When it comes to curb cutting—and now price cutting—the owner of 174 Clinton Avenue doesn’t mess around. Taking advantage of the 100-foot commercial overlay from nearby Myrtle Avenue and the fact that the house falls just outside the Clinton Hill Historic District, the owner (who’s also developing the lot behind this house) was able to get permits to butcher convert the front of the ground floor of the historic brownstone into a garage and to cut the curb for a driveway entrance. The theory was that the addition of the parking space would enhance the value on resale, we presume. Well, it couldn’t have helped that much: The asking price was axed last week from $2,500,000 to $1,990,000. Karma?
174 Clinton Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Cut and Run at 174 Clinton Avenue [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 175 Vanderbilt Avenue [Brownstoner]

November 2007