You're not buying a house.
You're buying a block.
Stoop & Lintel is a five-person brokerage that has spent fifteen autumns matching families to Brooklyn townhouses — and to the maples, the neighbors, and the Saturday stoop coffee that come with them.
Berkeley Place, 8:40 a.m. — the school run just ended and the block goes quiet until the leaf blowers argue at noon.
Every listing on this page was walked by one of us — at morning drop-off, at dusk, and once in the rain. We check the boiler before we praise the mantels, and we will tell you when a block isn't yours, even when the house is beautiful.
Walk the block.
Keep scrolling — the street moves with you
No. 114 Berkeley Place
Park Slope
4 bd20 ft wide$4.35M
Original parlor shutters; the maple out front turns first on the block.
No. 87 St. Marks Avenue
Prospect Heights
3 bd + rental18 ft wide$3.60M
Garden-floor rental covers a chunk of the mortgage. Tenant bakes.
No. 58 Lincoln Place
Park Slope
6 bd24 ft wide$6.10M
Bow-front parlor holds the afternoon light until dinner.
No. 419 Greene Avenue
Clinton Hill
4 bd19 ft wide$3.15M
Round attic window; kids call it the porthole house.
No. 231 Decatur Street
Bed-Stuy
4 bd20 ft wide$2.35M
Needs a kitchen; keeps seven mantels. Fair trade.
No. 342 Hancock Street
Bed-Stuy
5 bd22 ft wide$2.89M
Mahogany pier mirror in the hall — it stays with the house.
Twelve-foot ceilings make slow Sundays.
The parlor floor is why people put up with four flights of stairs. Plaster medallions where the gaslight used to hang, herringbone oak that creaks in the same three places for a century, and south light that crosses the room like a slow tide from breakfast to dusk.
When we show a parlor, we show it at 4 p.m. — that's when you'll actually live in it. If the crown molding is original we say so. If it's 1987 polyurethane, we say that too.
"We measured the light before we measured the rooms. Stoop & Lintel told us to." — the Okafors, No. 114
Forty feet of garden buys a lot of summer.
Behind every brownstone lot is a rectangle of Brooklyn sky. Bluestone pavers, an ivy wall you didn't plant and couldn't stop if you tried, and enough room for a table of eight under string lights.
Garden season here runs longer than you'd guess — dinner outside from the first week of May to the last warm Friday of October. We list garden depth on every plaque because it's the number families forget to ask about, and the one they thank us for later.
Where your money lands, block by block.
Medians from our own closings over the last four seasons — not borough-wide averages that blend in condos. Widths matter more than square feet: a 20-footer fits a hallway and a dining room.
| Neighborhood | Median townhouse | Typical width | Know it by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Slope | $4.20M | 18–24 ft | Double maples, stroller traffic on Seventh, the 3rd Street playground queue. |
| Bed-Stuy | $2.60M | 18–22 ft | The best intact Victorian rows in the city; mantels nobody ever ripped out. |
| Clinton Hill | $3.10M | 19–22 ft | Clergy-row mansions, Pratt students sketching them, quiet by nine. |
| Prospect Heights | $3.40M | 16–20 ft | Narrower lots, shorter walks — Museum, Garden and Park in ten minutes flat. |
| Crown Heights | $2.20M | 18–20 ft | Limestone rows with loggias; the value play our buyers brag about at dinner. |
How we buy a house together.
A townhouse purchase runs about one season, stoop to keys. This is the order it actually happens in — no step gets skipped, including the unglamorous one.
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Week 1 · Saturday
The walk
Three houses, one morning, coffee from the bagel shop. You'll know within a block which streets feel like yours. That instinct is data — we take notes.
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Weeks 2–4
The homework
We underwrite the boiler, the roof, the party wall and the certificate of occupancy — not just the comps. If a house needs $300K of work, you'll hear it from us first.
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Week 5
The bid
One letter, one number, no games. Sellers on these blocks talk to each other; our reputation for clean offers is why ours get picked at a tie.
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Weeks 6–14
The keys
Contract to closing, we sit every call. You leave with keys, a flushing schedule for the radiators, and the names of three plumbers who actually call back.
Knock. We're the door with the brass lion.
Walks leave every Saturday at 10 a.m., rain or shine, from 89 Seventh Avenue. Three houses, ninety minutes, zero obligation — and we'll tell you which of the three we wouldn't buy.
Reserve this SaturdayTwelve families a season. Autumn 2026 has four spots left.