In 1998, Jimmy Greenfield got a phone call from the Landmarks Preservation Commission asking whether he had registered the color he painted his door — a gunmetal gray that contrasted with the pebbly orange brick of 93 Wyckoff Street. With fanciful brickwork; odd, circular windows; and a driveway of heavy gray cobblestones, the one-story building off Smith Street looks like a whimsical 19th-century carriage house. But Greenfield only finished building the place in the 1990s. Which is why the call from Landmarks was “outrageous,” he said, laughing. “It was really the height of a compliment, that they’d imagined the building was there so long.” |
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