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Crown Heights Row House With Artist-Designed Reno, Glass-Walled Staircase Asks $2.199 Million

This circa 1914 brick row house with a center bay is a flip, but not your average one.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Crown Heights at 1160 Union Street

by Chris Erikson

09/01/2017 3 minute 0

This circa 1914 tan-brick Crown Heights row house with a center bay is a flip, but not your average one. At 1160 Union Street, the renovation was artist-designed (by “French artist Virginie Sommet,” per the listing), and has a modern feel and some non-standard features including a glass-walled floating wood staircase and a green wall (or “vertical garden”) in the rear.

It’s a gut renovation; everything is new, pretty much, from the front door to wide-plank oak floors back to the horizontal garden fence.

It’s set up as a duplex over a rental. There’s no floorplan, but the upper duplex is said to have three bedrooms, the lower unit two.

The parlor floor is open plan, natch, with the aforementioned glass-walled staircase in the middle and a wall of sliding glass doors in the rear kitchen that lead out to a deck, with stairs down to a nicely done back yard.

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The kitchen’s got a center island topped with white stone and a wall of flat-fronted white cabinetry (“electronic cabinetry,” the listing says, “hiding loads of high-end and high-tech culinary equipment,” a head-scratcher of an assertion). Actually everything’s white in here, including the tile backsplash, the panel-doored fridge, the stove and the stools.

There are custom organizers in the bedroom closets and a closeted washer and dryer. There’s new plumbing and HVAC, according to DOB filings. There’s also “access to a roof deck awaiting your personal touch,” which may just mean access to a roof where a deck could be constructed, or perhaps something more.

The house does appear to have a tax lien of $24,425.14 against it, if we read the public records correctly. The house, which sold to an LLC in 2015 for $450,000, is now asking more than quadruple that figure, $2.199 million. The broker is listed as Sam Harris. Like the look of it?

[Listing: 1160 Union Street | Broker: Sam Harris] GMAP