Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A Mews House and a Béton Coignet Cast Stone Manse
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Park Slope co-op with a design mag-worthy reno and a lavish brownstone in Bed Stuy.
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a mews house in Bay Ridge, a Park Slope co-op with a design mag-worthy reno and a lavish brownstone in Bed Stuy.
While there are several popular listings in Bed Stuy, the rest are scattered throughout the borough. The least expensive home of the group is a freestanding brick house in Marine Park for $789,000, and the most expensive was a Clinton Hill house built of Béton Coignet cast stone asking $3.5 million.
Which would you choose?
10. First up is a Clinton Hill house with a good deal of detail inside and out — and some interesting history. Located on Clinton Avenue at the neighborhood’s southern edge, it’s one of a group of three with a mansard roof, bay window, and carved detail out front. The house is Neo-Grec with some Second Empire touches and dates to 1872. While it looks like limestone, it is actually Béton Coignet cast stone — concrete.
538 Clinton Avenue
Price: $3.5 million
Area: Clinton Hill
Broker: AP Realty Group ( Angela Peterkin, Chamaine Johnson)
Clinton Hill Béton Coignet Cast Stone Townhouse With Bay Windows, Fireplaces Asks $3.5 Million
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9. This listing is a head-turner for more reasons than one. The house itself is a stunner — a painstakingly restored 1895 Renaissance Revival Bed Stuy brownstone loaded with original details and exquisite Victorian-style updating. And the sale will come as a shock to many — at 538 Decatur Street, it’s the home of a couple known to many Brownstoner readers and Bed Stuy residents who are restoring or renovating houses.
538 Decatur Street
Price: $1.925 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Judith Lief)
A Preservationist’s Bed Stuy Dream Brownstone With AGA Range, Details Galore Asks $1.695 Million
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8. In Park Slope is a two-bedroom co-op that’s gotten a swank, elegant overhaul by the design firm BHDM and stories in Architectural Digest and Lonny. It’s on the third floor of a self-managed, eight-unit brick building on Union Street, just off 5th Avenue. Masterminded by Dan Mazzarini, the former director of store design for Ralph Lauren, the revamp has a dramatic color scheme that’s heavy on black and white, and favors dark colors in the kitchen and bedrooms.
749 Union Street #3L
Price: $995,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Bridget Applegate, Charlie Pigott)
Design Mag-Worthy Park Slope Co-op With Wood-Burning Fireplace Asks $995K
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7. In Bed Stuy is a brownstone that’s newly and nicely gut renovated, with some original details and a classic feel. It’s on the neighborhood’s northern end, on Willoughby Avenue, between Tompkins and Throop. There’s no floor plan, but the listing tells us we’re looking at a two-family with an upper three-bedroom, two-bath duplex and a two-bedroom rental on the garden level.
635 Willoughby Avenue
Price: $2.199 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Andy Jasmin)
Renovated Bed Stuy Brownstone With Details, Marble, Central Air Asks $2.199 Million
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6. Tucked into a private mews in Bay Ridge is a detached early 20th century brick house. It has an interior garage, which shares the English basement with a laundry room, a half-bath and a paneled rec room. In the house proper there are three bedrooms (with river views from the master), a living room with a fireplace, a dining room and a small kitchen.
12 Colonial Gardens
Price: $1.385 million
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Halstead (Peter Grazioli)
Four Houses With Mucho Details to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.385 Million
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5. This listing actually includes two beautifully maintained, historic properties — one was built in 1840 for an employee of a long-ago estate here, and the other probably not long after — sit on one lot, right across the street from Prospect Park. And that presents the future owner with both an opportunity for spacious and deluxe living accommodations, and with three additional apartments ready on day one to generate income.
50 Prospect Park Southwest
Price: $3 million
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Douglas Elliman (John Mazurek, Cynthia Barrera)
Dream Windsor Terrace Property With Two Historic Townhouses Overlooking Park Asks $3 Million
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4. Here’s a freestanding one-family brick house on Hendrickson Street in Marine Park. This one needs work, according to the listing, which says that both “imagination and tender loving care” are called for. The only interior photos are of the living and dining rooms, which look presentable enough, with original parquet floors. It’s a narrow two-story house with three bedroom and a small balcony upstairs and a full bath in the basement.
1735 Hendrickson Street
Price: $789,000
Area: Marine Park
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Vera “Cappi” Capozucca)
From Needing Work to Move-In Ready, Four Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $789K
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3. This three-story two-family in Bed Stuy has been renovated but not newly renovated, has some original detail, and is quite nice. It has a rental on the bottom and a duplex above, with one and a half baths and three bedrooms, one of which lacks a window but has a skylight. There’s a small deck off the kitchen with steps down to the garden, and there are inlaid floors, moldings, unpainted carved woodwork, pocket doors and five decorative fireplaces.
634 Monroe Street
Price: $1.5 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Nick Ferrone, Andrew Gordon)
From Needing Work to Move-In Ready, Four Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $789K
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2. This appealing limestone with an angled front on 11th Street in Park Slope was built circa 1897, according to the listing. On a park block, it’s a three-story with a lower duplex and an upper rental. The duplex has got the living space on the garden level and bedrooms — which total three, plus an office — on the parlor floor. It’s move-in ready for anyone who favors that configuration, and has some nice original details, including wainscoting, several sets of pocket doors and mantels.
584 11th Street
Price: $2.75 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Compass (Libby Ryan, Maria Ryan)
From Needing Work to Move-In Ready, Four Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $789K
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1. Finally is a four-story brownstone on Putnam Avenue. It needs work, and probably quite a bit of it; and it presents another potential challenge as well: it’s an SRO. It’s got some elaborate original detail, though, including etched and stained glass, an ornate pier mirror, mantels, moldings, wainscoting, pocket doors and inlaid parquet floors.
659 Putnam Avenue
Price: $1.275 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Eddie Ugrinsky)
From Needing Work to Move-In Ready, Four Houses to See This Weekend, Starting at $789K
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