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“We’re not going anywhere,” declares Luise Stauss, a freelance art director, photo editor, and soon-to-be mother of two as she rubs her six-month baby bump. Despite the tight proportions of her two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, she has no intention of trading up for anything bigger.

Fourteen years ago, Luise and her husband, Nicholas Blechman, now the creative director of pulled up stakes in Williamsburg,

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