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Crown Heights townhouse asks $1.85M
BY STEPHEN ZACKS
A renovated three-story single
family row house in Crown
Heights is updated in the paintit
all-light-gray style, with
boldly contrasting charcoal
kitchen cabinets and bathroom
fl oor tiles and crown molding
and other wood all painted
white.
It comes off well enough,
with exposed fi replace bricks
and wood fl oors adding a bit
of warmth. The facade, on the
other hand, has been covered
at some stage with Permastone,
which a buyer might have trouble
restoring to the original
brick.
The layout of 888 Sterling
Place has the dining room
and kitchen on the garden
level, with a patio beyond the
gut renovated open plan space
with a long island in the middle
and a wall of cabinets opposite
the appliances and marble
countertop.
What’s identifi ed as the dining
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room is here set up with a
small informal table, with none
of the details of a grand turnof
the-last-century setting.
This level also has the second
full bathroom, with a glass-enclosed
shower, white-tiled walls
and a slate-colored fl oor.
Upstairs on the parlor level
are a front parlor and living
room, the front room having
an impressive pier mirror, refi
nished with white trim. The
living room looks especially
comfortable, taking up most of
the building width, apart from
the murphy bed on one wall,
bookshelves and cabinets
built on either side of the fi replace
and the powder room.
The fl oors are wide plank in
the front and the living room
has ornate decorative details.
On the third level, of the
four bedrooms in the fl oor plan,
we see images of the two with
brick-exposed fi replaces, and
they look spacious. The bathroom
here has a double sink
with modern stained wood cabinets,
a glass-enclosed bathtub
and large hexagonal gray tiles.
Apart from the Permastone
facade, the facade has an incised
door hood, a three-sided
bay topped with a pediment
and a bracketed cornice, giving
it some street presence.
It looks to have changed
hands a few times since it was
sold by a long-time owner in
2016 for $900,000 and fl ipped
later that year for $1.425 million.
Now it’s asking for $1.85
million in a listing by Justin
Dupree and Abby Dupree at
Compass. How will it fare?
The renovated three-story house is on the market for $1.85 million.
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