481 Madison Street

A two-family rowhouse of roughly 4,050 square feet — twelve rooms, six bedrooms, four-plus baths. Records date the house to 1899, the tail end of the building boom that filled out these blocks between 1870 and 1900.

Madison Street falls within the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, designated in 1971, where the speculative rows still read as a continuous streetwall of late-century masonry. A house this wide rarely stays a two-family for long; the next owner inherits the proportions of the original plan, and the quiet that comes from a block the city decided to keep intact.

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