Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A Parfitt Brothers Brownstone and a Bushwick Flip

This week’s top 10 listings on Brownstoner included a shingled row house in Greenpoint, a Parfitt Brothers brownstone in Prospect Heights, and a Bed Stuy brownstone with Minton-style tiles.

There were several popular listings in Bed Stuy, with the rest scattered across the borough. The cheapest home in the top 10 was an $895,000 townhouse in Crown Heights, and the most expensive was an Italianate brick house in Gowanus asking $2.795 million.

Which would you choose?

10. This home is a charming Italianate brick townhouse on Sackett Street in Gowanus, which dates to 1880 according to the listing. It’s 20 feet wide, but only 35 feet deep, so it’s not exactly cavernous, but it’s got an inviting interior, with wide-plank floors, arched door frames, ceiling medallions, crown moldings and marble mantels.

439 Sackett Street
Price: $2.795 million
Area: Gowanus
Broker: Compass (Aaron Seawood, Anthony Severino)
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9. The next one’s on 8th Avenue, between Prospect Avenue and 17th Street. This one’s as narrow as they come — a mere 12 and a half feet wide. And it’s only got two floors plus a basement, so if you’ve got a large family, move along. More wide-plank floors in this one, along with exposed brick and an original stone mantel.

1676 8th Ave
Price: $1.25 million
Area: Greenwood Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Lisa A. Garcia)
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8. Here’s a Bed Stuy brownstone that’s loaded with period detail — most notably mantels. At 629 Putnam Avenue in Stuy Heights, the house has got seven of them, including some pretty ornate Queen Anne-type numbers with mirrors, carved wood and Minton-style tiles. The late Victorian house also sports wedding-cake plaster detailing, inlaid parquet floors, ceiling medallions, crown moldings and wainscoting.

629 Putnam Avenue
Price: $1.69 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Joseph Martinez)
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7. On Putnam Avenue in Bushwick, we’ve got a three-story flip that’s been completely overhauled, from its brick facade to its wood-fenced rear garden. A bit of care seems to have gone into this one, which has some details like recessed ceilings and inlaid floors. It’s set up as a two-family, with a two-bedroom rental on the garden level (duplexed with a finished cellar) and a three-bedroom owner’s duplex above.

1280 Putnam Avenue
Price: $1.299 million
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Bedford Brownstone (Leslie Dixon)
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6. Next up is a brownstone on Stuyvesant Avenue in Bed Stuy, in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, built circa 1882. It’s a narrow one, a mere 15 feet wide. The house has been updated, with finishes not every buyer is going to flip for; there are some original details, including three fireplace mantels, though the floors, sadly, have been replaced.

333 Stuyvesant Avenue
Price: $1.345 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Stribling (Brad Bateman)
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5. This two-story townhouse on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights looks to be newly renovated. It’s very narrow, some 15 feet wide. It’s got three bedrooms on the upper floor, two quite small (one’s a mere six feet wide). There’s a living room, dining room and kitchen on the lower level, with an extra room in the rear that could be an office.

108 Utica Avenue
Price: $895,000
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Nadine Adamson, Kelsey Hall)
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4. This home is a circa 1884 brownstone in Bed Stuy, at 77 Macon Street in the Bedford Historic District. There are no interior photos for this one, so there’s a lot to be learned, but we can tell you it’s a legal two-family that looks to be set up as a single residence, with four bedrooms, a double parlor and an open plan garden floor with the kitchen in the rear. Renovated ten years ago, it retains “a sprinkling of details throughout” and is move-in ready, according to the listing.

77 Macon Street
Price: $1.595 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker:Compass (Aaron Seawood, Anthony Severino)
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3. This one’s out in Bay Ridge, on 82nd Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. It’s a brick one-family with three bedrooms, two baths and a finished basement. There’s a large wooden deck in the rear, accessible through sliding glass doors, a driveway and a detached garage that’ll fit three cars. The listing calls it “well-maintained,” and it looks it, though it’s ready for some updating, including possibly a new kitchen.

347 82nd Street
Price: $1.078 million
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Hometown Properties (Herng-Hwa L. Sheu)
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2. This two-family Prospect Heights brownstone needs work, and maybe a fair amount of it, but it could polish up into something nice. It’s at 552 Carlton Avenue in the Prospect Heights Historic District. The circa 1877 brownstone was designed by the Parfitt Brothers and, according to the listing, it’s been in the same family for the past 25 years. It’s got an upper duplex over a one-bedroom garden rental.

552 Carlton Avenue
Price: $2.3 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Stribling (Marcy Wasserman)
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1. This home is a shingled row house at 66 Jewel Street in Greenpoint. Eighteen feet wide and forty deep, it’s a two-family, with a unit on each floor — a one-bedroom below and a two-bedroom above. It’s not overloaded with charm or character, but looks to be in decent shape, for those who want to take it as is — it’s a decent candidate for a rehab though.

66 Jewel Street
Price: $1.825 million
Area: Greenpoint
Broker: Warren Lewis/Sothebys (Michael Kowachka)
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