Classic Crown Heights Beauty Has Tons of Original Detail, Was Never Divided
This classic Crown Heights Queen Anne brownstone, at 1070 Bergen Street, has loads of detail and a lot of square footage. It looks to be in pretty good shape, with its details intact — though it’s described as being in “estate condition,” so some work is definitely in store. Among its features is a center…
This classic Crown Heights Queen Anne brownstone, at 1070 Bergen Street, has loads of detail and a lot of square footage. It looks to be in pretty good shape, with its details intact — though it’s described as being in “estate condition,” so some work is definitely in store.
Among its features is a center staircase — above you can see the parlor-floor center hallway with the fabulous diamond pattern in the floor, working fireplace, and other choice woodwork.
Elsewhere there are carved wood mantels with period tile, stained glass, inlaid floors (note the beauty in one of the bedrooms pictured below), moldings, plasterwork and pocket shutters. The passthrough sinks appear to be intact, going by the floor plan.
At four stories and 3,758 square feet, the house is set up as a single family, with the kitchen on the garden level, along with a dining room and a walk-in pantry. It looks like the layout is original.
There are front and rear parlors on the parlor level, divided by the aforementioned foyer. The rear parlor contains a stained glass window above a fireplace. The top two floors each hold a pair of large bedrooms and a lot of closet space.
If you don’t favor the original single-family setup or need 3,758 square feet to play with, it should be easy enough to do a rental on the bottom floor and take a top triplex.
The backyard is extra deep, and clearly a new fence is in order along with some landscaping. No doubt mechanicals need an upgrade, the bathrooms and kitchen will need redoing, and who knows what other issues there might be. But someone can make a stunning home out of this one.
Compass brokers mTkalla Keaton and Shonnette Yearwood have the listing; the price is $1,775,000. What do you think of the place?
[Listing: 1070 Bergen Street | Broker: Compass | Photos: Compass] GMAP
 
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Looked at this house back in the spring. Agree with everybody else on this thread, lovely details, very spacious, but it’s in rough shape and needs a lot of work. Between all the updates, gutting the garden level, redoing the facade and roof, my estimate of the work to be done was closer to $500k and not being to live in it for a year +. This corner also still feels a little sketchy.
We ended up buying a similar property in the neighborhood, and the price for this house always felt a little aspirational. At 1.5M it would probably would have been in contention…
I saw this house this spring and agree it has great bones. The challenge is that the photos are only of two floors. It was used as a boarding house / shelter and the kitchen is non-existent… just a oil-burned area where a cauldron once was (dating literally 70+ years) and some bashed cabinets with microwaves. The level of filth throughout that area will take a gut on that floor. Same goes for bathrooms and upper floors. It’ll likely need to be a mostly (or all) cash transaction as well, with recent purchases that low banks are balking at mortgage appraisals much higher (trust me I have seen a few fall through for the same reason this summer). Too bad….
This house is beautiful, but there’s something weird about this listing. An LLC bought it at the tail end of 2014 for $800k and then immediately listed it for $1.85mil. They’re now relisting it at this lower price, but in the meantime (october) the LLC sold it to another LLC for $990k. But both companies are operated by the same guy, so he basically just sold it to himself (his signature is on both parts of the deed). That 2014 $800k price is what someone could have bought it for, and then fixed it up to live in. Oh well, greedy middle men have now gotten in the way.
That is absolutely stunning. Not sure why they think it will sell for the price now, though, as we’re going into cold weather and the holidays, when it didn’t sell for the same exact price in the spring.
I love pretty much everything about this house. And all the details are intact including the floors- which is a major savings. The major costs would be electrical, plumbing and adding a kitchen on the parlor level- if you wanted an owners triplex. I think you could have an amazing property with a 250K budget.
real estate is a cycle, we’re in the beginning of down slide.