Here’s an unusual listing for Victorian Flatbush. The house at 1216 Albemarle Road in the micro-nabe known as Prospect Park South has been sitting empty for over a year but its checkered past goes back much further. The original Victorian house was torn down (a fire maybe?) prior to 1965. The land was then divided into three lots and three architecturallly similar shoe-box type homes were contructed. This house is built on the foundation of one of these houses. For some strange reason, Landmarks insisted that the current design incorporate the brick work and first floor window from the 1965 houses into the new design, so what exists there now has been framed out around that 1965 window. We’re not sure whether the current owner ran out of money or just got tired of the project after investing so much time and energy negotiating with Landmarks, but the construction is very much mid-stream, with not much more than some walls, some windows, some electrical and a brand new furnace. It just hit the market yesterday but we’ve already gotten emails from readers about it, a couple of whom contributed the photos below; evidently no one in the neighborhood is particularly happy about how this place is turning out. Even if it were beautiful, the asking price of $1,900,000 implies an absurd multiple of $1,000 per buildable square foot! Egads. Is there any chance in hell of getting this price?
1216 Albemarle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark