You read it here this week: Brownstone Brooklyn is awash in townhouses for sale. Herewith are four you can examine up close this weekend, spanning the neighborhoods Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Windsor Terrace.

On Dean Street in Boerum Hill we’ve got a lovely four-story brownstone on a lovely block, with all the high parlor ceilings and details you’d want in a Boerum Hill brownstone, including no fewer than eight original fireplaces. It’s split into two duplexes, an owner’s duplex on the bottom and a rental above. Extra-nice garden on this one, which is showing Sunday for the first time.

In Carroll Gardens we’ve got a 20-foot brownstone on 3rd Place, a coveted front-garden block. Not quite as beguiling as the one above, it’s four stories divided into four units, ready to convert to a single-family or a triplex with a garden rental. Which will take some work, as will the upgrading this house calls out for, but there’s plenty of potential there.

The Park Slope pick is not your average brownstone: On the ground floor it’s got a loft-like open space running the full length of the lot, with six skylights in the back. (It’s also got a driveway.) Above the loft space is a four-bedroom duplex. The ground floor could be put to any number of uses — among those suggested in the listing are recording studio, home theater, lap pool (!) and woodworking shop.

Last up, the only non-brownstone of the bunch, which sits across from Prospect Park, at 88 Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace. With painted blue siding (unless that’s actually aluminum), the house is a three-story single-family with four bedrooms (the listing says three plus an office, but all are bedroom size). It’s an interesting one — vaguely suburban-looking but kind of charming.

Brooklyn Open Houses -- Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Windsor Terrace

251 Dean Street in Boerum Hill
Price: $4,200,000
Broker: Corcoran
Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.

Brooklyn Open Houses -- Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Windsor Terrace

18 3rd Place in Carroll Gardens
Price: $4,195,000
Broker: Corcoran
Sunday 12 to 2 p.m.

Brooklyn Open Houses -- Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Windsor Terrace

291 8th Street in Park Slope
Price: $2,700,000
Broker: Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Brooklyn Open Houses -- Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Windsor Terrace

88 Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace
Price: $1,850,000
Broker: Paul Ramirez
Sunday 1 to 2:30 p.m.

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