Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: Beams, Brick, Marble Mantels and Bold Design Choices

This week’s most-viewed listings stressed homes with intriguing interiors — including 19th century details, statement wallpaper and minimalist rehabs. Two of the properties have a rustic charm, with beamed ceilings and painted brick walls, but houses with ornate mantels dominated the list.

While there were multiple listings in Bed Stuy and Red Hook, others were scattered across the borough. All the popular listings were priced over the million-dollar mark — the cheapest was a renovated townhouse in Bushwick at $1.35 million, and the most expensive was a detail-filled Brooklyn Heights brownstone at $5.25 million.

Which would you choose?

10. At 40 New York Avenue in Bed Stuy is a four-story, 22-foot-wide Italianate brownstone (albeit one in need of actual brownstoning). A legal three-family, it’s set up as a single residence, with the kitchen on the top floor. This one needs work, and quite possibly a lot, but the few photos are tantalizing, showing marble fireplaces, some ornate crown moldings, pocket shutters, and other detail.

40 New York Avenue
Price: $1.699 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Jevon Gratineau, Erica Liss)
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9. On Jefferson Avenue in Bushwick we’ve got a newly gut-renovated townhouse. It’s set up with a two-bedroom rental below a three-bedroom owner’s triplex, the latter featuring the usual open-plan parlor floor, with a granite-countered kitchen in the rear, and a glass door leading to a rear porch. There’s central air, washer/dryer hookups, a video intercom system, LED lighting and a “widely popular thermostat system.”

1210 Jefferson Avenue
Price: $1.35 million
Area: Bushwick
Broker: Bedford Brownstone Realty (Nathan Pinsky)
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8. Here’s a stately and comfortable brownstone in move-in condition, in prime Brooklyn Heights. It’s at 161 Hicks Street, near the Promenade and the 2/3 trains at Clark Street. It’s got all the details and trimmings you might want from a brownstone as well as modern comforts such as zoned central air.

161 Hicks Street
Price: $5.25 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Jill Seligson Braver)
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7. In Carroll Gardens, we have a two-family brownstone with exposed brick and marble mantels on a double lot. It’s set up as a simplex over a duplex. The backyard stretches across both lots, and there is also gated parking. A buyer could build a carriage house, studio or townhouse of up to 4,000 square feet, suggests the listing.

10 3rd Place
Price: $4.2 million
Area: Carroll Gardens
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Sal Capozucca, Victoria Capozucca)
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6. This three-story brick house at 82 Pioneer Street in Red Hook has a rustic, cottage-like vibe, with its painted wood floors, beamed ceilings and painted brick walls. A legal two-family, it’s set up as a single residence, with two bedrooms and 2.5 baths.

82 Pioneer Street
Price: $1.65 million
Area: Red Hook
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Nadine Adamson, Kelsey Hall)
Red Hook Charmer With Two Decks, Private Parking Asks $1.65 Million
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5. This Red Hook condo has a lot of space, triple exposures, some rustic charm and a private roof deck with views of the harbor and Manhattan skyline. It’s one of two apartments in a former industrial building at 156 Conover Street, with a commercial space on the ground floor that looks to be vacant.

156 Conover Street
Price: $1.795 million
Area: Red Hook
Broker: Compass (Matt Holbein, Katherine Camp)
Red Hook Duplex Condo With Triple Exposures, Roof Deck and Parking Spot Asks $1.75 Million
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4. This Bed Stuy brownstone is a head turner, with choice original details and some bold design choices that will thrill some buyers and turn off others. If it looks like it wasn’t the work of your average brownstone dweller that’d be correct — it’s the home of the flamboyant and genre-blurring singer and producer Santigold.

786 Putnam Avenue
Price: $1.95 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker:Compass (Helen Chee, Rezwan Sharif)
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3. A single-family house on 6th Avenue in Greenwood Heights is newly gut renovated in a modern style. Long and narrow would be one way to describe it — it’s 60 feet deep and some 15 feet wide. It’s got an open plan lower floor with a skylit double height section, a glass wall in the rear and a center kitchen with a long island and Carrara quartz countertops. Upstairs are three bedrooms and two full baths.

694A 6th Avenue
Price: $2.35 million
Area: Greenwood Heights
Broker: Compass (Maxine Resnick, Alyssa Morris)
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2. In Ditmas Park there is a 1907 Neo-Colonial style freestanding home of generous proportions. Thirty-eight feet wide, it’s got a sprawling first floor with a large foyer, a vast living room, a dining room, a breakfast nook, a sun room, a kitchen, a half bath and two working fireplaces with marble surrounds. There are five bedrooms, including a master with an en suite bath, a dressing room and a ton of closet space.

162 Argyle Road
Price: $2.25 million
Area: Ditmas Park
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Carolyn Cedar)
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1. On Sterling Place in the Prospect Heights Historic District is a venerable four-story circa 1901 Renaissance Revival limestone by architect Benjamin Driesler, with a barrel front. It’s got some nice original details, including Tiffany stained glass window transoms, a hallway pier mirror, leaded glass French doors, a coffered dining room ceiling, wainscoting, and a pair of fireplace mantels. It’s set up as a two-family, with a five-bedroom triplex below.

372 Sterling Place
Price: $3.8 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Suzanne Forrester
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