Top 10 Real Estate Listings: Would You Rather Live in Brooklyn or Jackson Heights?

This week’s top listings are split between a wide variety of homes in Brooklyn — from $2,500-a-month rentals to a grand mansion — and elegant prewar co-ops in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Which would you choose?

10. Last week’s No. 1 listings hangs on at the bottom of this week’s list. On Oakland Place in Flatbush, it’s an aluminum-sided, semi-detached two-story. It’s a one-family residence, with three bedrooms on the top floor. This one’s got parquet floors and original moldings and plaster details, but needs some work, including a kitchen upgrade. (Whether you keep the wild pink color scheme in the living room is up to you.) There’s a shared carport.

3 Oakland Place
Price: $529,000
Area: Flatbush
Broker: Halstead (Hakim Edwards)
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9. In Park Slope we have a first-floor two-bedroom rental with hardwood floors, a dishwasher and granite countertops. The unit appears to be fairly spacious, with a separate kitchen, and there are plenty of windows throughout.

261 14th Street
Price: $2,500/month
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Brooklyn Heights Real Estate (Pepi Sorvali)
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8. This two-bed, one-bath in the Norman-styled Chateau — another one of the area’s most desirable buildings — features a gracious entry, large dining and living area with a wood-burning fireplace, and an extra-large kitchen with a rare in-unit washer/dryer instead of a second bath. There are also inlaid parquet floors and built-ins. The unit is on the first floor of an elevator building, with a maintenance of $798 a month.

34-37 80th Street #1
Price: $699,000
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Jon Fisher)
Area: Jackson Heights, Queens
Prewar Apartments in Jackson Heights
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7. Brooklyn homes don’t come any grander than this one. If Louis XIV was looking for a property in Brooklyn right now he’d no doubt zero in on this place, one of the most distinguished houses on one of the borough’s most distinguished blocks, at 1305 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South. It sped to contract within eight days of being listed.

1305 Albemarle Road
Price: $2.988 million
Area: Prospect Park South
Broker: Nest Seekers (Ryan Serhant, Rachel Simons)
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6. This Bed Stuy two-bedroom rental is located in a barrel-front limestone townhouse on Jefferson Avenue. A stunning unit with plenty of original detail — including mahogany inlaid hardwood floors, molding, wainscoting, built-in storage and stained glass — the apartment is recently renovated, with in-unit washer/dryer and a lovely galley kitchen with quartz counters. The unit has a single bath covered in a charming turquoise glass subway tile.

208 Jefferson Avenue #3
Price: $2,450/month
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Lisa James, Anthony Morris)
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5. This updated three-bedroom, one-bath in Linden Court in Jackson Heights, Queens, has a sunroom, new Landmarks-approved Pella windows and an attractive Arts and Crafts style kitchen. There are French doors throughout the apartment, and a pretty mural of a tree in the hall. The maintenance on this second-floor walkup is $1,120.

37-34 85th Street #21
Price: $695,000
Area: Jackson Heights, Queens
Broker: Mont Sky Real Estate (Chris Zhou)
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4. This updated two-bedroom, one bath in Jackson Heights’ 1916 Colonial Apartments has a courtyard rather than a garden, and is consequently more affordable. It has original archways and inlaid floors as well as an updated kitchen with an in-unit washer/dryer. The maintenance on the fourth-floor walkup is $777.

34-39 82nd Street #42
Price: $449,000
Area: Jackson Heights, Queens
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Helen Van Rhyn)
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3. This three-bedroom, two-bath apartment with a wood-burning fireplace is located in the Towers, Jackson Heights’ most extravagant building. With generously sized rooms and multiple exposures, each apartment feels almost like a standalone house. This particular unit has been modernized with a contemporary tile mantel and sleek white kitchen with dark granite counters and pale wood floor. It’s on the second floor of an elevator building. The maintenance is $1,093 and there is an additional $156.52 monthly assessment for the rest of the year.

33-27 80th Street #2
Price: $949,000
Area: Jackson Heights, Queens
Broker: Owner
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2. Another in the Towers in Jackson Heights, this is one of the largest apartments in Jackson Heights, with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. This particular unit has a wood-burning fireplace and most of its original details in place. It features a classic but updated kitchen with original butler’s pantry and upper cabinets as well as new lower cabinets, stone counters and white subway tile. It’s on the second floor and the monthly maintenance is $1,588.

33-39 80th Street #22
Price: $1.15 million
Area: Jackson Heights
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Jon Fisher)
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1. Our No. 1 listing of the week is a one-bedroom co-op that’s handsomely appointed and fairly spacious, with a loft level that adds a significant amount of square footage. It’s on the first floor of a 24-unit complex at 295 St. Marks Avenue in Prospect Heights. The unit has its own separate street entrance with a small entry foyer, which opens via French doors into a double-height living room. A sliding ladder leads up to the low-ceilinged loft space, which runs the length of the unit.

295 St. Marks Avenue #1A
Price: $630,000
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Halstead (Sarah Chamberlin, Kirsten Syrett)
Co-op of the Day
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