Large Apartment vs. Brownstone

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Foamposite

True. And I don't think they'd be particularly easy to climb any higher than that.

Yep. If your brownstone has a stoop/staircase leading to the second floor, I recommend getting security bars on both the ground floor and second floor. Note, the security bars can be those that have a lock and can open if you want to be able to open them from the inside, etc. Higher than that and they really aren't needed.

In the brownstone where I lived, there were only security bars on the ground level. Even though there was a stood, you'd have to stretch out pretty far to get from the stoop to the windows on the second floor.

Here's a Google StreetView of the street that I grew up on in Bed Stuy. You'll see that some homeowners have bars on both the first and second floor, while others have them only on the first floor. And a few don't have bars on any floor.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/11...!4d-73.9510562

[nightcrawler]

almost all the brownstones in brooklyn, park slope, carroll gardens, etc, all have bars on thier lower garden level windows which were installed what seems like since the day the first brick was laid.