Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A New Townhouse and a Quaint Mews House

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a mews house in Cobble Hill, a barrel-fronted limestone in Crown Heights and a luxe condo in Brooklyn Heights.

There are several listings in Bed Stuy, but the rest are scattered across the borough. The least expensive is a detail-filled Bed Stuy rental at $4,000 a month and the most expensive is a new Williamsburg townhouse at $7.495 million.

Which would you choose?

10. Here’s an opportunity to buy a mews house on much-coveted Verandah Place, the quaint, oft-Instagrammed and generally beloved row of 19th century houses that faces Cobble Hill Park. This one is No. 20, a three-story dating to the late 1850s that’s currently set up as a double duplex. It’s hard to get a full picture of this one, with limited photos and no floor plan.

20 Verandah Place
Price: $4.95 million
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Halstead (Andrew Friedman)
Mews House in Cobble Hill’s Charming Verandah Place Asks $4.95 Million
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9. Here’s a two-bedroom spread in the Standish, the former apartment hotel at 171 Columbia Heights that’s being turned into ultra-expensive condos sporting East River views. The 12-story Beaux Arts building has an interesting history — Superman once lived here, for one thing. Designed by Frank S. Lowe and built in 1903, it was originally called the Standish Arms, which DC Comics fans will recognize as the name of the building where Clark Kent dwelled in Room 5H.

171 Columbia Heights
Price: $2.435 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran
Brooklyn Heights Two-Bedroom Condo in Superman’s Building Asks $2.435 Million
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8. This duplex in an 1890 Bed Stuy brownstone checks a lot of boxes: It’s lovely, spacious, well appointed, reasonably priced and carries no fee. And it’s well located to boot, on a nice brownstone-lined block of Jefferson Street in Stuy Heights. The upper duplex of two in the house, it’s full of period details in top shape.

625 Jefferson Avenue #2
Price: $4,000 a month
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Morgan Munsey, Donna Myrie)
Stunning Duplex in Bed Stuy Brownstone With Minton-Style Tiles Asks $4,000 a Month
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7. This newly built townhouse in Williamsburg offers top-end finishes, modern design and an expansive single-family living space, for the kind of big-ticket buyer that would have been a stranger to this nabe not long ago. It’s at 138 North 1st Street, off of Bedford Avenue. It’s got 4,800 square feet spread over five levels, spanned by an iron-railed staircase with a skylight at the top.

138 North 1st Street
Price: $7.495 million
Area: Williamsburg
Broker: Corcoran (Bruce Henderson, Michelle Maryk, Jeremy Arwas)
New Williamsburg Townhouse With Floors From Domino Sugar Factory Asks $7.495 Million
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6. This cute Flatbush two-bedroom offers a decent amount of space for the price and low monthly maintenance charges, in a prewar building. It’s on the fifth floor of the Clinton Houses, a six-story, 113-unit building close to Brooklyn College. It’s “a legal one-bed, one-bath, defined as a two-bed,” says the listing, which is to say it started life with a single large bedroom that has been chopped into two.

657 East 26th Street #5E
Price: $339,500
Area: Flatbush
Broker: Corcoran (Toni Martin)
Spacious Prewar Co-op in Flatbush With Deco Flair, Shared Courtyard Asks $339,500
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5. A three-story house 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)
Four Charming Move-In Ready Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.795 Million
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4. Next up, a six-bedroom Victorian with a wraparound terrace on the cul de sac Waldorf Court in West Midwood. This one needs work, which is made clear both by the listing and the sole photo, which shows an exterior in need of attention. It’s an interesting facade, though, which backs up the listing’s contention that the house offers “some unique architecture that you won’t find anywhere else in the neighborhood.”

20 Waldorf Court
Price: $1.6 million
Area: West Midwood
Broker: Citi Habitats (Jonathan Ben-Ami)
Classic Stuy Heights Brownstone and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.299 Million
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3. This barrel-fronted limestone on New York Avenue in Crown Heights has a front garden and a handsome facade. This one’s in rough shape and needs considerable work, even if the price tag doesn’t necessarily indicate it. Original detail is minimal, and may not be salvageable — there seems to be a lot of space though. At the moment it’s a two-family with an apartment on each floor.

370 New York Avenue
Price: $1.395 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Kings Realty (Aldo Valmon Clark)
Classic Stuy Heights Brownstone and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.299 Million
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2. In Bed Stuy we’ve got a three-story brownstone on Jefferson Avenue, on the market for the first time in three decades. There’s original detail within, including several mantels, pocket doors, parquet floors, original entry doors and crown moldings. The condition is fair; it could possibly be livable with some polishing, though it could also be a candidate for a more extensive makeover.

406 Jefferson Avenue
Price: $1.299 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Loretta M. Nastasi-Rivera)
Classic Stuy Heights Brownstone and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.299 Million
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1. On Throop Avenue in Bed Stuy we’ve got a three-story, semi-detached brick townhouse that’s newly renovated. It’s got a more traditional feel than your average flip, with dark-stained woodwork, a carved newel post, exposed brick and a giant, columned pier mirror in the kitchen that may be original, may have been repurposed from elsewhere or may have just been built to look that way.

405 Throop Avenue
Price: $1.75 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Nest Seekers (Sara Golan, Ryan Serhant)
Classic Stuy Heights Brownstone and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.299 Million
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