Listing agent Robert Browne of the Corcoran Group called the brownstone elegant, with an elegant stoop that is divided into 2 units.
"I find it to be much more interesting than the brownstone biking culture, where hipsters spend lots of money on basically designer bikes, " he said.
The building at 224 E. 14th St. looks like any other on the block, but a section of the brownstone-finished facade folds into Mr. Peterson's apartment to create an open-air living room.
Gusts of wind ripped leaves off the trees in front of the sturdy brownstone buildings.
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To ensure the building looked like an old brownstone from the outside, Mr. Peterson took a thin layer of real brownstone and attached it to light aluminum honeycomb.
In this way, the saga of the classic New York brownstone that was the stage for much of this iconic movie proves that life does imitate art.
Treachery, deceit and intrigue are rampant in Five Points, and disguised little better behind the facades of the Fifth Avenue brownstone.
Their time at the cabin contrasts dramatically with their life in Manhattan, where they rent two floors of a brownstone on the Upper West Side.
Don't you wish you had bought that prewar brownstone in the 80s off Central Park West then?
The Segway simply won't let you--unless you crash into the stoop of a brownstone town house, as I did during a brief spin around Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
For a 2010 concert, it invited composer Jakub Ciupinski to write a piece that would be played in a three-story Brooklyn brownstone as the audience wandered through.
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The apartment, in a brownstone on Fifth Avenue, has its own ground-floor entrance and a backyard garden.
People here will spend a half hour picking through bad LPs left on a brownstone stoop, or circle the block endlessly, hoping to spy on-street parking.
With the technique, the facade looks and feels like a traditional brownstone building, but it is also able to move.
"People think it's weird and a novelty, but they're really sweet and really smart animals, " says Timm Chiusano, who keeps two potbellied pigs on the ground floor of his three-story brownstone in Brooklyn.
Eight years ago the couple purchased a roughly 3, 600-square-foot, late-1800s limestone-facade brownstone from a 96-year-old woman whose family originally owned the home.
At the end of the tracks is a gate surmounted by a tower, with a brownstone wing on either side.
Exhale's polar opposite may well be the Brooklyn Yoga School, a tiny outfit housed in a charming Park Slope brownstone space with a big bay window.
"Originally in an old brownstone there would have been a parlor-floor balcony, " Mr. Peterson said of the retractable living-room wall.
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