"Manhattan Beach is a teensy, moneyed nub of Brooklyn past Brighton Beach where 1920s Tudors and 1990s starter castles sit shoulder to shoulder on wide, suburban-style streets. Here, 4147 Ocean Avenue stands out. It's a blocky, Brutalist-inspired home with a pale-gray façade of zinc panels that frame a square picture window placed off to one side as if winking at the stodgy homes across the street."
"Maybe it's shocking to some to pay Park Slope brownstone prices for a place way out past Coney Island, but that's the going rate here. "Demand is high, inventory is scarce, so that keeps the prices high," broker Mark Martov told Brick Underground in 2023, calling the peninsula a perpetual "seller's market." There are two homes for sale nearby that are asking $4.5 million and $10.9 million, and one house on the block sold last month for $3.65 million."
Manhattan Beach is a small, affluent Brooklyn neighborhood with a mix of historic Tudors and newer castle-like homes on wide, suburban-style streets. 4147 Ocean Avenue is a blocky, Brutalist-inspired single-family house with a pale-gray façade of zinc panels and an off-center square picture window. The exterior was designed by WXY, a firm known for large public projects including playgrounds, parks, and public bathrooms. The house has been listed intermittently for eight years, enduring multiple brokerages and two price cuts from $4.95 million in 2017 to $3.68 million today. Local comparable listings and recent sales show multi-million-dollar valuations, and the original owner bought the lot in 2008 for $1.5 million before demolishing a brick ranch and building a roughly 4,000-square-foot home. Despite the architectural pedigree and distinctive design, the property has proven difficult to sell in a high-price, low-inventory market.
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