CONTENTS
BROWNSTONER S PRING/SUMMER 2020
FEATURES RENOVATOR’S TOOLBOX
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Schoolteacher’s Coup
Seeking an integrated neighborhood,
a couple restores an 1899
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens row
house.
Going Back Home
An artist applies his creative
process to remaking a fire-
damaged townhouse in
Bed Stuy.
A Brief History of
Decorative Painting in
Brooklyn and Beyond
Growing Pains
Park Slope-based cartoonist
Adrian Tomine contemplates life
and work.
Eden in Brooklyn
Debuting in 1911, the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden was inspired by
the City Beautiful movement.
Art Space
Incorporating found debris, Jack
Henry’s sculptures probe our
treatment of the natural world.
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Clockwise from top left: Decorative painting sets off parlors and an open stair hall in an 1899 townhouse in Prospect-
Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Lesley Unruh. Summer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo by Susan De Vries. Adrian
Tomine’s ‘Read-Handed’ first appeared in The New Yorker.
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