Brooklyn Real Estate Six Months Later: Three Sold, One in Contract

This week, our look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Bay Ridge, Crown Heights, Sunset Park and Brooklyn Heights. How did they fare?

Starting off this week, on the first floor of a 1920s Finnish co-operative building is a one-bedroom that has a few prewar details, a renovated kitchen and a location a short walk from Sunset Park. Wood floors with inlaid borders, moldings, a glass-paned door and some vintage hardware are a few of the original details to be found inside this unit along with some 21st century design additions. Amenities in the building include solar panels, along with bike storage and a common courtyard. Monthly maintenance for the Sunset Park unit is $447 a month and a private storage bin is provided at no additional charge. A former Co-op of the Day, it sold in August for $425,000, which was $15,000 above the asking price.

Next, on 67th Street in Bay Ridge, a brick row house with an angled bay is a three-family with two rentals above an owner’s duplex. There’s an original newel post at the entry and the duplex, the only unit pictured, has wood floors, mantels and some moldings. The kitchen has an exposed brick wall, green cabinets and appears in good repair. There’s one full bath next to the kitchen and a bedroom is on the garden level. This former Open House Pick entered contract in September.

In the Crown Heights North Historic District is a pale stone townhouse that looks to be another fine example of the work of prolific architect Axel Hedman, who designed hundreds of Brooklyn row houses, including many on this stretch of Prospect Place. The interior is rich with woodwork, including a pier mirror, fretwork, built-ins, pocket doors and mantels. A two-family with a top floor rental and owner’s duplex below, it has a total of four bedrooms and 2.5 baths, and the home has been in the same family since the early 1970s. A former House of the Day, it sold in July for the asking price of $1.925 million.

Last up this week is the long-time home of landscape architect Alice Recknagel Ireys in Brooklyn Heights. On the interior, the house has had some renovations over its many decades. But there are still some stylistic elements of the early 19th century to be found, including the newel post and stair, and moldings in the double parlors. The main kitchen and dining room are on the garden level where a wall of glass gives another vantage point from which to admire the garden, a two-tiered landscape designed by Ireys. A renovation by RKLA Studio included the addition of two curved staircases to connect the parlor and garden levels to the garden. The upper two floors include five bedrooms, three with mantels, and a full bath per floor. There is also a petite, windowed home office that looks out onto the garden. A former House of the Day, it sold in August for $7.35 million, which was $145,000 below the asking price.

728 41st Street #1C
Price: $410,000
Area: Sunset Park
Broker: Corcoran (Peter Bracichowicz)
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Sold in August for $425,000

221 67th Street
Price: $1.55 million
Area: Bay Ridge
Broker: Compass (Violette Tonuzi, Jorn Van Der Heide)
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Entered contract in September

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1092 Prospect Place
Price: $1.925 million
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Compass (Tricia Lee)
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Sold in July for $1.925 million

45 Willow Street
Price: $7.495 million
Area: Brooklyn Heights
Broker: Leslie J. Garfield (Ravi Kantha, Matthew Lesser, Gian Mitchell, Cameron LeCates)
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Sold in August for $7.35 million

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