939 St. Johns Place Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Real Street Inc. |
The suspense is over: Brooklyn, part two! In this week’s installment of my neighborhood-by-neighborhood tour through the city, we’re looking at central to eastish Brooklyn. Targets include Flatbush, which had the most promising and surprising inventory of the week; Ditmas Park; Clinton Hill; Bed-Stuy; and Crown Heights. Oh, and I did something I never do and stopped off in Bushwick! (I generally try to avoid it like the plague.) Keep reading for a would-you-rather thought experiment on New York versus Chicago.
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$6,950, 6-bedroom: I’ve listed this before but am listing again because I love this mansion and it’s $550 less than it was a week ago. |
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291 Westminster Road Photo: The Agency Brooklyn Park Slope |
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$1,949, 1-bedroom: Parquet floors, beautiful natural light, and so cheap!
$2,795, 2-bedroom: Really nicely maintained prewar apartment with all the curved passageways and ceramic-tile bathroom fixings. |
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| 2616 Beverley Road Photo: Zjama Realty Corp |
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$3,000, 2-bedroom: A can’t-miss this week in Flatbush — just look at that built-in!
$3,400, 3-bedroom: The listing describes this place as Italianate with “excessive natural light” — and who am I to argue with that?
$3,750, 3-bedroom: Floor-through (and maybe more — hard to discern because the description and floor plan have contradictory info). Even though the reno was heavy-handed, there are a lot of nice features here: solar-panel roof, verdant view, proximity to the park.
$4,200, 4-bedroom: A lot going on in this top-floor duplex — feels like a lighting showroom. But the colors … thank God for white paint. |
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448 East 28th Street Photo: Arche Nest LLC |
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$3,600, 2-bedroom: Definitely not my favorite listing ever (see the exposed brick and ugly kitchen reno), but there’s a claw-foot tub! And you’re right by the subway.
$6,395, 4-bedroom: You know I’m going for the large-format black-and-white tiling in the kitchen, obviously. Otherwise, spacious garden and parlor-floor duplex with lots of good light (which is not a given on those garden floors). |
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| 166 Halsey Street Photo: StreetEasy |
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$8,500, 2-bedroom: A man named Andrew used to live in this idiosyncratic loftlike duplex with his family. Now he’s moving to Connecticut, and he wants someone to move in and love this place as much as he did. Maybe he’ll even sell you his piano. |
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$3,700, 1-bedroom: If you’re going to overspend on a one-bedroom, I’d put this prewar beaut in the running. $4,750, 2-bedroom: Brownstone floor-through that’s been nicely renovated. The kitchen is lovely and oblong, the bathroom is beautiful, and the windows are original. |
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584 Washington Avenue Photo: Compass |
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$4,800, 2-bedroom: Honestly cannot believe they’re getting away with this price for a dungeon apartment, but it’s a nice dungeon apartment with access to a magical garden at least.
$4,950, 2-bedroom: Extremely renovated two-bedroom in an elevator building. They did a nice job with the floors. |
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415 Washington Avenue Photo: Akelius Real Estate Management |
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$10,000, 4-bedroom: Just a fun, mahogany-rich mansion that also provides a worthwhile lesson in the art of lighting. The first half of the photos are moody and slightly obscure, while the second half are all overhead fluorescence. It’s like they got lazy in the middle of staging and gave up, which … I get! |
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