No matter your budget, cozy up to NYC’s cutest cottages
Want the charming coziness of a country retreat but can’t quit the urban hustle and bustle?
You don’t have to choose!
From Brooklyn to the Bronx, cottage-style dwellings sit smack-dab in the city.
The most recent (and eye-catching) example is the East Village property that hit the market in July. But never fear, fully-on-the-market options abound.
Set atop a ho-hum structure — and recently listed for $3.5 million — the penthouse/cottage combo has just gone into contract.NY Post Brian ZakEast Village
Price: $3.5 million (in contract); Beds: 4; Baths: 3½; Sq. Ft.: 2,736
New York is chockablock with unique properties, but it’s hard to imagine an apartment more one-of-a-kind than the duplex penthouse of a five-story walkup at 72 E. First St. The penthouse comes with the Nantucket-style shake-shingled cottage on the roof. It’s as if someone airlifted a New England sea shanty and plopped it atop an East Village tenement building. Inside the cottage and penthouse, you’ll find all the comforts of home, including woodburning fireplaces, 18-foot ceilings and a fully renovated marble bathroom. The one downside? It’s in contract. But you can try to make an offer the sellers can’t refuse
Contacts: Nick Gavin and Josh Doyle, Compass, 646-610-3055 and 917-279-4969
Lighthouse Hill
Price: $649,000; Beds: 2; Baths: 2; Sq. Ft.: 1,450
Neuhaus Realty, Inc.“Built for an artist’s light and a poet’s heart,” says the listing for this impossibly quaint Dutch Colonial at 298 Lighthouse Ave. The tri-level home comes with features like oak floors, a fireplace, and “uncut fieldstone walls.” Its location atop Staten Island’s tony Lighthouse Hill neighborhood offers “expansive, unobstructed” views.
Contact: Kathy Feola, Neuhaus Realty, Inc., 347-387-2126
Riverdale
Price: $3.49 million; Beds: 8; Baths: 4; Sq. Ft.: 8,600
Arnold Adler/www.arnoldadler.comThis “secluded wood frame house” is more like something you’d find in the Cotswolds than the Bronx. But here it is in all its rustic splendor — eight bedrooms spread across a main building and a petite adjoining guesthouse along with a formal dining room, living room with a fireplace and a sky-lit music room. Terraces and gardens fill the 0.8-acre lot at 4970 Independence Ave.
Contact: Mary Phelan Kavanagh, Douglas Elliman, 718-884-2200
West Village
Price: $12.75 million; Beds: 5; Baths: 5; Sq. Ft.: 5,000
Kenneth Chen / Evan Joseph ImagesThe five-bedroom townhouse at 121 Washington Place is plenty nice in its own right, but it’s the “incredibly rare English-styled cottage” in the back, separated by a garden, that really intrigues. Built by the owner as a writing studio for the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, it was his home when he completed his book “The Town Down The River.” According to the listing, the cottage has since hosted a number of artists, and comes outfitted today with a sky-lit studio, a fireplace, a sleeping loft and a full bath.
Contact: Leslie Mason, Douglas Elliman, 212-206-2800
Gerritsen Beach
Price: $425,000; Beds: 2; Baths: 1; Sq. Ft.: 1,400
Stephen KunkenA red clapboard house and a white picket fence? What is this, “Leave It To Beaver”? Nope, you’re in Brooklyn. This bucolic Gerritsen Beach hideaway at 101 Abbey Court comes with features like a “super sunny” eat-in kitchen and a private wraparound patio. The bedroom closets include one walk-in, and the roomy upstairs landing could be perfect as a “sleepy reading nook.” If you get the itch to leave these cozy confines, there’s a public park just down the street and the beach is two blocks away.
Contact: Valerie Wright, Dwell Residential Inc, 718-369-7900
Marine Park
Price: $1.25 million; Beds: 5; Baths: 3; Sq. Ft.: 3,312
Katherine BrabynIf fairytale characters ever visited Brooklyn, this Tudor is probably where they’d end up. Clad in brick with a porch and a red door with a decorative metal grate, the house at 1719 E. 33rd St. has high ceilings, crown moldings and a finished basement with a “custom bar.” Plus, the private driveway and garage can fit up to five cars. Talk about a dream come true!
Contact: Dana Goldman, Warburg Realty, 212-327-9613
Douglaston
Price: $1.2 million; Beds: 3; Baths: 2; Sq. Ft.: 1,964
Robert Anthony DeRosaPerks like a woodburning fireplace and a sun room are nothing to sneeze at, but it’s the larger neighborhood that really rounds out this 1929 Tudor’s appeal. Situated in “the heart of beautiful Douglas Manor,” this Queens property at 334 Hollywood Ave. offers easy access to a waterfront with beaches, a dock and a mooring.
Contact: Donna Rubertone, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s, 718-762-2268
Bay Ridge
Price: $9 million; Beds: 6; Baths: 5½; Sq. Ft.: 5,746
Anne Wermiel/NY PostStumbling across this Arts and Crafts gem in the middle of Brooklyn is a dreamy experience. Rest assured: It’s real, and it’s spectacular. Meet the Gingerbread House at 8220 Narrows Ave., which has been on and off the market since 2009. The home — which is stone-covered and absolutely massive in size — comes outfitted with cherry and mahogany flooring, a music conservatory with a giant stone hearth and all manner of handcrafted details, like stained glass and wood carvings. The grounds, fit for Hansel and Gretel, include pocket gardens and a quarter-acre parade green. “What a joyous life you may conjure here!” the listing exhorts. Indeed.
Contacts: Raymond Reis and David Reis, Keller Williams NYC, 917-435-4870
Midwood
Price: $999,000; Bedrooms: 4; Bathrooms: 2½; Square Feet: 1,851
Shlomo Dayan/Freehold Estates Inc.The owner of this four-bedroom home at 1024 E. 26th St. loves its cottage-like feel so much she’s selling it with a covenant that will restrict the new owner from making any modifications to the house’s exterior. The seller, Elizabeth Landers, whose parents owned the Brooklyn house for the last 63 years, said she’s “willing to take a substantial reduced price” in the name of historic preservation. The inside has some features worth preserving as well, including the original crown moldings, parquet floors and a working fireplace.
Contact: Shlomo Dayan, Freehold Estates Inc, 917-628-1252
Little Neck
Price: $958,000; Bed: 4; Bath: 1½; Sq. Ft.: 1,782
Sandeep Shrivastav, LREOne key to having “cottage-appeal” is knowing how to make an entrance. With its brick front stairwell winding up from the street through a planting of thick ivy, this four-bedroom Tudor at 39-34 Glenwood St. has that part covered. The charm offensive continues inside with hardwood floors, a fireplace and lots of natural light. Out back enjoy the patio and shaded lawn.
Contact: Donna Barnes, Laffey Real Estate, 631-682-5665
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