Strictly Modern or With Ornate Mantels: Four Open Houses to See This Weekend

Our picks this week offer a range in both style and condition. They include a newly revamped Bed Stuy flip, a classic Stuy Heights brownstone, a brick Carroll Gardens three-story that needs some attention and a fully detached Windsor Terrace house that defies easy description.

Starting out in Bed Stuy, we’ve got a four-story flip at 521 Greene Avenue. It’s quite a nice one, renovated top to bottom in a thoroughly modern style, with open-plan living spaces and steel-railed staircases. It offers a two-bedroom triplex (which includes a finished basement) with a three-bedroom duplex above.

At 330 MacDonough Street we find a distinctly different animal — a brownstone in the classic Stuyvesant Heights fashion. That means some prime details, including mantels, wainscoting, woodwork, inlaid floors, ceiling medallions and plaster detailing. This one’s got a two-bedroom owner’s duplex below (three bedrooms if you want to utilize a windowless “office”; only one bathroom though), with a pair of one-and-a-half-bedroom floor-through rentals on the upper two floors.

At 50 2nd Street in Carroll Gardens is an Italianate brick number, with one of the front gardens that gave the ‘hood its name. It’s got some original details — a marble fireplace, moldings, tin ceilings — but also some unfortunate alterations. The buyer’s going to have some work to do, which could include some refiguring. Right now it’s got a rental up top and a one-bedroom garden-parlor duplex.

Last up, at 129 Vanderbilt Street is a fully detached house, 22 feet wide. A three-story with a unit on each floor, this one is a little tough to get a handle on. It a sprawling space that looks to be a bit of a jumble, with some columns and some archways, some areas that need upgrading, a bona fide backyard, and what looks to be a fair amount of square footage. (The lot itself is 3,200 square feet.) Could be an interesting one to eyeball, and it’s on a nice quiet block.

521 Greene Avenue
Price: $2.325 million
Area: Bedford Stuyvesant
Broker: Corcoran (Kyle Talbott, Karen Talbott)
Sunday 1:30-3 p.m.
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330 MacDonough Street
Price: $2.2 million
Area: Bedford Stuyvesant
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Jevon Gratineau, Howard Ramial)
Sunday 12-1:30 p.m.
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50 2nd Street
Price: $2.75 million
Area: Carroll Gardens
Broker: Corcoran (Larisa Kogut)
Saturday 1-2:30 p.m. and Sunday 1-3 p.m.
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129 Vanderbilt Street
Price: $1.999 million
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Parkview (Felix Burgos Jr.)
Sunday 12-1:30 p.m.
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