Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Landmarked Homes, Brownstones and a Carriage House

This week’s top listings not only spanned a wide price range, they also showed off Brooklyn’s eclectic taste in architecture. There was a converted carriage house among the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights, a landmarked Romanesque Revival, and even a few true brownstones (even if one needs actual brownstoning).

There were multiple listings in Bed Stuy and Prospect Heights. The prices of this week’s top 10 went from six digits to eight – the cheapest home was a two-bedroom co-op in Prospect Heights asking $895,000 and the most expensive was the Brooklyn Heights carriage house asking $10 million.

Which would you choose?

10. This landmarked four-story Renaissance/Romanesque Revival brownstone on Sterling Place in Prospect Heights needs a bit of tending, but it’s a serious looker, loaded with original woodwork and other detail. Built circa 1897, it was designed by William H. Reynolds, whose Prospect Heights brownstones are “among the most beautiful and desirable homes in Brooklyn,” as Suzanne Spellen noted in this writeup.

321 Sterling Place
Price: $3.695 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Century 21 (Gamal Hasan)
Landmarked Prospect Heights Brownstone With Details Galore Asks $3.695 Million
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9. Here’s a distinctive domicile — a 19th-century Brooklyn Heights carriage house on coveted Grace Court Alley that’s gotten a thorough and modern renovation, presumably with no expense spared, by the architecture firm Baxt Ingui.

6 Grace Court Alley
Price: $10 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Brian Lehner)
Luxe Heights Carriage House With Radiant-Heated Patio, Glass-Walled Penthouse Asks $10 Million
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8. This stately 1910 limestone is in beautiful shape, with well-preserved original details and some eye-popping updates. It’s at 542 3rd Street, smack in the center of Park Slope, and a block and a half from Prospect Park.

542 3rd Street
Price: $4.75 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Compass (Libby Ryan, Maria Ryan)
Landmarked Park Slope Limestone With Mantels, Marble, La Cornue Stove Asks $4.75 Million
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7. The one is at 40 New York Avenue in Bed Stuy, a four-story, 22-foot-wide Italianate brownstone (albeit one in need of actual brownstoning). A legal three-family, it’s set up as a single residence, with the kitchen on the top floor. This one needs work, and quite possibly a lot, but the few photos are tantalizing, showing marble fireplaces, some ornate crown moldings, pocket shutters, and other detail.

40 New York Avenue
Price: $1.699 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Jevon Gratineau, Erica Liss)
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6. Step inside this artfully renovated and imposing 1881 corner-lot brownstone with a distinctive mansard roof at 1 Verona Place in Bed Stuy and you will see oodles of apparently original historic detail and modern kitchens and baths. But take a closer look.

1 Verona Place
Price: $3.25 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Libby Ryan, Maria Ryan)
Could This Landmarked Neo-Grec With Extravagant Custom Design Set a New Bed Stuy Record?
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5. This prewar Prospect Heights two-bedroom co-op is gracious and attractive, with generous spaces and a functional layout. It’s on the second floor of a 78-unit elevator building at 175 Eastern Parkway, a worthy location directly across the street from the Brooklyn Museum.

175 Eastern Parkway, #2K
Price: $895,000
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Brian Giambalvo, Michael Tannen)
Jazz-Age Prospect Heights Two-Bedroom Co-op Across From Brooklyn Museum Asks $895K
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4. An investment property awaits on Vanderbilt Avenue in Clinton Hill, where we find a four-story brownstone that holds no fewer than seven units. It’s also a flip, bought last year and newly renovated. Whether the units fall under any rent regulation laws may require some detective work; the listing doesn’t specify either way. HPD calls the units “Class B”; a 1996 certificate of occupancy merely says they are “ordinary apartments.” In any case, the brownstone has a three-bedroom floor-through on the bottom, with a windowless kitchen/dining room in the interior; the upper floors each hold a pair of studio apartments.

299 Vanderbilt Avenue
Price: $2.95 million
Area: Clinton Hill
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Stephanie O’Brien, Jessica Peters, Allison Dubuisson)
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3. On Carroll Street in the Columbia Street Waterfront District is a four-story of recent vintage, built in 2008. It’s a four-story with four units, each with its own boiler, hot water tank and washer/dryer, so it’s well suited to be an investment property. The units have radiant heated concrete floors, exposed brick and kitchens with maple cabinetry and marble countertops; each also has an outdoor space, ranging from a very small terrace to a 40-foot-deep backyard. There’s an interior garage that shares the ground floor with the split-level lower unit.

37 Carroll Street
Price: $3.5 million
Area: Columbia Street Waterfront District
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Jerry Minsky, Adam Zinberg, Emily Matles)
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2. Next up is a two-family brownstone on Van Buren Street in Bed Stuy. This one’s a bit of a hodgepodge, with a bit of original detail and charm alongside some drab renovation. A good rehab candidate, it’s got a three-bedroom lower duplex with a one-bedroom rental on the top floor, and a neglected backyard accessed via a rear bedroom.

278 Van Buren Street
Price: $1.35 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: World Wide Homes (Julie Kirkland)
Four Move-In Ready Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.35 Million
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1. On Jefferson Avenue in Bushwick we’ve got a newly gut-renovated townhouse. It’s set up with a two-bedroom rental below a three-bedroom owner’s triplex, the latter featuring the usual open-plan parlor floor, with a granite-countered kitchen in the rear, and a glass door leading to a rear porch. There’s central air, washer/dryer hookups, a video intercom system, LED lighting and a “widely popular thermostat system.” The listing also claims a roof deck, which could also be described as a regular roof with a rail around it.

1210 Jefferson Avenue
Price: $1.35 million
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Bedford Brownstone Realty (Nathan Pinsky)
Four Move-In Ready Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.35 Million
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