Open House Picks: From Modest to Mansion

There’s a wide spread of price points among today’s picks, with the most expensive one, at $4,150,000, running nearly 10 times the cost of the least expensive, at $459,000.

What do you get for $459,000 in today’s Brooklyn, you may ask? In this case it’d be a one-story 1940s attached brick home with a finished basement on East 40th Street in East Flatbush.

Or you could call it a two-story if you count a finished basement as a story — there’s actually a full apartment down there, though the place is legally a one-family. The ground-level floor has two bedrooms and a living room with a vaulted ceiling and exposed wood beams.

On the pricey end, the $4,150,000 home in question is a classic four-story brownstone on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, currently set up as a triplex over a garden rental. Narrow at about 16 feet wide, it’s about 3,000 square feet in total, with period details including moldings, wainscoting and pocket shutters.

Moving over to Bedford Stuvesant, we’ve got homes for $1,700,000, on Halsey Street, and $1,499,000, on Marion Street.

The four-story, three-unit house on Halsey Street has one of the more distinctive facades we’ve seen lately, made of corrugated steel worked into several angles. It’s more prosaic on the inside, where you’ll find an owner’s duplex on the bottom with one-bedroom apartments on the second and third floors. It’s all newly renovated, with all new mechanicals.

Last up, on Marion Street is a three-story whose facade is also a bit different — it’s charcoal grey with what appears to be some kind of texture to it. This is another fully redone house, as Bed Stuy houses so often seem to be these days, with three units.

There’s a one-bedroom on the ground floor that’s duplexed with a finished basement, while the second- and third-floor units each hold three diminutive bedrooms.

163 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights
Price: $4,150,000
Broker: Corcoran
Sunday 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Photo by Corcoran

253 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant
Price: $1,700,000
Broker: Halstead Properties
Sunday 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Photo by Halstead Properties

280 Marion Street in Bedford Stuyvesant
Price: $1,499,000
Broker: Compass
Sunday 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Photo by Compass

463 East 40th Street in East Flatbush
Price: $459,000
Broker: Corcoran
Sunday 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Photo by Corcoran