Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Big Edwardian Flat, a Stone House With a Story

Big Park Slope Edwardian Flat With Clawfoot Tub, Built-ins in Need of Work Asks $1.225 Million

For an occupant who appreciates original details and has the means to renovate, this top-floor sponsor unit brimming with original features has a number of rare attributes and could make an exceptional home. On the plus side: Beaucoup original details, an unusually big footprint, two bathrooms, a top floor perch with three exposures and roof rights. OTOH, it’s a fourth-story walkup, and needs extensive renovation.

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The Stone House of Somers, Traveling Menagerie Not Included, Yours for $1.6 Million

If only every historic house came with an unusual feature of this Westchester County Greek Revival: a handy carving documenting the year it was built, the original owner and the team of craftsmen involved. Dating to 1849, the house has an impressive stone exterior and a wealth of ornamental plasterwork on the interior.

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A Ditmas Park Colonial Revival With Garage and Three More to See, Starting at $749K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Prospect Heights, Ditmas Park, Bushwick and Flatbush. They range in price from $749,000 to $3.275 million.

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Estate-Condition Clinton Hill Brick House With Marble Mantels, Plasterwork Asks $2.795 Million

In the Clinton Hill Historic District, this 1860s brick row house hasn’t changed hands since the 1970s, and although in estate condition, it comes filled with period details like plasterwork, mantels and ceiling medallions. The house at 468 Waverly Avenue is one of two constructed circa 1867 to 1868 by builder Joseph Kirby, according to the designation report. Kirby lived around the corner on Gates Avenue at the time and was advertising multiple “first class” houses in the area for sale.

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Crown Heights Landlord Harassment, ‘A Living Hell,’ Includes Sewage, Drug Deals: Lawsuit

Over the past six months, 76-year-old Park Place tenant Francis Roberts says he has had sewage bubbling up through his kitchen sink due to broken plumbing and more leaking in front of his bedroom windows from two portable toilets set up outside. He alleges drug deals have taken place in tents set up around his front door where unknown people sleep and that he has woken up to a stranger using his computer at his table. That he has had music blared into his living room 24 hours a day through a hole in the ceiling. All the while, he said, he has seen no action on the increasing deterioration of his garden-floor apartment, which is plagued by mold, leaks, and gas and electricity outages.

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