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HOMES Brooklyn Brownstone
arysia Woroniecka took a
lot of persuading to move
away from Manha!an.
In fact, it probably never
would have happened if it hadn’t been
for her then-husband’s persistence,
with a li!le help from none other than
Spike Lee. It was the late 1990s and
Marysia, who moved to New York from
London in 1995, was running around
town having a blast. She had set up her
own fashion consultancy "rm and the
The Owner newly married couple were renting a
Marysia Woroniecka, a Manha!an lo# with views of the
partner at fashion brand Empire State Building – as she says,
Zero + Maria Cornejo ‘living the dream’. And she would have
(zeromariacornejo.com), continued like this quite happily, if her
lives here. Originally from
London, Marysia has lived husband hadn’t insisted that they
in New York since 1995. should buy somewhere, and lured her
over the East River to check out his old
The Property neighbourhood of Fort Greene.
A four-storey brownstone ‘I’d grown up in Kensington, so I was
in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, very snooty about being the other side
built around 1860. Set over of the river, and didn’t want to ever feel
three floors, the property like I was living in the suburbs,’ says
has three bedrooms, two Marysia. ‘But then we were living on
bathrooms, a kitchen, living this very commercial street at 27th and
and dining room. There is Broadway, surrounded by discount
also a separate flat in
the basement. T-shirt and handbag stores, and it was
so noisy and "lthy.’ Marysia had heard
a bit about the leafy suburb of
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