House of the Day: 494 Decatur Street
If Monday’s $1,500,000 townhouse in east Bed Stuy wasn’t in your budget, you might want to take a look at 494 Decatur Street. Located between Ralph and Malcolm X Patchen, the three-story, two-family brick house has beautiful inlaid and parquet floors and all its original details, including slate fireplaces and moldings – at least in…
If Monday’s $1,500,000 townhouse in east Bed Stuy wasn’t in your budget, you might want to take a look at 494 Decatur Street. Located between Ralph and Malcolm X Patchen, the three-story, two-family brick house has beautiful inlaid and parquet floors and all its original details, including slate fireplaces and moldings – at least in the rooms pictured.
We wish there were more photos, but the floor plan looks promising — mostly original, including an unfitted kitchen, both big pluses in our book.
Set up as a top-floor rental apartment over an owner’s duplex, it does have a typical drawback of single family houses converted to two: The parlor floor is used as bedrooms and the bathroom is on the garden floor.
What do you think of it for $999,000?
494 Decatur Street [Corcoran] GMAP
Good bones and priced fairly. Can you flip it to make the garden level the rental and an owners duplex above? Or does that require filling paperwork with the dreaded DOB?
Why would this house have radiators and forced air vents? Is this common?