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When  Reno Dakota moved to Manhattan in 1982, Brooklyn seemed as far away to him as Ohio, where he grew up. "I didn't go above 23rd Street, and I didn't go to the boroughs much," Mr. Dakota said. "I mean, Brooklyn existed, and it was completely populated. But in those days, downtown was it."

Mr. Dakota, 53, was for many years a downtown beau idéal, living in the East Village, working as a prop stylist and decorating nightclubs like Area, even inspiring a song by the Magnetic Fields about unrequited attraction. (Sample lyric: "Reno Dakota, there's not an iota of kindness in you/You know you enthrall me and yet you don't call me.")

But eight years ago, Mr. Dakota decided to buy a house with his longtime partner, Kei Yip, now 47, a sportswear designer who grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and had about as much interest in the borough as Mr. Dakota did. Priced out of their neighborhood of choice, Harlem, the couple widened their search and found an 1895 brownstone on a block of similar homes in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. They initially passed on it, because the house wasn't near the A train, an express. "We were still thinking Manhattan was the world," Mr. Dakota said. "And the most important thing was access to it."

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