Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A Bishop's Brownstone and a Pre-Civil War Wood-Frame

This week, the top 10 listings on Brownstoner included the house of Brooklyn’s first Catholic bishop, a wood-frame house that dates from before the Civil War, and a carriage-style home in Red Hook.

There were a few popular listings in Bed Stuy this week, with the rest scattered across the borough. The cheapest home on the list was a two-family in Sunset Park asking $1.4 million, and the most expensive was a Park Slope limestone asking $4.95 million.

Which would you choose?

10. On Greene Avenue in the Clinton Hill Historic District is a corner brownstone with a number of points of distinction. It’s got two addresses, for starters, with a separate entrance on Vanderbilt Avenue, leading to the lower duplex via the brick-walled back yard. It has an interesting pedigree — it was built circa 1878 and was the home of Brooklyn’s first Roman Catholic bishop, Bishop Louglin.

101 Greene Avenue
Price: $2.995 million
Area: Clinton Hill
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Adam Zinberg, Emily Matles, Mina Kim)
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9. Here’s a Bed Stuy brownstone that’s newly renovated — and not by flippers. Some care and expense went into updating this one, a late 19th century Romanesque Revival that sits at 611 Macon Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard and Patchen Avenue. Twenty feet wide, it’s a two-family, with a one-bedroom rental on the garden level and a three-bedroom duplex above.

611 Macon Street
Price: $1.85 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Christine Toes Muldoon, Gulnara Yunussova)
Bed Stuy Brownstone With Sleek Kitchen Reno, Original Details Asks $1.85 Million
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8. Here’s a Ditmas Park Edwardian with a ton of space, some fetching details and a sweet wraparound porch. Dating back to 1903, it’s in the Ditmas Park Historic District, at 444 East 17th Street, at the corner of Ditmas Avenue. Such houses tend to be large, but this one goes to 11 in that regard. Even a large family would be hard pressed to fill this space.

444 East 17th Street
Price: $3.85 million
Area: Ditmas Park
Broker: Corcoran (Laura Rozos)
Ditmas Park Edwardian With Six Mantels, Wraparound Porch, Garage Asks $3.85 Million
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7. Moving over to Sunset Park, on 48th Street we’ve got a two-family brownstone between 5th and 6th Avenues. We don’t see a lot of these coming up for sale in this neck of the woods. This one’s a three-story — there’s no floor plan, but the listing describes the layout as follows: “3 bedrooms over 3 bedrooms and a bathroom on each of the three floors.”

530 48th Street
Price: $1.4 million
Area: Sunset Park
Broker: Elite Connect (Avi Dynov)
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6. A three-story awaits in nearby Prospect Heights, on Bergen Street. This one’s a two-family with a garden rental, whose kitchen is housed in a rear extension. The bright upper duplex has an open plan living floor and three small-ish bedrooms upstairs. There’s exposed brick, new windows throughout, basement laundry, and a wooden deck with steps down to a nice garden.

626 Bergen Street
Price: $2.495 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Nadine Adamson, Kelsey Hall)
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5. Next up is a four-story brick house on Halsey Street in Stuyvesant Heights. This one is set up as an investment property, with an apartment on each floor. The house has renovated kitchens with new appliances, recessed lighting, exposed brick, and an intercom system; new hardwood floors and windows were installed in 2008 and the boiler and hot water heater are fairly recent.

615 Halsey Street
Price: $1.795 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Shakira CoPenny)
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4. Next up is a single-family limestone on 3rd Street in Park Slope, which has been given an arty, modern makeover by the firm Rigg Design, which pairs the houses original details with some interesting finishes: “today’s cutting edge melds seamlessly into 19th century elegance,” says the listing. Take the dining room, where original wainscoting sits next to a fireplace.

556 3rd Street
Price: $4.95 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker:Brown Harris Stevens (Saul Evan Shapiro, Annie Rose)
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3. Next stop is Dean Street in Boerum Hill, where we find a wood-frame house that dates to the 1850s, according to the listing. It’s got original details including tin ceilings wide plank floors, and marble mantles; condition looks decent but it could probably use some updating.

361 Dean Street
Price: $2.8 million
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Companss (Jessica Fields, Alexandra Foucard)
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2. This stop is Red Hook, where we find a brick, carriage-style house on King Street. It’s cozy and distinctive, with some interesting features, including a garage space that’s currently used as an art studio, a steel and oak staircase, a living room with 14-foot ceilings and a polished-concrete floor, a mezzanine-level laundry room, a treehouse-style master bedroom with a terrace.

97 King Street
Price: $1.9 million
Area: Red Hook
Broker: Corcoran (Roni Dotan, Jennifer Carlson)
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1. On 19th Street in Greenwood Heights, we have a townhouse that’s been given a top-to-bottom modern makeover — look for the one with the bright yellow door. Whether it was rehabbed by a previous occupant or a flipper we’re not sure, but it looks brand new, with white-oak flooring, steel-railed open stairs, a gas burning fireplace and floor-to-ceiling glass at the rear.

224 19th Street
Price: $2.379 million
Area: Greenwood Heights
Broker: Dwell Residential (Isabelle Lion, Myrta Echevarria)
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