The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a wood frame in Park Slope, a freestanding home in Fiske Terrace and a Neo-Grec brownstone in Bed Stuy.

Readers were looking across the borough this week, popular listings were scattered from Midwood Park to Brooklyn Heights. The least expensive is Park Slope co-op on the market for $949,000. The most expensive is a Brooklyn Heights carriage house at $6.5 million.

Which would you choose?

10. Here’s an unusual (for Park Slope) early- to mid-19th-century wood-frame home with a porch, wide-plank floors, and a brick carriage house in the rear.

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237 14th Street
Price: $2.5 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Rita Van Straten, Robert Gross)
A Collection of Detail-Rich Homes — One With a Carriage House — to See, Starting at $1.795 Million
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9. In Park Slope, this quite remarkable Romanesque/Neo-Grec two-family townhouse has carved marble mantels and other historic details, along with radiant heated floors and air conditioning.

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Photo by Tina Gallo via The Corcoran Group

57 Saint Marks Avenue
Price: $3.5 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Sandra Cordoba)
Townhouses With Historical Details and Updates to See This Weekend, Starting at $2.5 Million
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8. This freestanding house in Fiske Terrace has no fewer than eight bedrooms. It has a wraparound porch, a garage, and tons of interior details, including unpainted woodwork, leaded and stained glass, built-in cabinets, and a pristine original bathroom.

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750 East 18th Street
Price: $1.795 million
Area: Fiske Terrace
Broker: Compass (Laura Razos)
A Collection of Detail-Rich Homes — One With a Carriage House — to See, Starting at $1.795 Million
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7. Here’s a huge four-family brownstone in Park Slope with a rear extension. Records show that it has been in the same family for decades. It has some particularly notable over-the-top window and door trim and, on the facade, a wide bracketed cornice and projecting Neo-Grec features.

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Photo via The Corcoran Group

84 6th Avenue
Price: $3.75 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Paul Policastro)
A Collection of Detail-Rich Homes — One With a Carriage House — to See, Starting at $1.795 Million
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6. In Bed Stuy, a Neo-Grec brownstone with incised floriate decorations on the facade has updated kitchens but retains its fanciful details, including elaborate fireplaces, trim topped with imposing crowns, and colorful tile.

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Photo via The Corcoran Group

118 MacDonough Street
Price: $2.395 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Sue Wolfe, Lissa Wolfe)
A Collection of Detail-Rich Homes — One With a Carriage House — to See, Starting at $1.795 Million
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5. This striking turn-of-the-last-century townhouse built by one of Brooklyn’s “lady developers” has an unusual graphic facade and a sparkling new kitchen and other updates that highlight its original features.

856 st johns place
Photo by Russ Ross, courtesy of The Corcoran Group

856 St. Johns Place
Price: $1.995 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Peter Gordenstein, Danielle Nazinitsky)
Elegant Crown Heights Limestone With Palladian Windows, New Kitchen Asks $1.995 Million
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4.  A two-bedroom, one-bath co-op is for sale in an eight-unit circa 1900 Neo-Georgian walkup in the Park Slope Historic District. The apartment is on the second floor at 509 2nd Street and features plenty of woodwork, window and door trim and built-ins with egg and dart molding, fluting and classical motifs.

509 2nd Street, #2R
Price: $949,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Compass (Debra Bondy, Sally Marmet)
Park Slope Co-op With Two Bedrooms, Built-ins and Trim in Neo-Classical Walk-up Asks $949K
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3. We know not which gent originally rode his buggy into this late 19th century carriage house or exactly when it was built, but its magnificent arched entrance and windows recall features of Romanesque Revival architecture, and old maps show a stable at the property by 1880.

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Photo by DDReps, courtesy of The Corcoran Group

4 Hunts Lane
Price: $6.5 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Corcoran (Deborah Rieders, Sarah Shuken) co-exclusive with Compass (Nick Gavin, Josh Doyle)
Landmarked Brooklyn Heights Carriage House With Lofty Living Room, Indoor Parking Asks $6.5 Million
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2. This circa 1912 standalone Dutch Colonial Revival is one of three in the Midwood Park area developed by Teresa Strong, one of a few “lady developers” of the time, together with her architect husband, Arthur Strong. Its gambrel roof, columned porch, angled second-story bay windows, rough-faced concrete block foundation, wood-shingled facade and grassy strip of a driveway give it a distinctive street presence.

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645 East 17th Street
Price: $1.79 million
Area: Midwood Park
Broker: Compass (Alexandra Reddish, Madeleine Gallagher)
Standalone Dutch Colonial in Midwood Park With Porch, Parking, Fireplace Asks $1.79 Million
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1. This Queen Anne style townhouse in Greenwood Heights has an unexpected exuberance inside and out, standing a touch taller than its neighbors on 4th Avenue and adding a fair amount of English, to borrow an expression from billiards.

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720 4th Avenue
Price: $1.9 million
Area: Greenwood Heights
Broker: Compass ( Fouad Rahmé and Grace Rahmé)
Greenwood Heights Townhouse With Queen Anne Zip, Deck, Colorful Mantels Asks $1.9 Million
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