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Groups of teenage students lined up outside Elander Williams’s brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn last month for an intimate tour of her cellar. — Agaton Strom For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, "A Bedford-Stuyvesant Brownstone Houses the History of the Black Experience in America," 3 Mar. 2019 The house, with four stories plus a basement, was built on the site of an older brownstone building in 1909. — Josh Barbanel, WSJ, "Turkish Tycoon Pays $22.9 Million for Midtown Townhouse," 9 Dec. 2018 Cynthia Rowley’s West Village brownstone is definitely a fun house. — Elise Taylor, Vogue, "Cynthia Rowley’s West Village Home Is Full of Unconventional Delights," 29 June 2018 This four-story, 1848 brownstone has just 15 rooms, with no check-in desk or formal lobby to speak of. — John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, "31 Best Hotels in New York City," 27 Feb. 2018 Bonsignore, 34, covers the Back Bay, Chinatown, and South Boston, where installations in brownstone apartments and high rises can be especially challenging. — Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, "She’s pulling the plug on the ‘cable guy’ stereotype," 1 June 2018 In New York, bombers hit Judge Charles C. Nott’s East 61st Street brownstone with 20 pounds of dynamite and blew 70-year-old night watchman William Boehner to pieces. — David Pietrusza, WSJ, "Bombs in the Mail Bring Echoes of Anarchism," 2 Nov. 2018 Although, there are many who can only be convinced to head to Brooklyn for birthday parties of their very best friends, brownstone house warmings of their very best friends—and Alexander Wang runway shows, apparently. — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, "Alexander Wang Takes Show on The Road," 15 Jan. 2014 The Bed-Stuy brownstone’s seller, Claudia Moran, 76, purchased the building 32 years ago. — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, "Historic Townhouse Sale in Bed-Stuy Smashes Record," 6 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brownstone.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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