Popular stories on Brownstoner this week include a housing lottery in Greenpoint, houses on the market, and more Brooklyn news.

The mother of a notorious rapper, who protected his legacy since his 1997 death, has died while in hospice care.

A lava lamp, the coolest thing you ever owned as a kid, that you may have just realized you NEED again. Go ahead, turn off ...

Gay Talese was an inveterate chronicler of the New York city and all who sailed in her for more than half a century ...

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