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Actor Edward Norton trying to save historic Brooklyn mansion from destruction
Alec Baldwin, left, and Edward Norton in "Motherless Brooklyn." - Warner Bros./TNS/TNS

Actor Edward Norton trying to save historic Brooklyn mansion from destruction

NEW YORK — Actor Edward Norton is starring in a real-life drama about a community effort to save a beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant mansion from the wrecking ball. Norton has sided with residents and advocates who have appealed to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Committee to stop developers from turning the 120-year-old Willoughby Avene mansion, known as the Jacob Dangler House, into a condominium complex. “I believe this house, which has served a shifting but significant purpose for over a century, should absolutely be viewed as not just a spiritual and aesthetic connection to the past but as a m...

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