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August 12, 2005

Open House Picks

houseCobble Hill
489 Henry Street
Brownstone RE
Sunday 1-3pm
$1,999,000
GMAP


houseCrown Heights
1244 President Street
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2pm
$925,000
GMAP


houseCarroll Gardens
148 West 9th Street
Realty Collective
Sunday 11am-1pm
$890,000
GMAP


houseBedford Stuyvesant
952 Putnam Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3pm
$599,000
GMAP




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:32 AM | Comments (13)
Categories: Open Houses

Comments

Are there even houses for sale in Park Slope anymore? The pickings have seemed very meager recently.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 11:46 AM

489 Henry is one house in from the corner of Degraw. Diagonally across the street is Metfood and all of their delivery trucks. Behind that property is the Strong Place Baptist church which is slowly wasting away.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 11:47 AM

Mr. Brownstoner, this is a bit off topic, but this is funny I think:

http://www.marykayg.com/html/0408.html

"Needs TLC...........a must see if you appreciate details and quality

We have the key.....Call for private appointment.
You must be prepared to bring it to the $2 Million mark!

If you want a home in PPS with Extraordinary Details... you must move FAST - offers already coming in - Call us today for more information!"

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 12:08 PM

Nooooooo....that can't be fore real, can it?

Posted by: ana at August 12, 2005 12:18 PM

Hmm...seems a little strange

Posted by: Brownstoner at August 12, 2005 12:22 PM

Check archive- May 9- for comments on the Henry St. house.
Significant price reduction since then. (was 2.2).

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 12:28 PM

The house on 9th st, listed in Carroll Gardens: feel sorry for the owner (now a rental building) who may have owned it forever and obviously is looking to get out: he/she probably didn't expect to be in the ninth center of hell: the intersection of Hamilton Parkway and (overhead) the BQE. Garbage on street, noise overwhelming, high speed traffic constant, gas station across the street, breathing is difficult because of the polluted air, and the "parking in back" is a high wire-fenced space that has to be accessed from Hamilton (lord knows exactly how) and is virtually the "yard" of the house. Better that it was torn down and used as a pen for attacking pit bulls.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 1:04 PM

The house on 9th st, listed in Carroll Gardens: feel sorry for the owner (now a rental building) who may have owned it forever and obviously is looking to get out: he/she probably didn't expect to be in the ninth center of hell: the intersection of Hamilton Parkway and (overhead) the BQE. Garbage on street, noise overwhelming, high speed traffic constant, gas station across the street, breathing is difficult because of the polluted air, and the "parking in back" is a high wire-fenced space that has to be accessed from Hamilton (lord knows exactly how) and is virtually the "yard" of the house. Better that it was torn down and used as a pen for attacking pit bulls.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 1:06 PM

The Mary Kay G. thing is real ...

Posted by: Anonymous at August 12, 2005 3:05 PM

Just drove throught the Crown Heights neighborhood. I am amazed. Really these are incredible houses and the yards in the neighborhood are gorgeous. It looks like some upscale suburb.
However the Kosher/Caribbean mix/clash would make some people feel alienated I suppose. But wow. It is gorgeous over there.

Posted by: tom at August 12, 2005 3:23 PM

I usually include that block in Crown Heights on my "driving trip thru brooklyn" for interested out-of-town guests.. beautiful.

Posted by: OE at August 12, 2005 7:12 PM

Umm... wasn't 1244 President on the market maybe 3-4 months back, at about 100k+ less? I could have -sworn- I remember that picture of the parking garage (old white Mercedes)...

Posted by: se at August 15, 2005 12:04 AM

This Crown Heights house has been on the market since last February. It was listed at 899K in April, and the owner had very little flexibility in the price. It is a great house in many ways with lots of details, great light and plenty of space, but not your standard brownstone layout. The footprint is bigger- about 1200sf and rooms are probably smaller and there are more of them. Also, compared to a brownstone there is a smaller percentage of the space given over to the stair, since most of the space is on two floors.

Posted by: ameraleed at August 15, 2005 7:00 PM

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