Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights Studio With 'Dining Gallery,' Vintage Bath Asks $2,595

A studio on the first floor of a 1939 building comes with updated wet rooms, original details, and decent storage.

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by Cate Corcoran

07/25/2024 1

A World War II-era Prospect Heights studio offers some fun surprises in the form of graphic tile as well as a sunken living room and nicely preserved parquet floors. It’s on the first floor of 55 Eastern Parkway, a six-story, 47-unit red brick elevator building with Colonial Revival touches.

Developed by Leon A. and Murray Kellner on the “last vacant plot on lower Eastern Parkway,” according to a newspaper account at the time, the apartments opened in 1939, advertising “dropped living rooms” and “dining galleries.”

Both can be seen in this unit, which opens to a central foyer that also serves as a dining area and, with the unit’s three closets, storage space. It is open to the sunken living room, which has a high coved ceiling, one window, and space for sleeping and lounging. (Virtually staged photos show the rooms furnished.)

The kitchen has been updated with flat-front wood cupboards, dark stone counters, colorful floor tile with a circular motif, and dishwasher. In the bathroom is vintage mango and black wall tile, matching tub, dark gray hex floor tile, and a new pedestal sink.

The building has shared laundry, bike storage, live-in super, part-time doorman, and a garden, according to the listing. Subletting (with board approval) is allowed after one year.

Listed by Sophia Angelakis of Compass, the unit is available for $2,595 a month. It is also for sale, with $699 monthly maintenance, asking $400,000. What do you think?

[Listing: 55 Eastern Parkway #1D | Broker: Compass] GMAP