Park Slope

Family-Sized Park Slope Apartment With Mantels, Pocket Doors, Six Closets Wants $5,500

Family-sized apartments are hard to come by in Brooklyn, but this one would seem to fit the bill, with a flexible layout allowing for two or three bedrooms, at least.

by Cate Corcoran

07/07/2022 4 minute 0

Family-sized apartments are hard to come by in Brooklyn, but this one would seem to fit the bill, with a flexible layout allowing for two or three bedrooms, at least. It also has high ceilings, numerous original details and modern updates, including laundry and a dishwasher.

It’s located on the second floor of a four-story, three-unit Neo-Grec brownstone at 130 Berkeley Place in Park Slope. Likely built as an apartment house in the early 1880s, the flats building is close to Grand Army Plaza and the area’s coveted P.S. 282 elementary school.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle ads from 1884 describe it as a flats building. In 1886, the first unit, with “eight light rooms” and “perfect ventilation,” was for rent by the building owner, who lived next door.

The second-floor unit now has six rooms (or seven, if you count the combo laundry/pantry). The split layout is typical of the period, with a parlor in the front and dining room and kitchen at the rear, with two bedrooms in the center. Pocket doors, extra rooms, numerous closets and an internal hall make the unit bigger and more flexible than most.

The floor plan shows it with three bedrooms, the photos with two bedrooms, and other combos are possible. The big room at the rear, originally the dining room, has a stripped and incised slate mantel, low paneled wainscot, parquet, a tin ceiling and ceiling medallion. The big room at the front has a similar mantel, original door and window surrounds, picture-frame moldings and pocket doors that lead to a small side room that could serve as an office, library, storage or nursery.

Illuminated by a light well, the two center bedrooms are big enough for queen beds and have a closet each. The kitchen has a wood floor, granite counter, plenty of standard-issue wood cupboards, dishwasher, built-in microwave and space for a kitchen table.

An adjacent pantry holds a washer-dryer. The single bathroom in the unit is not shown, but the floor plan shows it holds a tile-in tub with shower and the listing says it is “fully renovated.”

The woodwork and walls are painted white throughout. The floor-through has six closets altogether. Apart from another bathroom, the only thing it would seem to lack is central air.

Listed by Michael and Michele Petrosino, the unit is available August 1. The rent is set at $5,500 a month. Worth it?

[Listing: 130 Berkeley Place #2 | Broker: Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP