Brooklyn Charm
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135 Joralemon St. At Sidney Place
$5.725 million
Approximate Monthly Taxes: $583
Broker: Rhea Cohen/Brown Harris Stevens
This newly renovated 25-foot-wide Federal-style clapboard townhouse is located in Brooklyn Heights. The garden level includes a family room, kitchen, bath, mud room, and front and rear gardens. The first floor has a living room, dining room, powder room, and porches in the back and the front. The second floor contains the master suite (with his and hers closets) and an adjoining sitting room. The third floor has three bedrooms, a bathroom, and a laundry nook. The restored kitchen features beamed ceilings, butcher-block countertops, walnut cabinetry, a farm sink, and top-of-the-line appliances. Other details in this 1830s home include five wood-burning fireplaces, new leaded glass, double-acting French doors (leading to both porches), and wide plank pine and oak floors.
56 Hawthorne Road Between Flatbush and Bedford avenues
$999,000
Approximate Monthly Taxes: $281
Broker: Abigail Golde/Aguayo & Huebener
This two-family, barrel-bay, 20-foot-wide limestone townhouse, approximately 3,300 square feet, is located just a few blocks from Prospect Park in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The first floor has a living room, kitchen (and walk-in pantry), butler’s pantry, laundry room, powder room, and garden. The second floor has a master bedroom, center parlor, front parlor, bathroom with a claw-footed tub, and guest room. The third floor is configured currently as a six-room apartment. Original details throughout this turn-of-the-century home include parquet floors, bay windows, French and pocket doors, stained and beveled glass, and builtin cabinetry. It also contains 11 closets and three fireplaces (one is decorative and in the French style) with elegant mantels.
128 Lincoln Place Between Sixth and Seventh avenues
$2.75 million
Approximate Monthly Taxes: $407
Broker: Kim Soule/Corcoran
Located in Park Slope, this 1895 townhouse is approximately 3,650 square feet. The garden floor has a living area, bedroom, eat-in kitchen, bathroom, and landscaped garden. The parlor floor has a living room, eat-in kitchen, and deck. The third and fourth floors each have three bedrooms with his and hers sinks between the two larger rooms, and a full bath. Original details include pocket doors and windows, tin ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace (and six decorative ones), and inlaid parquet and sub-pine floors. This 20-foot-wide brownstone now is divided between a garden-level floor-through and an upstairs triplex.