Adventures in Ridiculous Architecture
Okay, you gotta check this out. This 12-foot-wide, single-family home at 613 East 89th Street in Canarsie was built mid-boom (2005-2006) and has been flirting with foreclosure for most of this year. (There’s a lien of $321,984 on the place.) Apparently, but not surprisingly, the developer was never able to find a buyer. Wonder why!…
Okay, you gotta check this out. This 12-foot-wide, single-family home at 613 East 89th Street in Canarsie was built mid-boom (2005-2006) and has been flirting with foreclosure for most of this year. (There’s a lien of $321,984 on the place.) Apparently, but not surprisingly, the developer was never able to find a buyer. Wonder why! Click through for the money shot. GMAP
Photo from PropertyShark
To sleep comfortably in this house you have to open the side window and hang your legs out.
Hey don’t knock it, it seems to have two sidewalk cuts!
Um–did they cut the top off the old house and glue it on top? Is this a “gaffe” via Photoshop or could it possibly be real?
If I walk by I expect to see a pendulum swinging back and forth inside the big window and a cuckoo springing out of the top window from time to time.
True, turn of the century narrow houses can have a lot of charm. This place has lost all of its charms though- It looks like a 7 year old who plays with legos put it together.
That does look pretty sad, although the tilted camera angle does not help any.
My eye keeps getting drawn to what I assume is a tiny basement window.
I know some Lilliputians who are interested.
I know some Lutherans who are interested.
$300,000 for a new single-family house? not so bad. low density zoning requires a min. of 8′ between houses. this may have been as wide as possible. besides, there are 12 foot wide brownstones in parkslope and MM recently wrote about 11′ wide rowhouses in clinton hill. aren’t these turn of the century, narrow townhouses considered “charming”?