Step into effortless charm and creativity at 1276 Madison Street, a sun-drenched and thoughtfully laid out two-family townhouse located on a picturesque block in Bushwick. Featuring a dynamic owner's duplex - as the current owner occupies the entire residence - above a garden rental, this home blends playful design with everyday function.
OWNER'S DUPLEX
The parlor level welcomes you with a large open living/dining space that flows seamlessly into a bright, modern kitchen featuring custom millwork, Caesarstone counters, and a retro-inspired Big Chill appliance suite in orange that makes a bold, joyful statement. Tucked away is a powder room and access to the private rear deck, perfect for your morning coffee or evening glass of wine.
Upstairs, find three generously sized bedrooms, including a serene primary suite, as well as a stylishly appointed full bath with a freestanding soaking tub, glass-enclosed rain shower, and oversized format tile. Hardwood floors, central HVAC, and a vented W/D complete the package.
GARDEN APARTMENT
The garden level features a spacious two-bedroom rental with separate entry, perfect for generating income or hosting extended guests. This unit has exposed brick, a spiral staircase which currently connects to the duplex above, and a large open-plan layout with space to lounge, dine, and create.
OUTDOOR SPACES
Enjoy the lush private backyard, a true urban sanctuary with mature plantings, a seating area, and room for garden beds. The elevated deck above offers views and an inviting space for entertaining or relaxing under the sky.
LAYOUT AT A GLANCE
Quick Profile
As one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York, Bushwick offers a perfect snapshot of just how multicultural the city is. Long-established as an amalgam of cultures and ethnicities, a wave of varying types of immigrants trickled in from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, with Bushwick largely becoming a home to Hispanics of Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds by the latter part of the twentieth century.
With the Bushwick Initiative of the mid-00s that aided in revitalization, it became an attractive area to young professionals and artists. And even now, Bushwick has sustained affordable rent prices where other North Brooklyn counterparts, like Williamsburg and Greenpoint, have become more expensive. Priding itself on the weird and the wacky, numerous art collectives thrive in this part of Brooklyn, once famously named the seventh coolest neighborhood in the world by Vogue.
Though it has drawn in many tourists in recent years (there’s even a graffiti tour you can take from the Bushwick Collective), the neighborhood remains very much community-oriented, and has not been subject to quite the same sort of corporate infiltration phenomenon of its nearby Williamsburg environs.
But yes, of course, Bushwick has come a very long way from its 80s and 90s reputation as being “The Well,” a nickname given to it for its free-flowing and widely available amount of drugs (quantity over quality being the cliche applied here).