When you’re dead asleep and someone in your family sneaks downstairs for a late-night snack, the loud groan of a stair is jarring and annoying. Squeaky stairs are caused by wear and tear on the wooden ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the second installment of Pink Brownstone, a reader restoration diary. Brownstoner is delighted to publish this ongoing saga of DIY restoration of a brownstone in Bed Stuy.

I’d like to fix the squeaky stairs in my building, but I’ve gotten quotes all across the board. We tried putting screws into the board but it seems like it’s going to be a bigger job than that, and ...

QUIRKY QUIZ: What's more foreboding and tingly to the spine on a moonlit October night: a creepy stare or a creaky stair? We're bound to say both, especially if the stare hails from some sort of ...

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