Stunningly renovated and beautifully decorated, this three-story home features gorgeous reclaimed wide plank wood floors, handcrafted custom hardware, restored stained glass, and three-zone heat and air conditioning. The front garden is a dream in spring, featuring a rare scented Magnolia tree, climbing pink roses, boxwood and wisteria. Entering the parlor floor you will find a beautiful living and separate dining space, brilliantly lit with custom arched windows. A very specially appointed chef's kitchen opens to a gracious brick patio for outdoor barbecuing and dining. The custom kitchen has a white brick backsplash, distressed white oak cabinets, stainless countertops and butcher block center island and bar, a welcoming window seat that overlooks the back garden, plentiful cabinet and pantry space, including lit cabinets to showcase your dining collection! It is equipped with both an 18' and a 24" Bosch dishwasher, a large farm sink with a disposal, a 36"Wolf Range with vented hood, Subzero fridge with glass doors, and a Viking convection /microwave oven. This kitchen was designed by a cook for a cook and must be seen!
A unique staircase with curved ribbons of iron railing and reclaimed wood treads leads to the top floor, with two bedrooms and a full bath with deep Japanese soaking tub and lovely green tiles. The north- facing bedroom has an enormous walk-in closet with California Closet built-ins, while the south-facing bedroom has high vaulted and beamed ceilings, a custom designed wood and copper chandelier and a wood burning fireplace.
The lower level has a separate entrance under the stoop, an entry mud room and closet, dedicated storage space and laundry and a spacious den with elegant Brooklyn-built Atlas bookshelves and media center, and second full bath with a rain shower head.
This Crown Heights jewel box is a one of a kind home that you are guaranteed to cherish! Pets allowed on a case by case basis.
Quick Profile
Originally known as Crown Hill by the Lenape Indians that lived there, Crown Heights has evolved into a diverse neighborhood, occupied primarily by Hasidic Jews and one of the largest Caribbean populations to be found anywhere outside of the West Indies.
Head over to Nostrand Avenue, one of the main West Indian commercial areas in the neighborhood, which is lined with stores that have been in those exact same places for generations, providing their goods and services to area residents. Kingston Avenue has similar commercial activities that support the Jewish community, and Franklin Avenue shows the most signs of change and gentrification, with an ever-expanding mix of yoga studios, coffee shops, and organic grocery stores that serve the influx of young professionals. No matter which of these areas you visit, you will find an interesting mix of businesses that you wouldn’t normally picture as existing side-by-side. It is all part of the cultural diversity of Crown Heights.
The neighborhood is bisected, from east to west, by Eastern Parkway, which is a beautiful, 3-mile-long boulevard lined with mature trees. This leafy oasis was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, famed designer of Central Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, and the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C.
You will find a mix of low-rise apartment buildings, large middle-class elevator buildings, brownstones, and some luxury buildings. Century-old architecture stands next to modern residential developments in a visually interesting mix of styles, much as the diversity of the residents exists. People who would not normally meet and mix are forging new pathways to cultural understanding by working, living, and playing together in the same neighborhood.