Renovated Two-Family Close to Brooklyn College Has Marble, Penny Tile, A/C
This newly renovated house in South Midwood sits a stone’s throw from Brooklyn College. Dating to 1920, according to the listing, the detached two-family is a large one, with six bedrooms and a garage, sitting on a 4,000-square foot lot. The place is split into two three-bedroom units, one on each floor. They’re pretty much…
This newly renovated house in South Midwood sits a stone’s throw from Brooklyn College. Dating to 1920, according to the listing, the detached two-family is a large one, with six bedrooms and a garage, sitting on a 4,000-square foot lot.
The place is split into two three-bedroom units, one on each floor. They’re pretty much identical, with a massive, window-lined living/dining room in front, the kitchen behind it, and three bedrooms of decent size in the rear. The second-floor occupant also gets a good-sized attic space.
All of it is newly renovated, top to bottom, and the exterior looks to have been redone as well. The house sold for $750,000 in May, according to PropertyShark, to a buyer who’s done the overhaul and is looking for a return on their investment.
Both the bathroom and the kitchen look better than the average flip, and the rest of the rooms and their period details, such as a red brick mantel and parquet floors, seem to have mostly been left intact.
The marble-countered kitchen has a more convenient layout than the typical Brooklyn kitchen, with plenty of counter space, cabinets and white tile. (Presumably that oversized fridge is not as close to the island as it appears.)
The bathroom is modern, with white subway tile and salt-and-pepper penny tile. Some of the hardwood floors are new, according to the listing.
We also see mini splits in some of the rooms, so there is air conditioning. There are no photos of the back yard, so we don’t know what that looks like.
The listing, from Mordechai M. Werde and Michael Ettelson of Town Residential, asserts that the place is “mere steps” from the Q/B and 2/5 trains (at Avenue H and Flatbush Avenue, respectively), which could fairly be called, to use Huckleberry Finn’s term, a stretcher. (For that matter, the same could be said of calling this Ditmas Park.)
What do you think of the place, and the asking price of $1,290,000?
Listing: 826 East 22nd Street | Broker: Town Residential | Photos by Town Residential] GMAP
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Looks like they did nice thoughtful work. But why use the home Depot light fixtures installed in the bedrooms?
I looked at this house before it was renovated, when it was last for sale. It was not in bad shape – the exterior looked like the owner had started to redo it but ran out of money. The inside was decent and the mechanicals seemed good. Good price, at that time, for a huge house with lots of light, parking, and a yard. Plus the rental was very big.
The location is weird. The block is nice, and Brooklyn college is your neighbor, but there is nothing at all within a 10 minute walk, no grocery stores, pharmacies, restaurants, bars, nothing. It’s like a weird Bermuda triangle down there. The subway is almost 10 minutes away, across Ocean ave. There are plenty of lovely buildings, large houses in the Ditmas Park style, if not Ditmas geographically, but you are going to drive everywhere.
Almost totally agree with chemosphere. The 2 and 5 are about a five minute walk away. But in the glorified “junction” where they are there is no real food shopping. Unless you count Target and a third rate Met as fine places to shop for food. I was excited that there would be a new restaurant in the junction till I learned it would be: Dallas BBQ.