Type of House
What type of house did Troy did her family live in?
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I've always wondered about that. It looks huge. I live in SoCal so I'm not familiar with those kinds of houses.
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I think it's a brownstone. There are a lot of them in brooklyn. Often the houses are so big you can rent out your top floor, as the family was doing in the movie.
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Yes, it is a brownstone. I live in the south and we have very few of them here too. My college roommate was from Brooklyn and she grew up in a brownstone. Her mother rented out the bottom level. Years later she sold it for a mint too.
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we call them townhouses here in new england.
I think townhouses are different from brownstones. Brownstones are often stone based with a stoop where as a townhouse isn't always that. My fiancee grew up in a brownstone and we're probably going to get one.
shareBrownstone refers to the color of sandstone often used in building Brooklyn rowhouses. Here in Boston granite, especially Roxbury puddingstone granite; is the dominant material. Spike Lee grew up in Fort Green before gentrification. The white musician living in the step-down is very typical of the kind of white guy who would live in a black neighborhood in the 70's. That little touch of accuracy is one of the things that makes this movie special. I am the same age as Spike Lee.
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