Pratt must be kicking itself now. Last June, the art college sold off a property that runs through the block from Washington to Hall between Willoughby and DeKalb in Clinton Hill with both a mansion and a carriage house for the seemingly low price of $3,000,000. (They also sold the adjacent empty lot next door to the same investor for $3,850,000.) Now the buyer is cutting the parcel into two, and trying to sell off the mansion for $3,500,000 (listing here) and the carriage house, above, for $2,600,000. That’ll be a nice half-year’s work if he can pull it off. As for the carriage house, it’s a 40-foot-wide two-family house currently has a pretty non-descript interior. (One-half of the carriage house appeared as the subject of a recent Sketch Pad feature in the NY Times.) Since the asking price for the 3,200-square-foot structure is about $800 a foot and it’s gonna need work, clearly this is being marketed to someone who wants to take advantage of the more than 3,000 square feet of air rights that come with the property. (The NYT story proposed a three-story addition.) Think someone’ll step up?
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