83 Westminster Rd Brooklyn, NY 11218

Deal Died! Major Price Improvement! Bring All Offers!
Aren't you lucky that this wonderful house is still available for you! This 3-story 1908 Colonial Revival in prestigious Prospect Park South offers an amazing amount of space, and a wealth of ways to utilize it. While City records have it at 3800 + square feet, the enclosed wraparound front porches actually give you more than 4,000 sq. ft. of Living Space, not including the basement. Only about 15% of the homes in Ditmas Park are Legal 2-Family houses, so it's your choice: The entire house can be used as a Single Family right now, or simply close the Double Doors to the Living Room and Kitchen on the first floor, use the separate 1st floor entrance, and you now have an approximately 1700 sq ft 1st floor Apartment with 2+ bedrooms, Living Room, Formal Dining Room, eat-in Kitchen, and full Bath, and a massive Upper Duplex consisting of a Grand 35 ft. long Living/Dining Great Room, eat-in Kitchen, 4 massive bedrooms, and 2 large bathrooms. 12- foot ceilings on the Parlor Floor, 9 ft on the upper floors. Live very large, or live large as a Multi-Generation 2-family, or get phenomenal rental income from one or both units. Laundry set-ups on both the top floor and basement.
On a 55 X 100 lot, lovingly maintained by the same family for 33 years, a perfect blend of original details and marvelous upgrades, the house boasts a Center Hall, huge and gracious rooms, beautiful hardwood floors, high coffered ceilings, pocket doors, and some stained and leaded glass. Pair this with 2 large and gorgeous new eat-in Kitchens with granite counters, stainless steel LG and Kitchenaid appliances, and tons of cherry and mahogany cabinetry. New insulation, Roof, Windows, a stunning new Bathroom with rare-veined granite and 2-person glass shower on the 2nd floor, 2 other large upgraded bathrooms with new sinks and vanities, copper pipe and 220 electrical upgrades wherever work has been done, and closets for days. Enjoy the Fujitsu thru-wall AC units on the 1st and 2nd floors. Add in the huge basement, which has high ceilings and is bone dry and easily finished, and you have quite a house.
Lounge outside on your spacious and serene deck looking out on the beautiful backyard. The house is so quiet, and wonderfully located only 1 block to incomparable Prospect Park, and right by the new "IT" Street, Church Ave., which is exploding with great restaurants and coffee cafes like Hunger Pang, Wheated, Am Thai, and Kettle and Thred, organic markets, and great places for the family like Lark and Honeydewdrop. And don't forget Smorgasberg in the Park! Just 2 blocks away is happening Cortelyou Rd. with even more excellent restaurants and wonderful food shopping, the year round Farmer's Market, and the Flatbush Food Coop. boutiques and playground. The fast B/Q trains are 4 short blocks away, or take the F train a short walk in the other direction. Be in Manhattan in 20 minutes, Park Slope in 5. Buses all around, easy to get everywhere, easy street parking. Take in a World-Class concert at the restored Kings Theatre, work out at the new Crunch Gym or at one of the multitude of great yoga, cycling, and pilates studios, or have a cocktail and solve some music trivia at Bar Chord or Sycamore.
Newly priced at $2,150,000, taxes $7536 annually, don't miss this marvelous opportunity to become a part of this incredible neighborhood. Contact Mary Goodson for a showing.