Condo/Co-op of the Day Park Slope

Park Slope Duplex With Mantel, Built-ins, Parking Asks $1.999 Million

The two-bedroom unit has a spiral staircase connecting its two floors.

living room with built-ins, mantel, tin ceiling

Photo via Serhant

by Susan De Vries

02/20/2026 0

In an 1890s brownstone that was once a grand single-family, this duplex co-op still has some impressive details, including built-ins, a mantel, and wood floors. The two-bedroom apartment, which occupies a portion of the parlor and garden levels, is one of five units at 119 Prospect Park West and has the perk of private parking.

The building is one of a row of three constructed by developer Charles Hart beginning in 1899 to designs by architect William J. Ryan. The five-story houses face Prospect Park and sit within the Park Slope Historic District. The designation report dubs them Neo Italian Renaissance in style, and each has a prominent curved bay standing three stories high. By 1940, an i-card shows, No. 119 was being used as a boarding house, with one apartment and 15 furnished rooms. Ads in the 1950s reveal it was operating as the Queen of Peace Residence for Business Girls by the Sisters of Reparation of the Congregation of Mary. Breakfast and dinner were served and residents had the option of semi-private or private rooms.

This unit has a quirky layout with bedrooms on the lower level and a spiral staircase connecting the two floors. Both levels also have an entrance. There are 1.5 baths and in-unit laundry.

On the main level there is a petite foyer with steps leading down into the eat-in kitchen. Historic woodwork has been left in place with a kitchen inserted into one side of the room. There is a mix of dark wood cabinetry and a white-painted island with room for seating. (A virtually staged photo shows the cabinetry painted white.)

Beyond is the living room, which packs in the most impressive of the original details. There are built-in bookcases on either side of a columned mantel with original tile surround, a built-in sideboard, and wainscoting. The wood floor with inlaid border from the kitchen continues into the living room and both rooms have tin ceilings.

There is a half bath in a rear hallway as well as access to the spiral staircase.

Downstairs the largest bedroom has just one window, but it does have two closets and is large enough to fit a king-sized bed. The second bedroom could be set up as an office or den; a wall of sliding glass doors allows the room to be opened up to the hallway. It is sans closets, but there are two closets in the hallway, bringing the total count in the unit to five.

A new owner could make some style updates to the full bath, but the windowed space has a tin ceiling, a glass-doored shower, and white tile on the walls.

Access to the private parking space is via a rear door on the garden level and it looks like there is a bit of planting space as well.

Maintenance for this unit is $1,290 per month.

Serhant’s Cameron LeCates and Ravi Kantha have the listing, and the apartment is priced at $1.999 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 119 Prospect Park West #1 | Broker: Serhant] GMAP