Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Standalones and Brownstones

This week, Brownstoner readers were rather into brownstones, which shouldn’t be a surprise, but the most popular listings were all standalones. The most popular listing was a standalone recently renovated with an unusual feature — wide-plank Douglas fir floors imported from Denmark.

Listings in Bed Stuy were popular again this week, with the other listings scattered throughout the borough. Each home was priced over the million dollar mark — the cheapest was a frame house in PLG asking $1.235 million, and the priciest was a $3.8 million limestone in Prospect Heights.

Which would you choose?

10. This home sits on Lafayette Avenue between Throop and Marcus Garvey Boulevard. The listing for this one calls it “an opportunity to design your own home all while still living in the house and collecting income” — combine that with the scant photos and the reference to “great bones” and it seems to suggest that parts of the house need work. There are reputed to be “original details throughout,” and the images are nice enough.

802 Lafayette Avenue
Price: $1.35 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Marlene Burns)
Four Charmers With Original Details to See This Weekend, Starting at $518K
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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. It’s set up as a two-family, with a five-bedroom triplex below — with bedrooms split between the garden and second floors — and a two-bedroom rental on top.

372 Sterling Place
Price: $3.8 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Suzanne Forrester
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8. This large two-bedroom duplex co-op sits in a landmarked 1860s Fort Greene townhouse, one of a row that was converted to the Lafayette Court Apartments in 1934. There are 21 units in total; this one is at 147 Lafayette Avenue, the smallest of the buildings, and occupies the top two floors.

147 Lafayette Avenue, #B
Price: $1.295 million
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Corcoran (Marie Bromberg)
Duplex in Landmarked Fort Greene Row House With Skylights, Deck Asks $1.295 Million
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7. This one’s a semi-detached brownstone in Bed Stuy designed by well-known Victorian architect Amzi Hill. It dates back to 1885, and retains some original details, including ceiling medallions, stone mantels, pocket shutters, banisters, newel post and a hallway pier mirror.

579 Monroe Street
Price: $1.675 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Morgan Munsey, Joseph Martinez)
Four Houses in Move-in Condition to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.325 Million
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6. This a newly renovated brownstone on Decatur Street in Bed Stuy, around the corner from the Kingston-Throop subway station. It’s been completely overhauled, but has some original details, including mantels, inlaid parquet floors and plaster crown moldings. There’s a one-bedroom rental with a small office space on the garden level, above is a triplex with a full-floor master suite and two additional bedrooms.

116 Decatur Street
Price: $1.995 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Marta Maletz, Sivan Sterer)
Four Charmers With Original Details to See This Weekend, Starting at $518K
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5. On Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, we’ve got a flip — a three-story townhouse that’s newly gut renovated. It’s done up in a thoroughly modern style, with recessed lighting, flat-fronted gas fireplaces, pickled white-oak flooring, marble bathrooms and glossy white cabinetry in the kitchens. There’s an owner’s upper duplex with three bedrooms and a rental on the garden level with two small bedrooms; there’s also a finished rec room in the basement, which can be accessed from the duplex.

779 Lincoln Place
Price: $2.295 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: BH Tal Real Estate (Chaya Zarchi)
Four Houses in Move-in Condition to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.325 Million
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4. There’s a narrow brownstone on Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill that’s split into double duplexes with separate mechanicals. The photographic evidence is limited, but what’s there looks to be in fine shape, perhaps newly renovated though it’s not clear. There are five original marble fireplaces; the listing also cites “extra-wide plank floors” but they don’t appear to be original. The lower duplex has a garden paved with bluestone.

186 Washington Avenue
Price: $2.6 million
Area: Clinton Hill
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Nadine Adamson, Kelsey Hall)
Four Houses in Move-in Condition to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.325 Million
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3. This sprawling circa 1901 home is newly and fully renovated, with new kitchen and baths alongside a bit of original detail. A three-story with a front porch and a garage, it’s on a fine, quiet block in the Ditmas Park Historic District, at 497 East 17th Street.

497 E 17th Street
Price: $2.675 million
Area: Ditmas Park (Marilyn Wexler)
Broker: Douglas Elliman
Sleekly Updated Ditmas Park Standalone With Original Details, Garage Asks $2.675 Million
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2. On Argyle Road in Prospect Park South, there awaits a 1907 Neo-Colonial style freestanding home of generous proportions. Thirty-eight feet wide, it’s got a sprawling first floor with a large foyer, a vast living room, a dining room, a breakfast nook, a sun room, a kitchen, a half bath and two working fireplaces with marble surrounds.

162 Argyle Road
Price: $2.25 million
Area: Prospect Park South
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Carolyn Cedar)
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1. Sold three times in the last three years, this Prospect Lefferts Gardens house is an interesting one, at least when viewed from the outside. It’s a detached single-family frame house wedged in between a pair of brick buildings on Midwood Street.

288 Midwood Street
Price: $1.235 million
Area: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Broker: Fillmore (Bryan Ecock)
Four Houses in Move-in Condition to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.325 Million
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