One-Bedroom in Historic Cobble Hill Towers Asks $3,500 a Month
The petite unit in the 1870s building has been renovated with exposed beams and brick and an open kitchen.
Photo via Corcoran
It is petite and requires a walk up to the sixth floor, but this one-bedroom rental has been renovated and is in an 1870s building with a significant architectural pedigree. At 439 Hicks Street, the structure is part of the Cobble Hill Towers, a red-brick property developed by philanthropist Alfred Tredway White as housing for the working poor.
The complex of six-story buildings, which includes this one at 439 Hicks Street, went condo in 2010. It’s known for its exterior hallways and staircases, intended to increase fresh air and decrease illness when it was constructed. Consisting only of a few rooms, each unit had running water, a closet, and a stove for cooking and heating.
This apartment has been renovated with exposed rafters, exposed brick walls, and white finishes. It is compact, with a bedroom on one end and a living room on the other.
The kitchen is in a nook that is open to the living room. Cabinetry around the refrigerator minimizes its impact in the living space a bit, and the rest of the kitchen has white cabinets, white backsplash tile, and a dishwasher. There are two windows in the space.
In the bedroom is one of two closets in the unit. It also has a skyline view, according to the listing photos.
The white finishes extend to the bathroom, which has white fixtures and wall tile and black and white floor tile.
There is a shared laundry room in the building and two courtyard gardens for residents.
Corcoran’s Scott Sternberg, Kyle Talbott, and Karen Talbott have the listing, and the rental is priced at $3,500 a month.
[Listing: 439 Hicks Street, #6D | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP
[Photos via Corcoran]
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In referring to the history of this building, when you say “closet” do you mean “water closet”? Thank you.
Here it is referring to a closet, which could serve as a pantry. This description of the apartments in Tredway buildings is from a 1902 book about philanthropy – “The apartments are “self-contained”; rooms are supplied with water, a clothes-press with shelf and hooks, a place for a stove, and a coal-box, holding a quarter of a ton . . . There are closet and shelves in each kitchen to serve as a pantry . . .” Tredway also wrote about the buildings in his own publication Improved Dwellings for the Working Class (available online) and he does mention water closets in addition to storage closets.
Good question. I wondered the same thing. “Closet” here actually means a clothes press with a shelf and hooks. You can read more about it here: https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/19th-century-visionary-creates-novel-tenement-light-air-working-poor-cobble-hill/