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CONTENTS
BROWNSTONER S PRING/SUMMER 2020
DEPARTMENTS
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NEWS CURRENTS
How Designer Farai Simoyi
Created One of Brooklyn’s
Most Innovative Shops
Green-Wood Cemetery’s
Landscape Inspires Artist
Athena LaTocha
Gowanus-Based Archipelago
Books Travels the World
for Titles
Editor’s Letter
Photo Finish
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HAPPENINGS
Spring Greens
FOOD
Shannon Mustipher
Reimagines the Cocktail
Shannon Mustipher’s Kill
Devyl Reef Cocktail
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On the cover: A Prospect-Lefferts Gardens dining room with splendid original details shows off decorative painting
and antiques. Photo by Lesley Unruh. Clockwise from top left: Designer Farai Simoyi at The Narativ in Bed Stuy. Photo
by Susan De Vries. Shannon Mustipher’s Kill Devyl Reef cocktail. Photo by Noah Fecks. A colorful den in a Bed Stuy
townhouse. Photo by David A. Land.
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