Serving Brooklyn
Gut Renovation and New Construction in Brooklyn, NY
Brownstones and rowhouses from the 1890s that need a builder who knows party walls.
Get a free quoteBrooklyn's housing stock is dominated by attached brownstones and rowhouses, most built between the 1890s and the 1920s, sharing party walls and often sitting on lots barely twenty feet wide. That construction style changes everything about how gut renovation gets done here, from how demolition debris moves out of a building to how new mechanical systems get routed through a house never designed for them.
Many blocks in Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and parts of Bed Stuy fall under landmark preservation review, which adds a layer of permitting that towns without historic districts never deal with.
Backyard space is real but limited, so outdoor projects here tend toward compact, well designed rear yards and roof decks rather than the sprawling layouts possible farther out on Long Island. New construction shows up mainly as infill on the rare open lot or as a full rebuild behind an existing facade in areas like Bay Ridge.
Where we work in Brooklyn
- Park Slope
- Carroll Gardens
- Bed-Stuy
- Bay Ridge
What Brooklyn calls us for
Gut renovation
Attached rowhouse construction with shared party walls demands a different sequencing than a detached suburban home.
New construction
Open lots are rare, so new builds here are usually infill or a rebuild behind a preserved facade.
Backyard oasis builder
Narrow rear yards call for compact, deliberate outdoor design rather than a sprawling layout.