1.5br, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, $2,500

Lovely one-bedroom-plus-den floor thru apartment in classic Carroll Gardens post-Civil War brownstone on front-garden block. One flight up (floor above parlor floor). Large rooms, high ceilings, original fireplace (now decorative), hardwood floors, tin ceilings. On one of the loveliest front-garden blocks in Carroll Gardens, with F- and G- trains on the corner (Carroll Street station). Steps from beautiful Carroll Gardens Park, shops, dining of Smith Street. 4 train stops from Manhattan, 20 minute walk to BAM, Atlantic Terminal, Barclay Center (new home of Brooklyn Nets). No dogs and no smokers, please.