748 Union Street

748 Union Street sits between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, two doors from the Sixth Avenue corner, 18 feet wide and four stories tall, in a run of brownstone fronts at the Union Street edge of what the Park Slope Civic Council calls Center Slope, the more than 1,500 buildings from Union Street down to 7th Street that a former executive director of the Landmarks Preservation Commission called Park Slope's most cohesive and architecturally strongest blocks. The city's tax record gives the house a build year of 1915, but the stoop, the cornice and the brownstone front read in the manner of the row it stands in, whose neighbors the same record dates to 1899.

Since 1995 the house has held Spoke the Hub, the dance and community arts studio Elise Long opened here, first with classes on the parlor floor. Between 2007 and 2009 the basement and ground floor were rebuilt as a two-story facility, the Re:Creation Center, a main performance room on the ground floor and a second studio below it, and the city's record of a 2009 alteration matches. The listing describes the space as commercial and garden-level, and it is what the listing means by a place to live and work.

The residential floors above hold two residences, five bedrooms and four and a half baths in all, with a private terrace, a deck and a roof deck. The photographs show a home decorated over a long tenure rather than staged for sale: a stone hearth beside built-in shelves, mosaic tile set into the kitchen counters and a shower, a mural painted overhead, and a wood-paneled stair that climbs to a door onto a deck. Another set of rooms is finished plainer, in white, with a long table and French doors. The same owner has held the house for many years.

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