Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: From 19th Century Details to Modern Construction

This week’s most popular listings were quite a mix of architectural styles, construction dates and neighborhoods. Readers were drawn to everything from an 1850s transitional Greek Revival-Italianate style house in Fort Greene to a Windsor Terrace condo constructed in 2005.

While there were a couple of listings in Bed Stuy each of the other popular listings was in a different Brooklyn neighborhood, from Cobble Hill to Bushwick. Most of the listings hovered near or above the million dollar mark, but a modest house in East Flatbush was the exception with a price of $479,000. Once again, the most expensive was a Prospect Heights Renaissance Revival limestone at $3.8 million — readers have kept this one on the top 10 for weeks.

Which would you choose?

10. In Bed Stuy, we’ve got a three-story brownstone on Hancock Street. Photos are sparse and suggest that work is needed, but there are original details there that would reward the effort, including five mantels, stained glass window transoms, wainscoting, pocket doors and shutters, and plaster crown moldings. It’s currently set up as a three-family, with an apartment on each floor.

829 Hancock Street
Price: $1.25 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Joseph Martinez)
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9. On Sterling Place in the Prospect Heights Historic District is a venerable four-story circa 1901 Renaissance Revival limestone by architect Benjamin Driesler, with a barrel front. It’s got some nice original details, including Tiffany stained glass window transoms, a hallway pier mirror, leaded glass French doors, a coffered dining room ceiling, wainscoting, and a pair of fireplace mantels.

372 Sterling Place
Price: $3.8 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Suzanne Forrester
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8. Here’s an 1850s transitional Greek Revival–Italianate style townhouse in prime shape, which offers a spacious owner’s triplex with plenty of original details over a garden rental. It’s in the Fort Greene Historic District at 346 Carlton Avenue between Lafayette and Greene avenues, close to the Lafayette C train stop.

346 Carlton Avenue
Price: $3.7 million
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Joan Goldberg)
Fort Greene Townhouse with Ornate Cornices, Marble Mantels Asks $3.7 Million
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7. This stop is Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, where we land on a narrowish (16.5 feet) three-story brick house with a bay front. It’s set up as a two-family, with a three-bedroom duplex over a one-bedroom garden rental. Condition seems to be mixed — what’s shown is in fine shape, including original hardwood floors in excellent repair and an original center staircase.

285 Empire Boulevard
Price: $975,000
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Compass (Jim Winters, Ali Raza)
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6. This two-bedroom Windsor Terrace condo has large spaces, triple exposures, a terrace, and a berth near the southernmost corner of Prospect Park. It’s in the Park Circle condo building at 346 Coney Island Avenue, an 11-year-old building with nine floors and 59 units.

346 Coney Island Ave, #306
Price: $995,000
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Corcoran (Calvin Gladen, Michael Rohrer)
Windsor Terrace Condo With Triple Exposures, Outdoor Space Asks $995K
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5. This iconic Gothic brick and rarely available townhouse at 26 Warren Place sits in one of Brooklyn’s most sought after communities, Cobble Hill’s Warren Place Mews. Built by philanthropist Alfred Tredway White in 1879 as worker housing, the diminutive but coveted properties share a front landscaped garden and backyard space.

26 Warren Place
Price: $2.049 million
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Brooklyn Bridge Realty (Ellen Gottlieb)
Rare Warren Place Mews House With Rooftop Terrace in Cobble Hill Asks $2.049 Million
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4. Moving over to Bushwick, we find an aluminum-sided frame house in need of work. The images show a garden level living room in good shape, with a wood floor and tin ceiling, but elsewhere attention is called for; the house is “ready to be reimagined,” says the listing. It’s a three-story with front and rear bay windows, twenty feet wide, with just over 2,800 square feet; currently it’s configured as a lower duplex and upper rental.

235 Covert Street
Price: $995,400
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Saul Evan Shapiro)
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3. Next up is Bed Stuy, where we encounter a 20-foot brownstone on Madison Street. As with many a Bed Stuy listing, this one’s a flip, newly renovated from top to bottom, with an owner’s triplex over a garden rental. Some original details were preserved, including a huge pier mirror and the original staircase. The parlor floor was opened up, as is the current custom; in the rear is a deluxe kitchen.

582 Madison Street
Price: $2.55 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Joseph Martinez)
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2. This one is a two-family frame house in the South Slope on Webster Place, a quiet, block-long street that runs between 16th Street and Prospect Avenue. A three-bedroom duplex over a garden rental, it’s renovated in a modern style, with new dark-stained floors. The duplex has an open plan living space with an open steel staircase and a glass wall in the rear. There’s a steel-railed deck and a tree-shaded yard.

20 Webster Place
Price: $2.595 million
Area: South Slope
Broker: Halstead (Maria Mackin)
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1. This one is in East Flatbush, and a single family brick row house on East 51st Street. Or maybe you could call it a two-family — there’s a basement apartment that the listing asserts is “legalized”. Either way, it’s a modest home that looks like it could be lived in as-is, but would benefit from some updating.

534 East 51st Street
Price: $479,000
Area: East Flatbush
Broker: Charles Rutenberg, LLC (Rhonda Holt)
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