Licensed to Grill: Mike D's Brooklyn Town House

Inside This Beastie Boy's Brooklyn Home
NEW YORK - MAY 04: Musician Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys attends The Continuum Center for Health Organic Elegance benefit at Espace on May 4, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - MAY 04: Musician Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys attends The Continuum Center for Health Organic Elegance benefit at Espace on May 4, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Michael Diamond was sitting in his Cobble Hill town house, marveling at the virtues of a backyard. "When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly," said Mr. Diamond, better known as Mike D of the Beastie Boys. "Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside."

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