Promising Bed Stuy Brownstone Has Ornate Details, May Need Work, Asks $1.4 Million
This bay-fronted Bed Stuy brownstone may need some work, and maybe quite a lot of it, but it’s got some fetching period detail that would reward any renovation effort.
This bay-fronted Bed Stuy brownstone may need some work, and maybe quite a lot of it, but it’s got some fetching period detail that would reward any renovation effort. It’s at 670 Macon Street, between Ralph and Patchen avenues.
Eighteen feet in width, the house is set up with a lower duplex and a pair of apartments above — it’s legally a two-family, though, so to stay within the law you’re going to want to create a triplex with a rental or a single residence. There’s a small rear extension on the garden level that currently houses the duplex kitchen.
There aren’t a ton of photos, but the ones there reveal a good deal of detail on the parlor floor, including moldings, woodwork, a big pier mirror, stained glass window transoms, pocket doors and wainscoting in the stairway. In a just world there would be gleaming inlaid parquet floors under that turquoise carpeting, though we can’t say for sure.
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There’s at least one parquet floor upstairs, which is pictured, and a mantel as well, which seems to be one of a handful, going by the floor plan.
The kitchen pictured appears to be in good shape. The listing doesn’t say anything about condition; to hear that upgrades are needed to the mechanicals and elsewhere would not shock us.
Listed by Coldwell Banker agent Harun Henry, the house is asking $1.4 million. What’s your take on it?
[Listing: 670 Macon Street | Broker: Coldwell Banker] GMAP
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