Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Skyline Views and Period Details

The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a clapboard Federal style house in Brooklyn Heights, a Williamsburg condo in a converted instrument factory and a Bed Stuy brownstone with plenty of detail.

There were multiple popular listings in Bed Stuy this week, with the rest scattered from Bay Ridge to Williamsburg. The least expensive of the bunch is a two bedroom co-op in Sunset Park for $700,000 and the most expensive a Carroll Gardens brownstone at $5.1 million.

Which would you choose?

10. Here’s a chance to own a remarkable house and a piece of Brooklyn history. It’s the Federal clapboard frame house at 24 Middagh Street that’s regularly cited as the oldest house in Brooklyn Heights, dating back to the early 19th century — circa 1829 by many an estimate. It’s fabled enough that its listing could feature pull quotes like those used in movie ads: “The queen of Brooklyn Heights houses!”

24 Middagh Street
Price: $4.995 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Jessica Buchman, Bryan Rettaliata)
One of the Oldest in Brooklyn Heights, This Federal Clapboard House Wants $4.995 Million
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9. This loft-like Williamsburg condo offers 12-foot ceilings and a corner berth that makes for striking views of the East River and the Manhattan skyline. It’s at 60 Broadway on the eighth floor of the Gretsch Building, a former musical instrument factory that was converted in 2005. The place is pretty fab on its own, but there’s also an intriguing opportunity here for the buyer who’s deep-pocketed enough to pull it off (and that’s extremely deep-pocketed).

60 Broadway
Price: $2.995 million
Area: Williamsburg
Broker: Corcoran (Jennifer Carlson, Roni Dotan)
Williamsburg Three-Bedroom Condo in Former Factory With East River Views Asks $2.995 Million
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8. Here’s a massive circa 1905 brownstone and brick home on St. Marks Avenue between Nostrand and Rogers avenues in Crown Heights. It is in the best shape of the bunch and may need very little work at all depending on your tastes and needs. The home is five stories and is divided up into an owner’s duplex with a finished cellar and three apartments above.

688 Saint Marks Avenue
Price: $3.2 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Howard Ramlal)
A Reno With Details and Three With Potential to See This Weekend, Starting at $899K
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7. Here’s a big one — a circa-1854 Carroll Gardens brownstone that measures a whopping 34 feet wide, offering almost 6,000 square feet. It’s one of five such houses that stand in a row on the block, between Henry and Hicks streets. Some detail remains within: crown moldings, plaster medallions, a grand curved staircase with a round, detail-adorned skylight at the peak. A good deal of what once must have been there is lost, though, including on the facade.

16 2nd Place
Price: $5.1 million
Area: Carroll Gardens
Broker: Corcoran (Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf, Cara Sadownick)
Extra-Wide Carroll Gardens Brownstone With Four Kitchens, Front Garden Asks $5.1 Million
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6. Here’s a genuine two-bedroom in Sunset Park, something that doesn’t come along every day. And it’s a nice one, with prewar details and in perfect move-in shape. In a four-story, 16-unit building, it’s well located to boot, right across from the neighborhood’s titular park. There are views of said park from the living and dining rooms, which are bright and spacious and have high ceilings and nice original wood floors.

570 44th Street #11
Price: $700,000
Area:Sunset Park
Broker: Halstead (Joanna Mayfield Marks)
Spacious Two-Bedroom Co-op in Sunset Park With Views, Prewar Details Wants $700K
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5. Here’s a prewar two-family brick row house with an attached garage on 12th Avenue in Kensington. It’s got a unit on each floor, with two bedrooms below, three above. The lower unit is duplexed with a family room in the “partially finished” basement, which also holds laundry, a full bath and a passageway to the garage. Condition looks decent, though the pictures aren’t extensive.

3382 12th Avenue
Price: $1.325 million
Area: Kensington
Broker: Corcoran (Paul Gracie, Dwayne Powell)
Italianate Brownstone in Bed Stuy and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $940K
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4. From what we can see of it — which isn’t a whole lot — this would appear to be a particularly choice Bed Stuy brownstone, loaded with original detail. It’s well located to boot, on a nice Stuy Heights block, at 575 Macon Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard and Patchen Avenue. Built circa 1899, the house is a looker from the outside, with a faux-mansard roof and some Romanesque Revival details.

575 Macon Street
Price: $2.3 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Howard Ramlal)
Bed Stuy Brownstone With Seven Mantels, Ornate Built-ins, Radiant Heat Asks $2.3 Million
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3. On Jefferson Avenue in Bed Stuy we find a three-story with an interesting aluminum-sided facade, which is having its first showing. This one’s been recently renovated, and not by a flipper, with new kitchens and baths, new windows, new floors and central air conditioning. The renovations extend to the roof, which is new, and the newly rebuilt storage shed in the rear.

966 Jefferson Avenue
Price: $1.299 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Eve Levine, Paul Rosen)
Italianate Brownstone in Bed Stuy and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $940K
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2. This one’s in Bay Ridge, on Mackay Place, a two-block stretch near Owl’s Head Park, the waterfront and the Narrows Botanical Garden. A brick row house, this one is rather small — 1216 square feet all told — but it’s cute, renovated and in fine condition. It’s got your basic single-family layout: living room, dining room and kitchen below, three bedrooms and a single bath above.

44 Mackay Place
Price: $940,000
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Corcoran (Carol Singh)
Italianate Brownstone in Bed Stuy and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $940K
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1. In Bed Stuy on Monroe Street, we’ve got an Italianate brownstone, twenty feet wide, dating to 1899, according to the listing. The condition here is a mystery, as the photos reveal nothing other than the exterior and a few close-ups of details, including a unique mantel with painted detailing. The listing indicates that some work has been done, but the buyer can count on doing a lot more.

299 Monroe Street
Price: $1.625 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Bette L. Cunningham, Anthony T. Crews)
Italianate Brownstone in Bed Stuy and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $940K
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