Condo/Co-op of the Day

Sponsor Unit With High Ceilings, Six Rooms, Mantel in Park Slope Neo-Grec Building Asks $815K

This sponsor unit in a 19th century apartment house turned co-op needs work but has good bones and can fit a small family in a coveted neighborhood.

by Cate Corcoran

03/08/2022 3 minute 0

This sponsor unit in a 19th century apartment house turned co-op needs work but has good bones and can fit a small family in a coveted neighborhood. It’s on the third floor of 674 Carroll Street in Park Slope, a late 19th century Neo-Grec-style brick walkup with an angled front bay and incised detail.

The six-room apartment has high ceilings, wood floors, casings, moldings, shutters and a mantel. While closets are scarce, the unit has an internal hall, two bedrooms in the center, a parlor in the front, and a dining room in the rear. In the front next to the parlor is a small room that could serve as entry vestibule, an office or a third bedroom.

The kitchen and bathroom are not shown, so likely they need redoing, along with electrical, refinishing the floors and painting. Interestingly, a recently remodeled Brooklyn Heights unit on the market is in a nearly identical building and appears to have originally had exactly the same floor plan.

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A broker-supplied alternative floor plan shows how it would be possible to gut the unit and remove all the original details to make it look like a generic new-construction unit.

If the apartment were restored, the recessed niche near the entrance could accommodate a built-in bench with storage, coat hooks and a shelf. The smaller of the two bedrooms appears to have room for a closet and pocket doors, and the kitchen storage can be reconfigured to create a large walk-in closet and additional pantry storage. A salvage decorative mantel could be added to the chimney in the living room.

The four-unit building is “well managed and maintained,” according to the listing, from Tony Fanning of Daniel Gale Associates Inc. Maintenance for the unit is $800 a month, and the apartment is asking $815,000. What do you think of it?

[Listing: 674 Carroll Street #3 | Broker: Daniel Gale Associates] GMAP