515 E 3rd Street

Simply stunning, this mint condition, fully renovated single family home stands out from the rest. It has a combination of beautiful renovations and restorations to ensure you live in comfort, with style and efficiency. This lovely detached home, with a private driveway that easily fits two cars, with 4+ bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a full basement on a 30' x 100' lot will charm you. Walk through the landscaped front yard, up the steps to a vestibule that leads into the home and onto the front porch. A proper foyer greets you inside and you'll find a lovely restored banister and stained glass window. The living room and dining room are each beautifully appointed and spacious. The living room has bay windows, and a gas Heat and Glo fireplace. The formal dining room is flanked by gorgeous stained glass windows, and has two closets. This is a home ready for entertaining. The sun-drenched windowed eat-in-kitchen is a dream come true, with a farmhouse style sink, a Grohe Bridgeford sink faucet, a restored Vintage Chambers BZ stove, GE refrigerator and dishwasher, plentiful mission style cabinets and caesarstone counters. The kitchen expands into a beautiful sunroom, with room for a large table and a sitting area, with a wall of windows and glass doors leading into your extra large backyard - 30' wide, by more than 35' deep. A sweet powder room completes this level. The primary bedroom suite is spacious with an adjoining sitting room/dressing room with multiple closets, including an Elfa storage system. It has two exposures and light fills the space. There is another expansive bedroom on this level, currently used as a tv/music room. The full bath on this level has a white pedestal sink and subway tile, and the fixtures in this bathroom and top floor bath are high end, Rohl, Country Brass Collection luxury fixtures, handcrafted in Italy. There is another stained glass window on this level. The top floor has two large bedrooms with skylights, expanded storage cabinets and closets. The bath on this floor is decadent, with an elegant, oversized freestanding bathtub, and wainscotting. Additional features include: -Hardi Plank siding, one of the first things you notice as you approach the house, installed in 2021. -Central heating and cooling with a smart thermostat, app controlled, installed in 2017. Central a/c has two zones. -There are solar panels, fully paid for and installed in 2021, that offsets all electric usage, only pay the Basic Service charge. -The front yard and back yards are fully landscaped, with an automatic irrigation setup in the planting beds. -Designer lighting fixtures throughout -Ring doorbell/camera at front entrace, with ring camera at side entrance as well, app controlled. -Storage is abundant throughout. -The full height basement has a poured concrete floor. A washer/dryer and original soapstone deep utility sink is on this level, along with utilities. -Plumbing and electric are new. Replaced in 2016. Located in Kensington, near all. It's just 3 blocks to the F/G trains at Church Ave, and all the amenities on the Church Ave retail corridor. It's a short walk to Cortelyou Road, and all its cafes, restaurants and bars. It's near Prospect Park too. Come take a look - you'll want to make this home yours.