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Two-story great room with tall windows and a colorful rug at 208 Vanderbilt Ave

This Week's Review · Fort Greene · Townhouse

If a home could say "fck off,"* this is it.

A $5M Fort Greene townhouse with an aggressively anti-social facade and a monastic interior. For your money you can broadcast your need for inner peace, loudly, to every passer-by on Vanderbilt.

By Catherine Spence § 208 Vanderbilt Ave

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