I've always assumed that the Rat-Squirrel House—aka 149 Kane Street in Cobble Hill (seen today, above, and in olden times, below), Br...

If been more than five years since I spotted, and blogged about, what I thought was a rat (and turned out to be a squirrel) lounging on t...

The once infamous Rat-Squirrel House of Cobble Hill is close to looking like a structural citizen. The plywood that has covered the wind...

Half of the window lintels are complete on the slowly-but-surely back-from-the-dead Rat-Squirrel House in Cobble Hill. The one-time haunted...

For the first time in nearly three years—since the infamously derelict Cobble Hill building was declared a menace by the City, boarded up a...

Last we checked in on the slowly improving, former horror show know as the Rat-Squirrel House, it had lost its cornice and gains a new roof...

Last week I noticed that some workman chipped away the ancient cornice from the Cobble Hill public hazard known as the Rat-Squirrel House....

The Rat-Squirrel House—once the decrepit, derelict, haunted wonder of Cobble Hill, now just another fixer-upper —is getting some work done....

Looks likes the inspectors that spelunked through the infamous, sealed-up Rat-Squirrel House in Cobble Hill came back with a slightly hope...

Last we heard from Cobble Hill's notorious Rat-Squirrel House, the sealed-up ruin was being newly draped in netting and scaffolding, w...

No, but really, I was thrilled to see that the old Rat-Squirrel House , the abandoned Cobble Hill brownstone long chronicled in Lost City, m...

Nothing goes in. And nothing comes out. That's the story of the Rat-Squirrel House of Cobble Hill after last week's Kick-out-the-squ...

Squirrels, you'll have to find another flophouse. 149 Kane Street, the infamous wreck of a landmark that was raided two days ago by cit...

It was the busiest day in the life of the Rat-Squirrel House since Feb. 27, 2008, when the DOB slapped a sidewalk shed and a vacate notice...

The Rat-Squirrel House —everyone's favorite Cobble Hill eyesore—has been sitting pretty much intact since being slapped with a Vacate no...

Your bricks are red. Your shed is green. You aren't what you used to be. You're just like Christmas! Will Santa bring Rat-Squirrel-H...

It's been months since the City erected a shed around the crumbling Rat-Squirrel house at 149 Kane Street in Cobble Hill, but the tumble...

This address, 451 Henry Street, is the other Cobble Hill building owned by Arlene Karlsen, the keeper of the infamous Rat Squirrel House at...

In my months of observing the Rat-Squirrel House on Kane Street in Cobble Hill, I've never once met or seen its slippery mysterious owne...

There's not been much to report about the old Rat-Squirrel House in Cobble Hill lately. It just sits there, closed down and scaffolded ...