Real Estate

From the Heights to Marine Park: Four Diverse Houses to See This Weekend

Our open house picks this weekend are a diverse lot. They’re found, respectively, in Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Crown Heights and Marine Park.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Crown Heights and Flatlands

by Chris Erikson

09/23/2016 4 minute 0

Our open house picks this weekend are a diverse lot. There’s a wood-fronted new-construction townhouse; a grand five-story manse awaiting an overhaul; a renovated multi-family brick row house; and a semi-detached single family with a garage. They’re found, respectively, in Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Crown Heights and Marine Park.

On Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights we find a five-story townhouse that’s 21 feet wide, with harbor and skyline views. It’s got a glass-walled state-of-the-art entertaining penthouse with an adjoining media screening room and an exquisite roof garden. No, wait, actually it doesn’t have that — that’s part of the broker’s grand vision for the house, which is for “the discerning townhouse aficionado who is enchanted with the location, but also demands a solid investment.” In other words, the place needs a major overhaul. Hard to know more than that, given how little the photos show.

Next up is a newly constructed townhouse on Carroll Street off 4th Avenue, in Park Slope. Twenty feet wide, it’s got a facade paneled in ipe, with banks of windows stretching the length of the building. The modern interior offers four bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, two floors of living space, a roof deck and a finished basement — 3,732 square feet of interior space, all told.

In Crown Heights, up for viewing is a semi-detached four-story on Sterling Place, with two staircases, front and center. The renovated interior offers no detail and little charm, but it looks to be in move-in shape. Probably a two-family Kinko house when built, now it’s a three-family, with a three-bedroom owner’s duplex and a pair of floor-through apartments above. There’s also a “semi-finished” basement with a separate entrance.

Last up, on Quentin Road in Marine Park is a semi-detached single-family brick Tudor. A two-story, it’s got original wood floors and a distinctive arched doorway on the ground floor, which holds a living room, dining room and eat-in kitchen. The carpeted upstairs has three bedrooms and a tiled bathroom with a tub in a grotto of sorts. There’s a finished basement, a shared driveway and a detached garage.