Is This the Most Expensive Rental in Brooklyn?
A circa-1829 Federal-style townhouse at 113 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights just might be the most expensive home for rent in Brooklyn ever. It’s asking $30,000 a month. The listing, from Brown Harris Stevens, calls it an “important Willow Street home” and notes it’s on the National Register of Historic Places. It had a makeover about…

A circa-1829 Federal-style townhouse at 113 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights just might be the most expensive home for rent in Brooklyn ever. It’s asking $30,000 a month.
The listing, from Brown Harris Stevens, calls it an “important Willow Street home” and notes it’s on the National Register of Historic Places.
It had a makeover about a year ago, trading its asphalt shingles for clapboards, as the Brooklyn Eagle noted at the time.
It has some hefty competition — 11 Cranberry Street is asking $25,000 a month. 58 Hicks Street wants $17,500 a month.
The house at 113 Willow Street is not the oldest of the three — that claim goes to 58 Hicks Street, reportedly built in 1816. At 113 Willow Street, the open-plan parlor floor features a new kitchen as well as two woodburning fireplaces with original black marble mantels. A deck leads to a landscaped garden and bluestone patio.
Worth it?
Photo by Hannah Frishberg
The house in 2012, before renovation. Photo by Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark
Besides the mantels, it doesn’t look like any original detail from the 1820s was saved.
The Hicks Street house has a private driveway!
Crazy expensive – but I guess if you are a multi-millionaire it doesn’t matter. IMHO, this one is nicer than the comps on Hicks and Cranberry, which are both in earshot of BQE noise. This place would be blissfully quiet.