The Restored Brownstone on Halsey Street

In 2019, a young couple in Brooklyn purchased a neglected brownstone on Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a price that stretched every dollar they had. The previous owners had covered the original marble fireplace with drywall, painted over hand-carved mahogany banisters with thick latex, and converted the parlor into a storage unit crammed with junk. The house had been treated as if it were disposable.…