Real Estate

Four Open Houses With Old-Fashioned Charm to See This Weekend

Our open houses this last weekend before the start of the holidays offer plenty of interesting detail and a variety of conditions. They span the neighborhoods Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. On Bergen Street in Boerum Hill we’ve got a big one — four stories and 25 feet wide. With no stoop and a single…

by Chris Erikson

11/20/2015 3 minute 0

On Bergen Street in Boerum Hill we’ve got a big one — four stories and 25 feet wide. With no stoop and a single entrance it’s set up with four units, one on each floor, so any owner-occupant has some refiguring to do.

Heading south to Clinton Street in Carroll Gardens, up next is a three-story one-family with nice potential. Details include marble mantels, inlaid floors, tin ceilings and wall moldings, but it needs at least some cosmetic upgrading, nowhere more than on the facade, which is decked out in Permastone.

On Macdonough Street in Bed Stuy, pictured above, is a brownstone with an owner’s triplex — which appears to include a finished basement — and a pair of rentals sharing the top floor. It looks to be in good condition, and there are some nice details on this one, including mantels and carved woodwork in the entryway.

Last, on Park Place in Crown Heights is a three-level home with the basement at the garden level and two floors above, each comprising a separate unit. Recently renovated, with at least one new kitchen and bathroom (i.e. those pictured), it retains some original detail — though not the original floors, sadly.