5 Amazing Brooklyn Brownstones

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LOCATION: 81 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

PRICE: $14.5 million

SIZE: 8,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

Property descriptions are notoriously filled with hyperbole, but when a Brooklyn townhouse is listed for $14.5 million, the hype better be worth it. Part of the high sales price is due to the 25-foot-width of the home, a rarity amid most bowling alley shaped townhouses. This Brooklyn Heights single-family home has been gut renovated by The Brooklyn Home Company, a family-run group of house flippers who focus on historic Brooklyn properties.
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LOCATION: 81 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

PRICE: $14.5 million

SIZE: 8,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

What does $14.5 million get you? A new 8,000-square-foot house in the center of towny Brooklyn Heights. Not much of the original 1845 Greek Revival dwelling has been left. A few moldings, mantels and fireplaces, and part of the exterior, but otherwise, this is brand-new high-end luxury all the way.
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LOCATION: 81 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

PRICE: $14.5 million

SIZE: 8,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

White oak floors in a chevron pattern, yards of Carrera marble, an opened back wall of windows allows light to flood in, and state-of-the-art kitchen with a Cluny 1400 range. Of course, for this type of money, you’ve got to have a wine cellar, and at the other end of the home, the roof terrace adds an extra 900 square feet of outdoor space.
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LOCATION: 81 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

PRICE: $14.5 million

SIZE: 8,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

The building was purchased by the current owners in 2017 for $7 million, pre-renovation. Before that it exchanged hands for $4.95 million in 2014. Not bad, a $10 million increase in five years.
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LOCATION: 471 State St, Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, NY 11217

PRICE: $6.195 million

SIZE: 4,040 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

Another four-story, single-family home. This has managed to hold on to some of its century-old details, despite the glitz of a stunning renovation.
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LOCATION: 471 State St, Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, NY 11217

PRICE: $6.195 million

SIZE: 4,040 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

The show-stopping parlor floor includes triple fireplaces, etched marble mantles, cast plaster ceiling moldings, original pocket doors, and carved Mahogany door frames, lintels, and shutters.
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LOCATION: 471 State St, Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, NY 11217

PRICE: $6.195 million

SIZE: 4,040 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

With all-new mechanicals and plumbing, and a chef’s kitchen featuring state-of-the-art appliances — and an impressive wine cellar below —this is an urban sanctuary in Downtown Brooklyn.
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LOCATION: 471 State St, Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, NY 11217

PRICE: $6.195 million

SIZE: 4,040 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms

A modest $6 mil, and it’s yours. The home last sold in 2013, pre-renovation, for $2.75 million.
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LOCATION: 280 Washington Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11205

PRICE: $9.995 million

SIZE: 10,000 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms

With a price tag of $10 million for 10,000 square feet, the four-story mega townhome, known as The Pfizer Mansion, first came on the market almost 18 months ago with an ambitious price of $13.5 million. It may still have to whittle a little more from that number before it moves.
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LOCATION: 280 Washington Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11205

PRICE: $9.995 million

SIZE: 10,000 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms

The 1887 Queen Anne style building is one of a pair built by Charles Erhart, a cousin and brother-in-law of Charles Pfizer, co-founder of the family’s chemical company. This home represents high-end brownstone living at its most grandiose with ornate wood and plasterwork throughout.
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LOCATION: 280 Washington Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11205

PRICE: $9.995 million

SIZE: 10,000 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms

In a past life, it was a Catholic girls school. For its current incarnation, the owner, an interior designer, has tastefully brought the home into the modern era with a new kitchen and mechanicals while celebrating its history.
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LOCATION: 280 Washington Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY 11205

PRICE: $9.995 million

SIZE: 10,000 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms

Whether it’s worthy of a $10 million celebration remains to be seen. It previously sold for $3.2 million in 2007.
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LOCATION: 104 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215

PRICE: $8 million

SIZE: 6,900 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

This is a gorgeous limestone with all original details intact, despite a three-year-long renovation, introducing all-new mechanicals.
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LOCATION: 104 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215

PRICE: $8 million

SIZE: 6,900 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

However, the asking price of $8 million seems more about the location — overlooking Prospect Park — rather than the house itself, spectacular though it is.
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LOCATION: 104 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215

PRICE: $8 million

SIZE: 6,900 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

One of the highlights is the expansive new kitchen with dark grey cabinetry, marble counters, and state-of-the-art appliances.
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LOCATION: 158 Halsey Street, Brooklyn New York 11216

PRICE: $3.495 million

SIZE: 4,000 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

A few years ago, it would have been unheard of to list a home in Bed-Stuy for over $3 million, but that now seems to be the norm for these meticulously renovated brownstones.
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LOCATION: 158 Halsey Street, Brooklyn New York 11216

PRICE: $3.495 million

SIZE: 4,000 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

Developers Dahill & Bunce have perfected this kind renovation, matching the classic with the contemporary. New white oak flooring and a modern, open plan kitchen feature Calacatta Paonazzo marble and Thermador appliances.
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LOCATION: 158 Halsey Street, Brooklyn New York 11216

PRICE: $3.495 million

SIZE: 4,000 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

The top floor’s teak clad master suite and bathroom seem more suited to a plush Scandinavian ski resort than the once monikered Do-Or-Die Bed-Stuy. How times change. The house previously sold for $1.1 million pre-renovation.