Remember when Lucy tells Charlie Brown that all she really wants for Christmas is real estate? I get it now. From this week’s Briefly Noted review of “The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn,” by Suleiman Osman:
Today, Brooklyn real estate is among the most expensive and coveted in the nation.
Read this week’s Brieflier Noted to hear more about why two-bedroom apartments in Brooklyn sell for $1.2 million.
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women.
I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico.
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