? Do you want to learn more about it? Then you’re in luck. The transit authority is hosting a series of pop-up events along the proposed IBX route this summer. The workshops began earlier this month and will run through September. Close Brooklyn in Your Inbox Stay up to date with more great news and articles like this one.

When your first apartment is a lemon, a community mural bridges the past and future of Bed Stuy, and more Brooklyn news. Photo of the Day: Downtown Brooklyn. Photo by Susan De Vries

The innovative complexes developed by 19th century reformer Alfred Tredway White to improve worker housing are a special feature of Brooklyn, fascinating and alluring, but most present a puzzle of how to shoehorn in needed fixtures of modern living. This diminutive one-bedroom in Cobble Hill Towers at 439 Hicks Street does it better than most, thanks to a clean-lined renovation that spotlights a curving brick wall, fireplace, and wood floors.