Behind the walls of a handsome brownstone in this city's historic heart lives a man whose career has tracked the fortunes of the cigarette business and its dark contradictions.

They came to a handsome brownstone on 10th Street, on the elegant block between Fifth Sixth Avenues.

In Bay Ridge, there were handsome brownstones, well-kept private homes, neat little restaurants, people standing around on corners.

Hank Morgan lived in a handsome brownstone that had been divided into two duplexes; he wondered how she could afford it.

Heady with civic pride and their own prosperity, many townspeople built rambling Victorian mansions and handsome brownstones for public and commercial use.

The community is a mix of stately old homes, handsome brownstones, walk-up apartment buildings, rundown frame houses and towering projects.

The area, presently gentrifying, can boast of some of Brooklyn's most handsome and historic brownstones and grand old apartment buildings.

Just to the south is Striver's Row, two well-appointed streets of handsome brownstones.

The Athenaeum's exterior - handsome brownstone, less costly than marble but a superb building material - is known as astylar, meaning it lacks columns or pilasters.

Also to the east are the handsome brownstones of Hamilton Heights.