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Midwood Two-Bedroom Sponsor Unit With Deco Arches, Renovated Kitchen, Two Baths Asks $465K

In Midwood, this sponsor unit offers some Deco details along with an updated kitchen and the bonus of two full bathrooms.

by Susan De Vries

04/26/2022 0

In Midwood, this sponsor unit offers some Deco details along with an updated kitchen and the bonus of two full bathrooms. It is on the second floor of a six-story 1930s building known as the Versailles at 1717 Avenue N.

The brick building, which wraps around Avenue N to 18th Street, was designed by Kavy & Kavovitt, who were busy designing apartment buildings across Brooklyn and Queens during this era. Here, the restrained brick building has horizontal bands of brick detailing and some parapet ornament seen more clearly in the historic tax photo. The entrance has some zippy Art Deco panache with streamlined metal lettering spelling out the building name, a metal entrance door with a circular window and panels of stylized floral ornament on either side.

No floor plan is included in the listing, but the photos show a typical layout for the period and a spacious interior, with rooms accessible off of a large foyer. That foyer includes an arched niche, and most of the doorways that open to the rooms beyond sport fanciful matching shouldered arches, a style detail found in other units in the building.

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Wood floors and picture rails stretch into the living room, which has two exposures. The listing notes the apartment is a corner unit.

The renovated kitchen has a windowed dining nook with room for a table as well as a generous amount of storage in the white cabinets. There are black counters and a white subway tile backsplash. The stainless steel appliances include a dishwasher.

One of the two bedrooms has an en suite bath, also renovated and encased in white subway tile and with a step up to a walk-in shower. The other full bath was renovated with the same palette of white and gray, but has a tub.

The listing promises “closets galore” and the photos show there are at least three in or near the foyer.

The listing notes there are also “storage options” in the building along with laundry, a super and a porter. There is also an attractive Art Deco lobby with a patterned floor and a pastoral wall mural. Monthly maintenance for the unit is $1,015 a month.

Listed with Ann Marie Barker under the alternative building address of 1701 Avenue N, the apartment is priced at $465,000. If you are curious enough to see it in person, there is an open house by appointment on Saturday, April 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. What do you think?

[Listing: 1717 Avenue N #2D | Broker: Anne Marie Barker] GMAP