The Brownstone is Sherlock Holmes' and Joan Watson's home, 42 Stanford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, 11209. The brownstone is owned by Sherlock Holmes' father, M. Holmes. The brownstone consists of at least three floors, a basement, and a terrace on the roof. The roof has a view of the Queensboro Bridge and the borough of Manhattan; this is also where Sherlock keeps his bees. Sherlock describes it as "the shoddiest and least renovated of the five - count them, five - properties he [Morland] owns in New York".