Real Estate

From Flip to Fixer-Upper, Four Houses to See This Weekend

This week’s open houses run the gamut of condition, style, location and price.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Bed Stuy, Sea Gate, Bushwick, Crown Heights

by Chris Erikson

08/19/2016 4 minute 0

This week’s open houses run the gamut — flips, fixer-uppers, homes of indeterminate condition; we’ve got brick, limestone, aluminum siding, detached homes and rowhouses. They’re found in Crown Heights, Bed Stuy, and Sea Gate; visit the last one and you can work in a visit to the beach.

On Prospect Place in the Crown Heights North Historic District is a landmarked four-story Renaissance Revival limestone with a large extension on the bottom floors. Weighing in at more than 6,100 square feet, the house has a five-bedroom triplex on top, and a deep garden floor that’s currently used as a dentist’s office. The triplex is dripping in original details, including parquet floors, mantels with original stone surrounds, pocket doors, crown moldings, and built-ins.

If you’re daunted by the prospect of a fixer-upper, you can run screaming from the next one, which looks like it will need the usual overhaul. On Saint Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, the brick two-family has quite a bit of original detail, but looks like it could use some skim coating, floor refinishing and updates in the kitchen and baths. Right now it’s set up as two three-bedroom apartments. It’s on a deep lot of 130 feet.

Moving over to Bushwick is a three-story brick house that looks to be a flip, renovated up and down. It’s got a rental with two narrow bedrooms on the bottom floor and a three-bedroom triplex above. The triplex has an open plan living space with herringbone floors, painted brick walls and a new kitchen with a marble-topped island and a wide fridge. In the rear there’s a garden with a new fence, decking and storage shed.

Last stop is Sea Gate, the gated community at the western end of Coney Island, where we find a 2.5-story detached house on Sea Gate Avenue. A legal two-family, it’s set up with four apartments: two one-bedrooms on the first floor, a three-bedroom on the second floor with front and rear porches, and another one-bedroom on the smaller top floor. There’s a finished basement as well. Condition is a mystery: The only photos are of the aluminum-clad exterior, and the listing offers no insights.

866 Prospect Place
Price: $2.2 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: BH Tal (Chaya Zarchi, Renee Weiss)
Sunday 2-4 p.m.
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440 Saint Marks Avenue
Price: $1.75 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Bedford Brownstone (Michael Feldman)
Sunday 12-3 p.m.
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74 Aberdeen Street
Price: $1.175 million
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Bedford Brownstone (Leslie Dixon, Michael Feldman)
Saturday 12-2 p.m., Sunday 1-2:30 p.m.
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