House of the Day: 369 6th Street
This new listing at 369 6th Street isn’t the biggest or most ornate house in Park Slope but it sure is cute as a button. The three-story brick is a legal two-family but has been configured as a one-family. The moldings and woodwork are impressive and the place clearly has had a tasteful renovation at…
This new listing at 369 6th Street isn’t the biggest or most ornate house in Park Slope but it sure is cute as a button. The three-story brick is a legal two-family but has been configured as a one-family. The moldings and woodwork are impressive and the place clearly has had a tasteful renovation at some point recently. So the question is not whether this place will catch the eye of buyers but what they will make of the $1,749,000 asking price. Thoughts?
369 6th Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Bring your checkbooks, Open House on Sunday.
They just dropped the price 100K folks!
They just dropped the price 100K folks!
This is a fantastic corner of the neighborhood – 5th Ave near this block ROCKS!
This house should & will definitely go for ABOVE ask – You heard it here, folks!
Fawn — a few houses down, house with exact same dimensions, 382 6th Street, was asking 100k MORE than this one, went into contract in less than a month. That’s the market right now for people wanting to live in Park Slope. This will go, and fast.
I went to the open house last weekend and have also seen other places listed around this price point. The foot different in width between this and 395 7th does make a difference– this feels narrower and smaller– some of the hallways feel airline-width. They’ve made some good design choices and some I think don’t help. The wall between kitchen and dining room makes both feel small (the kitchen is Manhattan-apartment small). The built-ins in the bedroom provide much needed storage but I think make the narrow room feel claustrophobic. Unless you were extremely careful with furniture size, clutter, and the size of your children (fewer and smaller the better) it wouldn’t take much to feel like the walls are closing in around you. I love the neighborhood but left here feeling very down about what $1.7 can buy you. (I didn’t have this feeling leaving 395 7th and others.)
Beautiful tree-lined, brownstone block in a great Park Slope location (center slope, convenient to both 7th Ave and 5th Ave, 3 blocks to Park). Narrow, yes, but should get close to ask given the very desirable location.
“By daveinbedstuy on April 6, 2011 3:01 PM
You’re all also missing another issue that I harp on. All it takes is one out of maybe a few tens of thousands of people who bought a one bedrooom ( not even a two bedroom) condo in manhattan in the late 90s/early 00s who have a $400-600k gain to be able to easily afford this place, on FAR less than a $300,000 salary.”
WELL SAID! I was fortunate enough to have that experience.
“By BoerumHillScott on April 6, 2011 3:44 PM
Sorry, but anyone “scraping by” with a $200k+ salary is a complete idiot when it comes to financial management and basic self control, assuming they are not paying back money for some terrible medical issue or other disaster.”
ALSO WELL SAID!
Most Americans have not traveled and/or experienced different facets of life enough to realize how AMAZING they have it. Everything is relative. The fact that there’s a debate going on Brownstoner on if folks making $300,000 per year are rich or not is outright bananas. Also, the sense of entitlement everyone has but does not appreciate (a good school, car, nanny service, good food, trips, whateverfloatsyourboat) is so ingrained in our mindset that everything feels *expected* rather then appreciated.
House is nice, but at this width, all of the rooms need to be opened up more to the hall/stair space, so as not to seem so narrow, which they do at 9 or 10+ feet wide. I’m all for keeping woodwork, but in a house this narrow, you need to add width to those rooms.
Especially that kitchen to dining room pass through – needs to be totally removed. That shelf pass-though in a woodworked doorway just looks stupid.
But no one here cares about the house. Everybody just wants to complain about how much it costs to be middle class in NYC. Just accept it and deal with it. If you want to live in the city, make your compromises – in amount of space, neighborhood, length of commute, renting v. owning, job you do, hours you work, etc., and stop complaining. If you want to live in NYC and can do so, you should be happy. If you choose to live in the suburbs or elsewhere for more real estate for the money, be happy with that choice, too. Yes, there will always be people with more money – but that’s true anywhere.