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August 4, 2005

Thursday Morning Craig

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Le Gamin, Brooklyn. Photo by Jori Klein
4-story 4-family Townhouse $1.675 Million [Carroll Gardens]
2-Family Brownstone 15' Wide $1.2 million [Park Slope]
4-Family Frame 25' Wide $899,000 [East Williamsburg]
1-Family 3-floor Frame $789,000 [Greenpoint]
3-Story 2-Family Brock $715,000 [Crown Heights]




Posted by Brownstoner at 8:33 AM | Comments (8)
Categories: Craigslist

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The Park Slope house on 6th ave has been listed and relisted numerous times. I went to an open house when the asking price was 1.5MM - and have seen in posted on CL for as low as 1.15MM. It's not in that great of a condition - and VERY narrow. The backyard is tiny.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 4, 2005 9:45 AM

Is that listing for the house in Greenpoint a joke? It must be okay inside, if it got landmarked or whatever, but the outside is hideous.

Posted by: Sloper at August 4, 2005 10:07 AM

For the first anon poster at 09:45 - there is no way that house is even 15 ft wide. 12 or 12.5 max.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 4, 2005 10:16 AM

By the way, that house on 6th Avenue -- I could be wrong, but aren't all the houses on that block brick-faced? Doesn't "brownstone" imply that a house has a brownstone facade? Or is this a common shorthand for "Brooklyn townhouse" and I'm just being a schoolmarm?

(My own house is brick and I always avoid calling it a brownstone, except when non-Brooklynites ask me if I live in a brownstone and I just don't want to bother explaining the difference.)

Incidentally, propertyshark at least gives the width as 15' -- of course, that's from outer wall to outer wall, as with any rowhouse.

Posted by: linusvanpelt at August 4, 2005 10:43 AM

For those unobsessed with these matters, brownstone has taken on a more generic meaning, we think.

Posted by: Brownstoner at August 4, 2005 12:59 PM

I'm often tongue-tied by that too - can a brick face be a "brownstone" - technically speaking or would others think it hair-splitting?

Posted by: Anonymous at August 4, 2005 2:23 PM

this is similar to.... why do we drive on the parkway, and park in the driveway?

Posted by: i own a condo at August 4, 2005 5:33 PM

When anyone asks me if I live in brownstone I say its a brick row house.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 5, 2005 9:40 AM

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