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Jazz Age Sunset Park Walkup With French Doors, Parquet, Vintage Flavor Asks $579K

With a flexible floor plan, this efficient apartment in an early Finnish co-op in Sunset Park has the compelling details of its era plus a recently updated kitchen with retro flair.

by Cate Corcoran

09/27/2022 0

With a flexible floor plan, this efficient apartment in an early Finnish co-op in Sunset Park has the compelling details of its era plus a recently updated kitchen with retro flair.

It’s located on the second floor of 856 43rd Street, a streamlined tan brick walkup near the neighborhood’s eponymous park. The u-shaped building has 36 units and four stories.

Completed in 1922, it was built by the Advance Home Association at a cost of $150,000, according to a contemporary account in the Brooklyn Standard Union. It was part of a wave of similar co-ops going up in the area, developed by their occupants to “escape from the oppressive demands of landlords” and pay half what they would in rent, as the paper put it.

The four-room apartment includes a flex room with low wainscoting and French doors that can work as a dining room or second bedroom. Some of the unit’s original details include parquet floors, picture rails and coved ceilings. The plaster walls have been freshly skim-coated, according to the listing.

The recently renovated kitchen has a vintage feel with white cabinets, wood counters, white mosaic tile backsplash, wood floors and a mint-green ’50s-style Big Chill fridge. There is space for a table, and the kitchen also has a dishwasher and washing machine.

The bathroom’s deep and rounded corner tub and creamy hex tile floor have been updated with white subway tile on the walls and a pedestal sink.

The unit has three closets as well as additional storage elsewhere in the building. There is also shared laundry in the basement, and the self-managed co-op has a live-in super. The monthly maintenance for this unit is $1,002.

Listed by Peter Bracichowicz of Corcoran, it’s asking $579,000. Worth it?

[Listing: 856 43rd Street #7 | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP