Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: From High-Tech Amenities to 19th Century Details

This week our most popular listings included homes with unusual interior features, ranging from virtual doormen to an elevator. One home even has a built-in home automation system you can control from an iPad. The top pick of the week was a 19th century Park Slope Romanesque Revival brick townhouse with a listing intriguingly short on details.

Almost all of the favorites were houses, with just one co-op and one condo in the mix. Prices ranged from $525,000 for a 20th century house in Brownsville to nearly $7 million for an Italianate in Boerum Hill.

Which would you choose?

10. This three-bedroom unit is part of a new townhouse-style condo development in East Flatbush, at 452-458 East 29th Street. There will be 16 units all told; this is one of eight that hit the market earlier this month.

454 E. 29th Street
Price: $815,000
Area: East Flatbush
Broker: MNS (Uriel Gandelman)
East Flatbush Duplex Condo With Three Bedrooms, Private Deck Asks $815K
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9. This Park Slope classic six co-op has high ceilings, great light, generous spaces and an elegant prewar feel. It’s on the second floor at 305 8th Avenue, at the corner of 3rd Street, a block from Prospect Park.

305 8th Avenue
Price: $1.65 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Chris Sheller, Juliette Garcia)
Center Slope Classic Six With Corner Exposures, Renovated Kitchen Asks $1.65 Million
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8. Next stop is Brownsville, where we find a brick house on Willmohr Street near the East Flatbush border. This one’s an estate sale, and it needs some work. At 20 feet wide and three stories high, it might offer some space to play with. It’s got parquet floors, a front driveway and a paved backyard. Despite the presence of two kitchens, it is a legal one-family, according to the listing and the certificate of occupancy.

995 Wilmohr Street
Price: $525,000
Area: Brownsville
Broker: Redfin (Jonathan Makolondra)
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7. In Sunset Park on 51st Street, there is a semi-detached three-story brownstone, which the listing describes as “a masterpiece.” Twenty feet wide, the house has an upper duplex, with three bedrooms and three full baths, and a garden rental, which is duplexed with a finished basement. The owner’s duplex has an open plan first floor, with recessed lighting, exposed brick accents, mod light fixtures, a kitchen with an island and copious white cabinetry, and a paneled-glass rear wall leading out to a steel-railed deck.

413 51st Street
Price: $1.695 million
Area: Sunset Park
Broker: Bedford Brownstone Realty
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6. On Bridge Street in Vinegar Hill is a swank four-story townhouse with a roof deck and elevator. It’s got a double-height living room with a wall of windows fronting the street, a sleek kitchen with custom cabinetry and high-end appliances, a full floor master suite with another wall of windows, and two additional bedrooms. It adjoins the Kirkman Lofts condos, and offers luxury-condo amenities to go along with the luxury-condo feel of the place: fitness center, bike room, virtual doorman, etc. There’s also a home automation system that controls lighting, HVAC, and a built-in sound system using an iPad.

41 Bridge Street
Price: $4.495 million
Area: Vinegar Hill
Broker: Vandenberg Real Estate (Dexter Guerrieri)
Four Open Houses to See This Chilly Weekend, Starting at $525K
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5. Here’s a gut renovated 1870s Bed Stuy brownstone that’s not a flip — or doesn’t appear to be at least. If it is, the house — at 231 MacDonough Street, in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District — is a good bit more attractive and thoughtfully done than average.

231 Macdonough Street
Price: $2.35 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead Property (Ban Leow, Howard Ramlal)
Renovated Bed Stuy Brownstone With Glass Wall, Other Modern Updates Asks $2.35 Million
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4. In Bed Stuy on Macon Street, we find a brownstone dating to 1890, according to the listing. Recently renovated by the long-time owner, going by public record, this one’s got some original detail on the parlor floor, including pocket doors, moldings, window casings and a mirrored mantel. It’s got a four-bedroom, three-bath triplex over a two-bedroom garden rental and a finished cellar.

639 Macon Street
Price: $2.49 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead Property (Morgan Munsey, Donna Myrie)
Four Open Houses to See This Chilly Weekend, Starting at $525K
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3. In Crown Heights on Bergen Street stands a four-story circa 1898 townhouse that’s newly renovated within; by a flipper, it appears. The Renaissance Revival house is within the Crown Heights North Historic District. There’s an upper triplex with four bedrooms, a kitchen with stone countertops and a center island, and a steel deck with stairs leading to a wood-fenced yard. There are high ceilings and a few details, including four mantels and tin ceilings. One would presume there’s a rental on the bottom floor, but there’s no floor plan and the listing makes no mention of one, so we couldn’t say for certain.

1258 Bergen Street
Price: $2.499 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Massada Home Sales (Sam Harris)
Four Open Houses to See This Chilly Weekend, Starting at $525K
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2. Light floods into this circa-1870s Italianate house at 92 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, thanks to a rear wall of glass, an oversize skylight over the stair, and a double height family room. The brick and brownstone facade and exterior ironwork have been restored, as have the home’s interior historic details. These include floor-to-ceiling parlor windows, original Italianate marble mantels, and an arch and corbels with foliate plaster details on the parlor floor.

92 Bergen Street
Price: $6.995 million
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Alexander Maroni, Gregory Williamson)
Elegant Townhouse in Boerum Hill With Glass Rear Wall, Original Details Asks $6.995 Million
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1. Here’s a Romanesque Revival brick townhouse on a 26-foot lot with a garage and a driveway — a common enough commodity in the borough’s outer reaches but a rare find in Park Slope a stone’s throw from Prospect Park. Located at 441 14th Street in the Park Slope Historic District, the house seems to need considerable work, though the listing is short on details.

441 14th Street
Price: $2.795 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Olshan Realty (Cynthia Crowley)
Landmarked Park Slope Townhouse With Garage, Mantels, Ornate Moldings, Asks $2.795 Million
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