Spring Has Sprung for Open Houses: Four With Details to See This Week

Though snow may hit Sunday, spring is in the air — a transformation that can be seen in the green shoots peeking up through the dirt as well as the growing number of houses on the market. Plenty to choose from this week, and from them we’ve selected the following four, which span the neighborhoods Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Bedford Stuyvesant.

On Sidney Place in Brooklyn Heights we’ve got a landmarked one-family townhouse dating to 1846. In addition to six working fireplaces, it’s got some distinctive features, from its trapezoidal shape and its winding center staircase to top-floor loft space and its second kitchen, located on the third floor. No garden with this one, but there’s a deck off the third floor.

Moving over to Cobble Hill, we’ve got a house on Cheever Place, one of the coveted short streets running between Kane and DeGraw. This one’s set up with a one-bedroom rental on each of three floors, so it’s going to need some work for anyone looking to do an owner’s duplex or triplex. What’s pictured looks to be in good shape, and there are some details including moldings, mantels and tin ceilings.

On Lefferts Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District is another home currently set up for rental living, with floor-through apartments on each of its two floors. So again, we’re looking at a renovation project for anyone aspiring to make a single-family home of it. This one’s also got moldings, tin ceilings and some original parquet floors. Kitchens and baths are reported to have been recently renovated.

Last up, a Renaissance Revival brownstone on Decatur Street in Bed Stuy that was an Open House Pick a year ago is now back with a different agent — and a lower price tag. The configuration is a little hard to get a handle on (the listing calls it a double duplex although the floor plan shows three kitchens). It mixes nice original details — parquet floors, mirrors, mantels, stained glass, pocket doors, tin ceilings — with some updating that not every buyer is going to warm to. Needs work, but there looks to be potential there.

2 Sidney Place
Price: $4.95 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Bill Sheppard)
Sunday 2-4 p.m.
See it here ->

18 Cheever Place
Price: $3.2 million
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Halstead (Rod Murray, Geraldine Griffin)
Sunday 12-2 p.m.
See it here ->

298 Lefferts Avenue
Price: $1.3 million
Area: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Broker: Corcoran (John Bomba)
Sunday 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
See it here ->

512 Decatur Street
Price: $1.195 million
Area: Bedford Stuyvesant
Broker: Warren Lewis/Sotheby’s (Suzette Bather-Taylor, Steve Sallion)
Tuesday 5:45-7:30 p.m.; Wednesday 6-7 p.m.
See it here ->

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