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Flatbush Real Estate: 4-Bed Brick Home With Finished Basement For $1.5M

Take a look inside this week's featured real estate listing.

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — This week's featured real estate listing is a beautiful, four-bedroom brick home in Flatbush (don't let the listing fool you) with a finished basement, double foyer and a double parlor for $1.5 million.

See more photos of the home here, and read the full listing below:

  • Address: 14 Martense Ct, Brooklyn, New York
  • Price: $1,499,000
  • Square Feet:
  • Bedrooms: 4
  • Bathrooms: 3 Baths
  • Built: 1930
  • Features: Live in a Prospect Lefferts area brick beauty on a quiet historic cul de sac! One of the largest single family homes on noted Martense Court can be yours! This home boasts 4 plus bedrooms 2.5 baths a new modern kitchen plus a private entrance to a finished English basement with large gym a windowed home office and a laundry room. Enjoy a gracious double foyer with period arts and crafts staircase a double parlor illuminated by 3 tall windows original columned fireplace mantel gleaming parquet floors Ionic columns and French doors. Your large dining room also has all the original details coffered ceilings craftsman chair rails and a large stained glass window. Great new kitchen has multiple windows and leads to a big pantry and a covered porch. The backyard is huge and sunny with a black bamboo privacy hedge to north. Front of house has a patio to enjoy quiet evenings overlooking this charming pocket street and the rear grounds of the historic Art Deco Linden St Library or just gardening in the evening light. Sunny quiet and perfectly located near Prospect Park with the new LeFrak Skating Center and the Parade Grounds. Close to multiple subways B/Q or 2/5 . Nearby shops are Greenlight Books Play Kids and Record City. Enjoy restaurants such as Midwood Flats Burger Mexicana Errol's Caribbean Bakery or nightlife at Parkside for cocktails and jazz . Just a short distance south to concerts at the palatially restored Art Deco Kings Theater or go west to Prospect Park south area of Ditmas Park for another restaurant scene. Built on the former Prince Estate in 1915 by architects Cantor and Dorfman these Colonial Arts and Crafts brick buildings boast Flemish rooflines and were first occupied by members of the ' Social Register '. Row of historic houses was featured by Brownstoner as 'Buildings of the Day ' in 2014. Come claim this piece of Brooklyn History for your new home !

This listing originally appeared on realtor.com. For more information and photos, click here.

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