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Top 10 Real Estate Listings This Week: Lots to Love in Central Brooklyn

Based on this week’s top listings, everyone’s looking to central and south Brooklyn, whether to find an affordable one-bedroom or a single-family with original details. Which would you choose? 10. This single-family in Windsor Terrace sold within months for $2.3 million, just $100,000 under its asking price. The successful sale of this Arts and Crafts…

by Laura Leebove

02/14/2016 6 minute 0

Based on this week’s top listings, everyone’s looking to central and south Brooklyn, whether to find an affordable one-bedroom or a single-family with original details.

Which would you choose?

10. This single-family in Windsor Terrace sold within months for $2.3 million, just $100,000 under its asking price. The successful sale of this Arts and Crafts home is no surprise considering its fresh renovation, with a columned front porch and backyard full of plum and cherry trees on a prime block.

43 Howard Place
Price: $2.4 million
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Corcoran
Open House Pick 6 Months Later
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9. This landmarked single-family in the Crown Heights Historic District, has gotten a nice top-to-bottom renovation, with a good deal of original detail restored. Most notably that includes a lot of unpainted maple woodwork, including door and window frames, fireplaces, pocket doors, wainscoting and a large pier mirror in the living room.

904 St. Johns Place
Price: $1.895 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf, Cara Sadownick, Elizabeth Keenan-Penagos)
House of the Day
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8. Last week’s No. 3 pick, this famous Arts & Crafts home designed by architect James Sarsfield Kennedy has been on and off the market since 2009. The 5,800-square-foot structure of uncut stone sits on a verdant one-acre lot just a block from the waterfront. With its thatched roofs and endless interior architectural details, the 1916 house is certainly one of a kind.

8220 Narrows Avenue
Price: $10.999 million
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Marion Fiore)
Priciest Listings That Didn’t Sell in 2015
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7. Here we’ve got 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.

330 MacDonough Street
Price: $2.2 million
Area: Bedford Stuyvesant
Broker: Halstead (Ban Leow, Jevon Gratineau, Howard Ramial)
Open House Pick
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6. This 820-square-foot one-bedroom in Kensington has a smaller room that’d be great as a home office or nursery. The apartment has a main southern exposure, and the eat-in kitchen looks nice. The unit also comes with a parking spot.

800 Cortelyou Road #4J
Price: $475,000
Area: Kensington
Broker: Brooklyn Hearth Realty (Karen Sayles)
One-Bedrooms Under $500K
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5. Talk about location. This high-ceilinged Park Slope co-op unit is just a block’s walk from Whole Foods and across the street from Brooklyn’s famous historic Old Stone House and the J.J. Byrne Playground. The kitchen also has a dishwasher.

317 3rd Street #2A
Price: $440,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Noemi Bitterman, Larry Schier)
One-Bedrooms Under $500K
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4. Here 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.

129 Vanderbilt Street
Price: $1.999 million
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Parkview (Felix Burgos Jr.)
Open House Pick
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3. 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.

521 Greene Avenue
Price: $2.325 million
Area: Bedford Stuyvesant
Broker: Corcoran (Kyle Talbott, Karen Talbott)
Open House Pick
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2. This sweet little one-bedroom is on a great Park Slope block and just a 3-minute walk to the 2, 3 train at Grand Army Plaza. The tiny kitchen is newly renovated with Caesarstone countertops and the molding around the windows is original.

206 Lincoln Place #7
Price: $479,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Ideal Properties Group (Melissa Dehncke McGill)
One-Bedrooms Under $500K
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1. 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.