This old-school railroad apartment on Driggs close to North 7th — the “heart of prime Williamsburg,” as the listing copy accurately touts — has wood floors, high ceilings, and picture rails. The four-story, eight-unit 19th century apartment building at 538 Driggs Avenue once had clapboard siding and a wood cornice with slender brackets, an old tax photo shows.
On the second floor, the walkup comprises four rooms with a flexible layout and two entry doors off the common hallway. Wood floors and picture rails run throughout most of the rooms.
An arched opening leads from one of the entry doors to the front room, originally the parlor. Two windows overlook the street, and picture-frame moldings adorn the walls. A glass-block interior window admits light to the adjacent windowless room, where there is also the only closet in the unit…