House of the Day: 731 Putnam Avenue
Halstead’s latest is a four-story row house on Putnam near Stuyvesant that has a good amount of original detail and appears to be freshly renovated. It’s set up as an owner’s triplex over a garden rental. There’s stained glass, painted wood work, and at least two original mantels. There is a parlor-floor kitchen and an…
Halstead’s latest is a four-story row house on Putnam near Stuyvesant that has a good amount of original detail and appears to be freshly renovated. It’s set up as an owner’s triplex over a garden rental.
There’s stained glass, painted wood work, and at least two original mantels. There is a parlor-floor kitchen and an abundance of bathrooms (3.5) in the owner’s triplex, one of which features marble tile and a claw foot tub.
It wasn’t a super high end house to start with, and is a hair less than 19 feet wide, but the renovation looks nice. The house last traded for $550,000 in 2013 to an LLC. There’s an open house scheduled for Sunday from 2:30 to 4 pm.
The ask of $1,800,000 strikes us as aggressive, but given the lack of nicely renovated houses on the market, do you think they’ll get it?
731 Putnam Avenue [Halstead] GMAP
Looks like a nice property / renovation for an end user..or, you can get an ‘off-market’ property a block away for hundreds of thousands less ($1.3M) and do renovations as you please!
Right….so it’s Bed Stuy and not Stuy Hts. Even with last year’s expansion of the district lines it is two blocks away from accuracy.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/bedford-stuyvesant-historic-district-triples-in-size/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
It’s a beautiful reno but it is NOT in StuyHts like the listing says. It’s no different when Bushwick brokers say their listings are in Williamsburg just to inflate prices there. Isn’t that considered false advertising? Maybe they’ll start to call our side of Atlantic StuyHts as well – it would certainly benefit us as owners but it’s irresponsible marketing. Wish REBNY would hold brokers accountable for reporting listings accurately.
It is not yet landmarked Stuyvesant Heights but it is Stuyvesant Heights historically. We have many accounts of 120+ year old newspapers and books of Brooklyn and Long Island histories that say that Stuyvesant Heights is bounded by Tompkins (east of Bedford) in the west and reaches Reid Ave in the east. Lafayette in the north and Fulton in the south.
If you ever traveled up Stuyvesant Ave or even Lewis you will notice a summit at Gates Ave. You always have to remember Bed-Stuy is a new 1960’s nick name for Bedford, Stuyvesant Heights, Ocean Hill, The Eastern District (or East Brooklyn) and New Brooklyn. All of these names became merged into Bedford- Stuyvesant by 1930s.
I didn’t realize Stuy Heights was so big. Thanks for the information. If it ever comes time to sell my house, I can now put “Stuy Heights”, that has to be worth at least an extra 50K 🙂
Point proven right here.