Exclusive | Brooklyn Heights eyesore reborn as sprawling mansion and carriage house, asks $20.99M

A 174-year-old Brooklyn Heights mansion that was once deemed a “derelict eyesore” the city partly tore down nearly two decades ago is hitting the market, paired with the carriage house next door, for a combined $20.99 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.The 1852 Greek Revival corner house at 1 Monroe Place, in New York City’s first historic district, is listed at $14.99 million.The three-story carriage house at 94 Clark St.

is asking $6 million. Serhant’s Mallory and Brandon Bogard, a husband-and-wife team, have the listings.Before a buyer moves in, the public gets a look.The mansion is hosting this year’s Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse, the fifth edition of the Brooklyn Heights Association’s biennial fundraiser, which runs through Nov.

1.Nineteen design studios took over the rooms, giving them a playful, sometimes quirky retro spin. Participants include Jess and Jonathan Nahon of Sugarhouse Design & Architecture, Hannah Blumenthal of Studio Olivine, Poonam Khanna of Unionworks and Isy Runsewe of Isy’s Interiors.The seller is developer Margaret Streicker, whose firm paid $1.25 million in cash for the wrecked properties in 2010.“When I acquired 1 Monroe and 94 Clark Street, the properties were vacant and partially demolished,” Streicker tells Gimme Shelter.She described the rebuild as a regulatory puzzle involving landmarks rules, shifting building codes, the pandemic and the buildings’ tangled past. “We unlocked it with a multi-phase, multi-year strategy and rebuilt One Monroe from the ground up, brick by brick,” she said.Streicker, a Republican, is the daughter of the late real estate mogul John H.

Streicker.She ran for Congress in Connecticut in 2020 and lost to longtime Democratic Rep.

Rosa DeLauro.She also redeveloped 86 Bedford St., the former Chumley’s speakeasy in the West Village, now home to Catch Hospitality Group’s hard-to-book steakhouse The Eighty Six.The Monroe Place house had been rotting for years.

In 2008, ...