Bed Stuy Two-Bedroom With Mantels Asks $3,350 a Month

A top-floor rental in Bed Stuy occupies a 1890s row house built as two-family dwellings. The unit includes ornate details such as wood floors and picture rails, plus an updated windowed kitchen with a dishwasher. A living room faces the street, while the kitchen sits at the rear. A generously sized skylit middle room can serve as a dining room or office. A narrow bedroom connects off the living room, and a larger bedroom sits adjacent to the kitchen. The living room has a distinctive mantel with a built-in desk and a long oval beveled mirror. The larger bedroom includes another mantel with an oval mirror and original tile work. Laundry uses stacked units in the hallway outside the unit.

"In Bed Stuy, this top floor rental in an 1890s row house has a few ornate details, including a quirky mantel with a built-in desk. The unit, one of three at 494 Hancock Street, also has another mantel, wood floors, picture rails, an updated kitchen, and laundry. The 18.75-foot-wide dwelling is one of four originally constructed as two-family dwellings."

"There's a generously sized, skylit middle room that could work as a dining room or office. A narrow bedroom is off the living room while the larger bedroom is adjacent to the kitchen. The flashy mantel is in the living room - it looks the same as when this property was featured as a House of the Day in 2014. A long oval mirror with beveled edges stretches above the swag-ornamented mantel and the built-in desk adjoining it."

"The windowed kitchen has a fair amount of counter space. The appliances include a dishwasher. In the larger bedroom there's another mantel with an oval mirror and original tile work. The room also has two windows and picture rails. As for laundry, there are stacked units in the hallway outside the unit."

"Plans for the two-story houses plus basement were filed in the fall of 1897 with owner Walter F. Clayton working with architect Axel Hedman. Clayton was a builder and advertised the row as his "model 1898 design" and in 1898 as having "carved stone fronts." The circa 1940 tax photo shows decorative flourishes on those exteriors, including swags, wreaths, and shields, in better detail."

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