This Week’s Top 10 Real Estate Listings: Hot for Bed Stuy

Is something in the air? Four of the homes in this week’s Top 10 are in Bedford Stuyvesant: a two-unit triplex, a four-story flip, a wood-frame that needs some love, and a gorgeously renovated home on Macon Street. But maybe you’d prefer the Park Slope loft with towering ceilings or the rambling Flatbush Victorian.

Which would you choose?

10. Last week’s No. 3, this triplex on Madison Street in Bed Stuy is currently set up with a rental on the top floor. It needs a bit of love, though there are original details here that ought to clean up nicely.

587 Madison Street
Price: $1,500,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Adam Sikorski/Keith Arthur)
Open House Pick
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9. Last week’s fifth place, this third-floor walkup duplex on 12th Street in the South Slope has what you want in a loft: towering ceilings, cavernous spaces and giant windows. If you’re down on exposed brick, though, this isn’t the place for you — it’s dominated by a massive wall of it.

459 12th Street
Price: $1,200,000
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Sotheby’s (Jennifer Lanza/Jeremy Stein)
Co-op of the Day
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8. Moving from No. 4, this Fort Greene 1855 brick row house on Clermont Avenue is a 22-footer that packs over 4,000 square feet on six levels, including a partially finished basement and a rooftop extension. Split into a duplex and two rentals, the place has decks on three floors, so there’s a lot of surface area at work. It’s got a sweet parlor floor with towering ceilings and a lot of detail — though it’s got a master bathroom planted in the middle, which you don’t often see.

426 Clermont Avenue
Price: $3,150,000
Area: Fort Greene
Broker: Brown Harris Stevens (Alexander Raubicheck)
Open House Pick
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7. If you’ve always thrilled at the idea of living on a Brooklyn Heights “fruit street” then here’s your chance — this sweet one-bedroom is directly across from the historic Plymouth Church, no less. It’s all the convenience of a modern apartment with the neighborhood charm and character of Brooklyn’s first landmarked district.

54 Orange Street #3G
Price: $679,000
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Brooklyn Bridge Realty (Ellen Gottlieb)
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6. This grand Victorian on Rugby Road in Ditmas Park West, which was No. 1 in last week’s Top 10, is quite a nice find for someone in search of a rambling six-bedroom home. It’s been in the same family for 52 years and still retains a lot of original detail. Some updating is in order, but generally it’s in top shape, with tons of square footage and some lovely spaces.

447 Rugby Road
Price: $1,950,000
Area: Flatbush
Broker: Compass (Debra Bondy)
Open House Pick
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5. As flips go, this four-story brownstone in Bed Stuy is nicer than average. It’s set up with an owner’s triplex above and a pair of studio apartments on the garden floor, one of which is duplexed to a finished basement. The triplex has four bedrooms, as well as a spacious second living room (or “library”) on the second floor.

294 Clifton Place
Price: $2,700,000
Area: Bed Stuy/Clinton Hill
Broker: LGM (Liani Greaves)
House of the Day
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4. On Bergen Street in Boerum Hill we’ve got a 20-foot-wide house set up with a five-bedroom triplex above and a garden-level rental. The three interior photos are underwhelming but we spy an original staircase and some exposed brick. The listing’s reference to a “wonderful opportunity to create your dream home” suggests a gut may be in order, even if the whopping price tag doesn’t.

233 Bergen
Price: $3,749,000
Area: Boerum Hill
Broker: Town Residential (Jill Camac/Brett Buehler)
Open House Pick
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3. This 22-foot-wide wood-frame townhouse on Clifton Place in Bed Stuy has got some original details intact, including mantels, moldings, and clawfoot tubs, but needs a total overhaul — a fact that didn’t stop the sellers from asking $1.95 million.

125 Clifton Place
Price: $1,950,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (Adam Sikorski/Kila Lamadora)
Open House Pick
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2. Here in Carroll Gardens we’re looking at a four-story townhouse with a brick and brownstone facade. It’s set up as a three-family with an owner’s duplex on the parlor and garden levels.

365 Hoyt Street
Price: $3,000,000
Area: Carroll Gardens
Broker: Corcoran (Tom Le/Dennis McCarthy/Michael Pacifico)
Open House Pick
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1. Moving from No. 6 is this week’s most popular listing, a seven-bed, five-and-a-half-bath house on Macon Street in Bed Stuy that is full of distinctive finishes, from a cedar clapboard facade and burnished-copper-mimicking bathroom tiles to copper pendant lighting and a black Bosch fridge in the kitchen and oil-rubbed bronze closet hardware. Renovated and modernized, this fetching house has an upper triplex and a garden-level rental.

237 Macon Street
Price: $1,795,000
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Corcoran (Deborah Rieders/Sarah Shuken)
Open House Pick
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