The discreet charm of south Bushwick

Eye On Real Estate

July 27, 2016 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Welcome to south Bushwick, where industrial buildings are intermingled with quaint rowhouses such as the ones seen here on Cooper Street. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

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The south end of Bushwick has many sights that delight the Eye.

It has a more low-key feel than the other end of the neighborhood, which we also love though it’s chock-full of hipsters and plagued by purveyors of tainted K2 synthetic marijuana.

South Bushwick, which is bordered by Ridgewood, Queens and a pair of cemeteries, has blocks of grim-exteriored warehouses with interesting things going on inside.

On other blocks from Weirfield Street southwards, old-fashioned rowhouses exude discreet charm.

When we went walking in the area recently, the big sky stretching above the quaint, low-rise homes on Cooper Street between Central and Evergreen avenues made us think of frontier towns of yesteryear.

We were charmed by the Halsey Street block between Wilson and Central avenues, where the decorative trim on the pale-hued brick rowhouses has been painted lime green and other eye-catching colors.

A stately Catholic Church, St. Martin of Tours, caught our eye. This a fine piece of ecclesiastical architecture on Weirfield Street across from Irving Square Park.

Another religious building, the Pilgrim Church Annex, stopped us in our tracks because there are rows of red streetlamps out front along Central Avenue and Schaefer Street. Each lamppost is topped by four winged dragons.

Routine Bushwick, a vegetarian farm-to-table café at 631 Wilson Ave., was a great spot to have cookies and tea during a sudden rain storm.

Angela’s Bakery at 717 Knickerbocker Ave. was a great spot to eat strawberry-glazed cake when blazing summer heat became overwhelming.

A Wilson Avenue rowhouse sold for $1.6 Million

Here and there, we noticed rowhouses that were being renovated or enlarged.

The owner of 326 Eldert St. is reconfiguring the interior of the handsome gold-hued rowhouse to include a one-car garage. Won’t car-owning neighbors be jealous?

The Eldert Street property belongs to Edward Jacobs. He and Chen Jiang bought it for $499,000 in 2011, city Finance Department records indicate. In 2013, Jacobs became its sole owner by paying Jiang $105,000, the records show.

“For Rent” signage hanging on 637 Wilson Ave. prompted us to check Finance Department records. They show that an LLC with Yoav Adereth as managing member bought the building for $1.6 million in March.

By the way, listing broker Ideal Properties Group’s website has a posting for a three-bedroom apartment in this building at an asking rent of $2,492 per month.