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Bed Stuy Brownstone With Original Details, Potential Asks $1.75 Million

This brownstone needs work and may come with other issues as well, but its original details are intact and awaiting someone ready to take on a restoration project.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Bed Stuy at 596 MacDonough Street

by Chris Erikson

09/11/2017 3 minute 0

This Bed Stuy brownstone needs work and may come with other issues as well, but its original details are intact and awaiting someone ready to take on a restoration project. It’s at 596 MacDonough Street, between Ralph and Howard avenues.

To get right to the “other issues” — it’s a four story with three units, a lower duplex and two upper floor-throughs, and the listing allows that one “may not be delivered vacant.” So that’s a major question mark. (Interested buyers are invited to contact the brokers — Christine Toes Muldoon and Nancy Robbins of Compass — for details.)

There are plenty of blanks to fill in as far as the overall condition as well. The photos show a garden floor that’s in need of some attention, a single shot from another unit that looks to have been renovated, with a new floor, and then a few close up shots of details from the parlor floor, which is otherwise not shown.

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Details include fireplace mantels, mirrors (all painted white), pocket doors, tin ceilings, waincoting, built-in cabinetry, moldings and front-hallway fretwork. The backyard is also pictured; it has not seen the loving touch of a gardener in some time.

On the plus side, the yard is extra spacious, as the lot is 127 feet deep. (The house itself, 18.75 by 45 feet.)

So if it’s a turnkey you’re after this is definitely not your place, but for those willing to get their hands dirty there’s potential here. The ask: $1.75 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 596 MacDonough Street | Broker: Compass] GMAP