Some townhouses

Usage examples of brownstones.

Silent brownstones rose on either side, and the wind sent trash along the gutters with a dry, skittery sound.

Here it was more thickly settled, newer brownstones abutting old wood-and-frame structures.

It was a little hole-in-the-wall of black-painted brick, shoehorned between brownstones that seemed to sag under the weight of innumerable layers of graffiti.

Across the East River, lights were coming on in the low brownstones of Brooklyn.

And the only way to get to those was to buy the land, tear down the brownstones above, and dig a foundation for a new building.

Beyond, a row of Lower East Side brownstones stood starkly in the brilliant afternoon light.

It was a neighborhood that had once been elegant until, around the turn of the century, it had slipped into the worst kind of slum, and then during Trafton's renaissance era ten years ago the neighborhood had become the target of a renewal project and was now a street of middle-class homes, all of them brownstones, some detached and some attached.