Brooklyn Heights

No-Fee Heights Prewar With Two Bedrooms, Arches Asks $3,900

In a circa 1900 brick walkup, this four-room flat has a number of attractive vintage features, including herringbone floors.

Photo via Ideal Properties Group

by Cate Corcoran

01/02/2025 0

Boasting some attractive vintage features, this no-fee two-bedroom has come down a bit from when it was first listed for rent. The apartment sits on the fourth floor of 68 Middagh Street, a 10-unit, five-story walkup. With some rent regulated units, the apartment house last changed hands in 2021, public records show.

Attached on one side to a twin, the yellow and red brick apartment building is accented with carved limestone medallions and has a columned entrance and deep cornice. Going by Brooklyn Daily Eagle advertisements, it may have replaced a boarding house sometime in the late 19th century. Advertisements for the “cosiest flats in Brooklyn” appear as early as 1900, and an i-card going back to 1903 shows apartments of three and four rooms, mostly two to a floor, with interior airshafts for light and ventilation.

This one still has four rooms, though they may have been rearranged at some point. There are moldings, herringbone floors, shouldered arches, old five-paneled doors, and ceiling fans. The biggest bedroom fits a queen and the smallest a full bed, according to the listing. Both bedrooms have closets.

There are builder grade oak cupboards in the kitchen, along with a stone counter and green tile backsplash (but no dishwasher or laundry). With a circa 1930s basketweave floor, the black and white tile bathroom has a window and built-in clothes hamper.

Listed by Winny Lam of Ideal Properties Group, the no-fee unit is asking $3,900 a month (down from $4,100 at the start of December). Worth it?

[Listing: 68 Middagh Street #D | Broker: Ideal Properties Group] GMAP