New York

On SecondShelters.com: Bestselling Author’s Brooklyn Digs Are a Book Lover’s Dream

By Joanna England / January 18, 2018 /

Nestled on a picturesque, tree-lined street in Boerum Hill – a relaxed village in the northwestern portion of Brooklyn, New York – rests an incredibly chic, Greek Revival brownstone that is a book lover’s dream, and it could be yours to the tune of $8.995 million. “This is one of the single largest homes that…

Read More

On SecondShelters.com: New York Home Once Housed Family of Early U.S. Settlers

By Bethany Erickson / December 1, 2017 /

A home that has its foundation — literally — with one of the first settlers in what would become the United States is now up for grabs in New York. Known as the Teunis Slingerland house, the original homestead was built after Teunis Slingerland purchased almost 10,000 acres of land near the Hudson River from a…

Read More

Wednesday WTF: Howdy Podnah, Want a Mushroom?

By Bethany Erickson / November 1, 2017 /

This week’s Wednesday WTF has me conflicted. I mean, the house is definitely unusual and shaped like several mushrooms, but it’s also really kind of cool. Meet the Mushroom House. Located in Pittsford, New York, it is 4,100 square feet of IDK and 68 square feet of WTF, and was built between 1970 and 1972,…

Read More

On SecondShelters.com: Contract Out on Former Park Slope Home of Al Capone

By Bethany Erickson / October 6, 2017 /

The former childhood home of Al Capone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, now offers plenty of income potential in the form of two one-bedroom apartments and one three-bedroom home. This week’s historical shelter has been on the market for a little more than 100 days. While someone’s finally put an offer in…

Read More

Does It Make Sense to Tear Out a Highway in Downtown Dallas? TxDOT Said No

By Candy Evans / February 4, 2014 /

Bye bye Miss American Pie, see the potential life under the old highway? There has been talk, a lot of talk, about removing a section of highway in downtown Dallas. Tear it out, get rid of the concrete somehow (landfill?), and then fill in the space formerly occupied by said highway with development. The proponent…

Read More