Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Hilton Opens First Hotel in Brooklyn

Center Slope Classic Six With Corner Exposures, Renovated Kitchen Asks $1.65 Million

This Park Slope classic six co-op has high ceilings, great light, generous spaces and an elegant prewar feel. It’s on the second floor at 305 8th Avenue, at the corner of 3rd Street, a block from Prospect Park. The living room and dining room are large and grand, with original moldings, parquet floors and big windows overlooking 8th Avenue. There’s a good sized foyer and a trio of hall closets up front.

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Now There’s a Hilton Open on Smith in Boerum Hill, in Flank’s “Brownstone-Inspired” Condo Building

Located at 140 Schermerhorn Street, The Hilton Brooklyn New York is the first Hilton in Brooklyn, which may come as something of a surprise to locals. It’s one of the few major hotel chains to open in this nook of the borough — close to prime brownstone Brooklyn, Downtown Brooklyn, and shopping on Atlantic Avenue — even though Brooklyn has been going through a hotel boom in recent years.

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Four Modest Houses To See This Weekend, Starting at $549K

As December hits and the temperature drops, the housing market generally cools along with it, and this year is no exception. But if open-house activity is not hitting a fever pitch neither has it ground to a halt, and as is our habit we’ve got four to be checked out this weekend — found in Gowanus, Bed Stuy, Cypress Hills and Brownsville.
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Landmarked Cobble Hill Carriage House, Former Zebra Crash Pad Asks $5.6 Million

Here’s a landmarked 19th century carriage house in a prime Cobble Hill location, at 173 Pacific Street between Court and Clinton. Set back from the street, the former stable has a Romanesque Revival facade, a stone-paved front driveway, two stories and a finished cellar.

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Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Pete Hamill’s Boyhood Home, 19th Century Carriage House

Among our most popular listings this week were several properties with quirky histories. A 19th century carriage house turned limousine garage in Clinton Hill got lots of looks as did a Park Slope condo where author Pete Hamill spent some of his Brooklyn childhood. The most popular listing was one that must have stirred the imagination despited the limited information, an 1870s townhouse with few available photos.

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