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When the listing for the Park Slope home of literary couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss went up in November, the one interior photo showed the breakfast room conservatory with Tiffany stained glass windows. Any photos you may have seen of the living room or other areas were from the previous sellers’ listing and reflected their taste. Now Sotheby’s has added views of the living room, kitchen, and bedroom.

Foer and Krauss have replaced the previous owners’ gilding and statues with more tailored mid-century and modern furniture. The expansive kitchen appears to be unchanged. As previously noted, the 7,670-square-foot house sits on a double lot that goes through to the next block and has parking.

Click through to the jump for more. What do you think? Is the $14,500,000 price tag — one of the highest in Brooklyn — realistic?

646 2nd Street Listing [Sotheby’s]
Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss Offer Their Park Slope House for $14.5 Million [Brownstoner]
Photos by Sotheby’s

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What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. It’s actually bigger than a double lot, right? The garden alone is a double lot at 40X100. The house is on a 20X100 lot. So it’s really a triple lot. Price tag reflects the possibility of building another house, or even two, on prime Brooklyn real estate. As the sotheby’s listing implies, it may be possible to build a 40 foot wide, brand new single family house on the lot, which would be unique to say the least. I’m guessing the seller would need a variance to do that, but we are talking about Carlos Slim-level wealth anyway.
    The question is, what is the total buildable square footage, including this house, and is it priced fairly for that?

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