Feature: Towers are rising up all over the borough — and here are the bird’s-eye views. Read more.

House Warming: They say that first impressions are lasting impressions. So, if that’s true, why would you want a standard-issue tin mailbox nailed to the side of your house? One of the easiest ways of sprucing up your entryway — and making a good first impression on guests — is to get a spiffy letterbox. Read more.

Green Brooklyn: Through the skeleton of steel girders and piles of wood, Derek Denckla clearly sees the future of 361 Manhattan Ave. in Williamsburg. “It’s the perfect opera house,” he says, pointing out the reception area for the non-profit “Center for Performance Research,” an arts space built into the ground floor. “The perfect space to rehearse for performances at BAM’s Harvey Theater.” Read more.

Welcome Wagon: Who needs Prospect Park? The lucky buyers of this $2-million building, which sold the day it went on the market despite a less-than-prime South Slope location, will have all the nature they could possibly want in their own backyard. Read more.

Funkytown: Two erstwhile Brooklyn architects turned a run-down frame house on the border of Park Slope and Sunset Park into one of the borough’s funkiest residential buildings. Read more.

From the Editor: Welcome to the Brooklyn boom. The rest of the nation may be going through a real-estate meltdown, but Brooklyn’s housing market remains strong and surprisingly resilient. Read more.

Welcome Wagon: Shaya Boymelgreen’s Novo condos on Fourth Avenue looked good in renderings, but the reality is slighly different. Read more.

Welcome Wagon: A look at five properties valued at just around the threshold of seven figures. Read more.

The epicenter of the Brooklyn boom is Downtown Brooklyn. In the three square-miles from the Manhattan Bridge to the proposed Atlantic Yards project just beyond Downtown’s southern border, more than 57 developments are already going up or on the drawing board — a total of $9 billion in private investment. Read more.

Welcome Wagon: It’s the neighborhood no one knows what to call. Is the triangular area southeast of the Manhattan Bridge “Flattery,” meaning “Flatbush and Tillary,” as local real-estate broker Paul Murphy calls it? Read more.

My Brooklyn: I know I won’t get any sympathy by saying this, but sometimes it’s tough to be a guy who does not pay rent. I found this out last summer, when I was lucky enough to win a campus housing lottery that got me a room on the top floor of the president’s house on the leafy Pratt Institute campus in Clinton Hill. (The president, by the way, was out of town.) Read more.