‘Asphalt Jungle’ no more: Historic Brooklyn Heights house sheds shingles in renovation
Clapboard is making a comeback — on Willow Street.
An 1820s-vintage row house on the landmarked Brooklyn Heights street has been liberated from unsightly asphalt shingles that covered it for decades.
Now that workers have removed faded ghostly-looking shingles from the front of 113 Willow St., wood planks from a bygone era are there for all the world to see, above a basement floor covered with rosy brick.
“It’s going to be gray, the original color,” a worker told the Brooklyn Eagle of the clapboard uncovered during the renovation project. “The house will be done in three months. The interior is 80% finished.”