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If bay windows are your thing, this prewar triplex on Prospect Park in Park Slope is worth a look — it has three sets of them. At 103 Prospect Park West, between 5th and 6th streets, it’s listed for $1,895,000.

You’ve got a living room in front on the parlor level, with an open kitchen and dining room in the back. The dining room has a parquet floor, a set of those bay windows, and a coffered ceiling in dark wood. The living room has a wall of built-in shelves and cabinets, which may or may not be original.

Up a spiral staircase is the master bedroom, with an adjoining office nook and a large and quite lovely terrace outside, reachable through one of the bay windows. Ideally it’d be more accessible from the living space below, but hey, a terrace is a terrace.

On the top floor, up a second spiral staircase, are two more bedrooms, one decent sized, one rather small. There’s also a full bath up there — the only one in the unit. There’s a half-bath on the master-bedroom level, and a third bathroom on the ground floor with a shower but no tub.

The building offers storage and laundry in the basement. Maintenance charges are a stiff $1,538 a month. Dogs are not allowed.

The co-op, listed by Gabriele Sewtz at Compass, went on the market in May, at $1,995,000. The price was reduced earlier this month.

Think it will move now, or is $1,895,000 still a reach, especially given the quirks in the layout? What’s your take on the place?

103 Prospect Park West, #2 [Compass] GMAP

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  1. 103 is mentioned specifically in the original land-marking document by LPC in 1973 (de-stooped). Architect of the five houses from 103-107 row was Axel Hedman, commissioned by a local man, Charles Peterson, as single family homes in 1899. The spiral staircases probably influence the price downward, big problem for kids, older folk and pets.

  2. Spiral staircases are a pain, but you get used to them pretty quickly, even with kids. I would think you could add a shower to the half bath on the middle floor since the full bath is right above it.

    This looks to be about 1300 sf excluding the terrace, so the price psf is high and there’s the maintenance on top of that. Reckon it’ll sell for around $1.6-$1.7m.