This limestone Bed Stuy townhouse, in an impeccable row of same, was perfection on the outside. Its interior, however, had hopelessly dated kitchens and baths and an old-fashioned compartmentalized ...

The bay-windowed limestone townhouse was “in poor shape,” said South Slope-based architect Ben Herzog in a masterpiece of understatement, before adding: “There had been people squatting in it, and ...