374 Pacific Sells at Auction
Last week the New York City Sheriff’s Office held a public auction for the long-neglected brownstone at 374 Pacific Street. The winner, we gather, was a Queens-based developer called Forest Park Properties, who paid $1,335,000 for the five-story building. A voicemail message left at the company’s office was not returned so we don’t know that…
Last week the New York City Sheriff’s Office held a public auction for the long-neglected brownstone at 374 Pacific Street. The winner, we gather, was a Queens-based developer called Forest Park Properties, who paid $1,335,000 for the five-story building. A voicemail message left at the company’s office was not returned so we don’t know that its plans are. According to a tipster, the developer is the same one who rebuilt the old shells at 161-169 Dean Street adjacent to the Mugavero Center.
374 Pacific Street Coming Up For Auction [Brownstoner] GMAP
pigeon, don’t be a chicken.
-it’s bad enough you’re a rat with wings.
“I’d be very afraid of beginning a renovation and somehow having the whole pile of bricks come down, along with my neighbors’ houses. And faster than you can say Annie Leibovitz, you’re broke.”
By Ringo on March 17, 2010 11:10 AM
Good luck to the buyer!
(And I mean that sincerely).
Brooklyn Chicken- Interested in talking to “homeowners” who successfully sued to collect damages and were actually able to collect…. Have any info? Could email me directly.
from the archives of the Brooklyn Eagle:
No. 374 is a unique example of Gothic Revival architecture built circa 1853. The unusual recessed doorway is enframed by slender colonnettes, while the double doors have Gothic ogee arches in the upper panels. the transom bar is embellished by Tudor roses, and the lintels above the doorway and windows all recall Gothic drip moldings. At the parlor floor is a bronze balcony of graceful curvilinear design, with dragon-heads at the corners.
(ASIDE – the latter is my favorite detail; you swear that juliette balcony was lifted straight out of N’orleans)
21 picture slideshow of the building as it looks today:
http://bk.ly/smk
Sycamores do tend to shed bark and the fruits that they drop but I don’t find mine all that much of a problem.
OTOH, I had my catalpa in the yard cut down it was such a problem with the pods. The pods drop and you have a 12″ plant coming up in as few as 3-4 days….all throughout the garden
374 Pacific Street was owned and neglected for many years by a crazy guy. The building deteriorated to the point that it began leaking into its neighbors, damaging their properties. The neighbors successfully sued the owner, and the house was sold at sherrif’s auction to pay off the lawsuit. Thank you, neighbors of 374!
That bit of the block where 374 stands is indeed landmarked. So, the new owner will need to preserve the facade while replacing the entire interior. I’m no developer, but I suspect a high-quality build-out will cost more than $1 million. 25′ wide. 5 stories, which I think are extra tall.
Best wishes to the new owner and future residents of an inhabitable 374.
the problem with sycamores and London Planes is that they are messy trees. peeling bark everywhere and they drop leaves all summer long. They are however somehow tolerant of urban street conditions.
Actually only the south side of the block from Bond to the old church is landmarked (including this house) — the rest of the south side in the new build for the Mugavero home and its parking.
The north side is a nice block of traditional facades except for basically directly across the street — which are a converted 3-story stables of some type and a (to my eye) lovely modern building.
quick Google says The hybrid London Plane has proved particularly tolerant of urban conditions; its a cousin of the Sycamore (whatever that mens), adapts very well to urban living, and the “improved” sycamore is New York City’s tallest street tree.