Park Slope Open House Picks

In the market for a new home? We’ve picked some of the most promising options that are having open houses this weekend, in a range of prices. How do you think they look?

226 6th Avenue, between President & Carroll Sts
Open House: Saturday, October 20, 12-2pm & Sunday, October 21, 12-2:30pm
Listed by Prudential Doulas Elliman for $2,649,000, this is a four-story, two-family stunner with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms that has all the things we’ve come to expect from a brownstone: original details including carved (but all non-working? not sure) fire places, large windows and a nice patio in the back. You can turn the top floor apartment easily into part of the whole house to make it a one-family, and you’ll have a great view from up there of the garden of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church across the street. Anyone live nearby that can comment on the noise, good or bad, from the church?

344 6th Avenue #1, between 4th & 5th Sts
Open House: Sunday, October 21, 3-5pm
A few blocks south of the brownstone listed above, this 3-bed, 2-bath duplex co-op (pictured above) is less than half the price, listed at $1,175,000 by Brown Harris Stevens. But, you’ve got to listen to your neighbors walk around upstairs, you can’t have dogs, and you’ve got to pay a $813 maintenance fee. But you’d have a lovely garden, and under the proposed public school district changes, you’d still be zoned for the desirable PS 321.

37 7th Avenue #4, at St. John’s Pl
Open House: Sunday, October 21, 1:30-3pm
Here’s another space right across from a church – make that two churches – but this is a 2-bed, 1-bath co-op that’s on the corner, so it gets a lot of light, and you’ve got two steeples to gaze at. You’re very close to the subway, but that means you’re also very close to a lot of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian. And it shouldn’t be enough to keep you from buying an apartment, but those couple blocks of 7th Avenue have several ginko trees that drop their stinky fruit in the fall. Maybe you can’t smell it from the third floor. Listed by Warren Lewis Sothebys for $665,000, maintenance $900.

220 Berkeley Place #1A, between 7th & 8th Aves
Open House: Sunday, October 21, 2-3:30pm
With close proximity to the park, shopping, and public transportation, this 500-square-foot studio apartment is ideal for someone who wants all the best stuff Park Slope has to offer, but doesn’t need much space. One word of warning from someone who’s dealt with it: living in apartment 1A can by trying, as that’s the first buzzer rung by delivery men, scammers, people looking for the super, and drunks who forgot their keys. Corcoran is listing it for $320,000, maintenance $521.