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Williamsburg Floor-Through in Fillmore Place Italianate Brick Row House Asks $2,500 a Month

Here’s a welcome break from the luxury rentals in newly sprouted high-rises that predominate in Williamsburg these days.

Brooklyn Apartments for Rent in Williamsburg at 16 Fillmore Place

by Chris Erikson

12/21/2017 3 minute 0

Here’s a welcome break from the luxury rentals in newly sprouted high-rises that predominate in Williamsburg these days. It’s an old-school walkup in an 1852 Italianate brick row house on block-long Fillmore Place, which comprises the neighborhood’s only historic district.

It’s down the block from the boyhood home of Henry Miller, who started life at 662 Driggs, and in Tropic of Capricorn called Fillmore “the most enchanting street I have ever seen in all my life,” no scant praise. Wrote Miller: “It was the ideal street — for a boy, a lover, a maniac, a drunkard, a crook, a lecher, a thug, an astronomer, a musician, a poet, a tailor, a shoemaker, a politician.”

Such people may be outnumbered by money managers and marketing VPs these days, but no matter, here’s a place where one might compose a novel by sputtering candlelight while sucking down cups of black Café Bustelo. Of course, it’d work for a marketing VP as well.

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It’s a floor-through with a large living room, a large kitchen, a classic tiled bathroom and a small bedroom. Quite small, though the listing asserts that it can fit a queen bed, and has photographic evidence to prove it.

There are hardwood floors, a tin ceiling in the kitchen and decorative moldings in the living room. There’s a stacked washer-dryer in a closet and another good-sized closet in the living room.

Listed by Eve Scott of Corcoran, the apartment is renting for $2,500 a month, heat and hot water not included. Which is a sight more than Miller’s family paid, even adjusting for inflation. But of course, there was no Apple store then. Any takers?

[Listing: 16 Fillmore Place #2 | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP