Stephanie Golden

My house is my castle

Many old houses in Brooklyn’s brownstone neighborhoods have beautiful ironwork enclosing their yards. For example:           (Click the photos to see the details more clearly.) First-floor windows, easily accessible from the street, often have iron grilles to prevent break-ins. These too are often quite handsome. Years ago I played host to a group of visitors from a small town in Ohio who laughed merrily when they saw similar grilles on houses on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They couldn’t get over the idea that all these people were putting themselves behind bars. Imagine living like[…]

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