Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Sunset Park Affordable Housing, a Prospect Heights Reno

Estate Condition Clinton Hill Anglo-Italianate With Adjacent Garden Lot Asks $2.498 Million

This Anglo-Italianate in Clinton Hill is not for the faint of heart. While there are some marble mantels and moldings to be seen, much of the interior of the 14-foot-wide row house on Cambridge Place looks like a renovation job interrupted. While narrow, the house benefits from an adjacent garden that is being sold together with the house, although the two are priced separately.

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Lottery Opens for Affordable Housing Above Sunset Park Library, Starting at $524 a Month

A lottery has opened for 40 genuinely affordable apartments at 372 51st Street in Sunset Park, where the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is undergoing redevelopment. The one-story structure is being replaced with a new eight-story building containing 50 apartments and a library condo at its base with 20,000 square feet of space, almost twice the size of the old library.

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Fort Greene Italianate Brownstone With Marble Mantels, Pier Mirrors Asks $3.25 Million

Just around the corner from Fort Greene Park, this Italianate brownstone has an appealing location and an interior that has some original details remaining after its conversion to a three-family dwelling in the 1990s. The brownstone at 19 South Elliott Place dates to circa 1870, according to the Fort Greene Historic District designation report, and the exterior has many of the hallmarks of a classic Italianate brownstone.

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A Colonial Revival Row House in South Midwood and Three More to See, Starting at $899K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Boerum Hill, Bed Stuy, East Flatbush and South Midwood. They range in price from $4.35 million to $899,000.

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The Insider: Prospect Heights Townhouse Goes Light and Bright With Salvaged Marble Mantels

Three stories high and just shy of 17 feet wide, the circa 1892 Renaissance Revival brownstone and sandstone row house, newly purchased by a couple who had been living in lower Manhattan, was amply supplied with original detail, including stained glass, wainscoting, an intact staircase and carved wood mantels in Queen Anne style.

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