This post isn't about law, but it is about real estate - and since most of my legal practice has some connection to real estate, it's fair game.
Brookynites tend to identify any attached house on any block in neighborhoods such as Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant or Cobble Hill as a "brownstone". A recent post at www.BrickUnderground.com explained some nuances behind that overly used term, and pointed to a nice document at the Landmarks Preservation Commission that gives lots of interesting details on the most prevalent architectural styles one finds in "Brownstone Brooklyn.
Here is a link to the document:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/pubs/rowhouse.pdf.
And a link to the article at Brick Underground:
http://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2014/09/brooklyn_brownstone_intel
