Before and After in Bed-Stuy

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman Photo: Nick Glimenakis Laura Higby and Rebecca Stubbs’s new Bed-Stuy brownstone had already lived a few lives when they bought it. And so they brought in Jordan Slocum and Barry Boredelon, a.k.a. the Brownstone Boys, who specialize in skilled and sensitive renovations that both update and preserve the unique architectural details of homes like theirs. “This is our largest restoration yet,” Slocum says. You’d be hard-pressed to tell what is restored and replaced, and what has always been there.” [Take a tour]( Best, Wendy Goodman Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. 1. [The Department of Sanitation Has an Oddly Excellent TikTok It’s full of googly-eyed snowplow trucks and earnest charm.]( By Rebecca Alter 2. [Magda Sawon Is Always Too Early The co-founder of Postmasters Gallery answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”]( By Diana Budds 3. [The Times’s ‘Hunt’ Columnist is Being Sued for Back Rent But it looks like Joyce Cohen is just trying to finish out her sublet term.]( By Kim Velsey 4. [Simply Stop Watering Your Lawn They’re gonna run out of water. And the Southampton Fire Department is nervous.]( By Choire Sicha [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing [My Week in New York](: a brand-new newsletter from the editors. [Sign up]( to get the next edition this Saturday. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=dh) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved