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I just realized that the Burns Street houses share another characteristic with those on Chester Court—proximity to railroad tracks— the LITR for the former and the Brighton line subway for the latter. having grown up pff of Austin Street (across the tracks from Burns) I can say that the LIRR is much louder than the subway.
A PLG Tudor and More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.295 MillionThere are also houses with Tudor touches in southern Brooklyn, but they’re not much like these. The houses in the Forest Hills Gardens are also quite different I know those fairly well having passed them for years while walking to school at PS 101–“the School on the Gardens”.
A PLG Tudor and More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.295 MillionNot Brownstone Brooklyn but there is a little collection of them at Foster and East 23rd. Also a good collection around Burns St in Forest Hills Gardens out in Queens.
A PLG Tudor and More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.295 MillionTudor revival row houses are reallly unusual in NYC. Chester Court is one of four City Historic Districts in PLG. There are a few more similar Tudor revival houses across Flatbush Avenue on Rutland Road in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Historic District. I don’t know of any others in brownstone Brooklyn.
A PLG Tudor and More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.295 Million