Adriane Quinlan

Sometime last year, my block in Crown Heights started turning orange. When the sun set, our windows burned in the apricot tones of the old sodium-vapour lamps. The shift began with one window (rental building, paper lantern), but the spread was swift — up... See more

25 Cranberry Street is one of Brooklyn’s most cartoonishly quaint homes — a squat, wood-frame house covered in raw-wood shingles that peeks up through two dormer windows at its brick and brownstone neighbors in Brooklyn Heights. It shows up on an 1829 map... See more

On a Wednesday in April, a chalkboard outside the Francis Kite Club on Avenue C read, “Find Your Dream Job!” Inside, on a low stage near the center of the room, in jeans and a loose yellow sweatshirt, Rachel Meade Smith was introducing a collection of ess... See more

When a U-Haul pulled up in front of 194 Columbia Heights three days ago, the neighbors gawked. No one had been in or out of the house for decades — despite an address on one of the city’s most enviable blocks, where the view out the back looks over the pr... See more

A postcard of Fort Greene might show row after row of tightly packed brownstones, dating back to the 1850s, with views over leafy avenues. On Vanderbilt, No. 208 is only four blocks off the park, near the corner at Willoughby — a closed street that’s a su... See more