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January 25, 2006

House of the Day: Cranberry Has The Sauce

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houseUnless we're missing something (which is entirely possible!), $3.2 million seems like a solid price for a very charming Italianate brownstone only a block from the promenade in prime Brooklyn Heights. And while the floors and cabinets in the newly renovated ground-floor kitchen ain't exactly our thing, the house looks otherwise beautifully done. The more we stare at the pictures and think about the price, the more we wonder whether the house might be on the narrow side, but with no address (argghh!) we can't do the legwork to find out. Hopefully someone in the hood can give us the straight dope.

Addendum: We just came across the same listing on Corcoran so it looks like a co-broke, folks. Worth checking the Corcoran site for additional pictures.
Cranberry Street Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Cranberry Brick Townhouse [Corcoran]




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:41 AM | Comments (28)
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It certainly does look very nice

Posted by: Anon at January 25, 2006 11:59 AM

"due dilligence" is a very specific legal term, Mr. B. You should not imply in any way that you are actually doing "due dilligence" by posting these links.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 12:02 PM

Anon 12:02
Dude: You sound like a stalker. Creepy.

I've seen this house from the outside. A lot of brick work was replaced to the lower left of every window (the replacement work was done pretty poorly). There may be something amiss with the facade. Also the front entrance has been replaced. There's a string of these buildings (I think between Hicks and Henry) that are identical. One of them still has a beautiful wooden entrance, pillars included.

Posted by: anonymous at January 25, 2006 12:06 PM

okay. call it "legwork"

Posted by: Brownstoner at January 25, 2006 12:35 PM

I believe that it's 38 Cranberry St.

PS: Typekey isn't working on this site.

Posted by: epc at January 25, 2006 12:36 PM

According to the floorplan, it is 16 by 32. Narrow and short.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 12:50 PM

That would explain a lot

Posted by: Brownstoner at January 25, 2006 12:53 PM

2048 square feet for $3.2 million???? That's $1562 per square foot...somebody's on crack.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 12:58 PM

Anon at 12:06pm is thinking of Orange Street. 38 Orange is being renovated and they filled in A/C pass-thru sleeves. Poor job with that brickwork (they used new brick)

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 1:01 PM

due diligence is fine. 12.02 sounds like some 1st year associate spouting off. silly.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 1:06 PM

Actually, this house is listed as 17.83FT X 35.00FT on the property tax roll (lot is 17.83 x 49). There's no real backyard, just a patio.

I saw this house on a Heights House Tour. It is renovated and very charming. Bathrooms and kitchen well done. However, it is small.

One thing that would strike you if you went to view this house is the beauty of the area. The North Heights retains a charm from a by-gone era. It almost feels like a small village around there. The South and Central Heights are, of course, very desirable, but the quaintness of the North Heights is something very special in this big city of ours.

So, $3.2 mln buys you a renovated and charming and modestly sized home in a beautiful and irreplaceable location. It is easy for many people on a website to diss anything of value, but for someone looking for "home" in one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the city, $3.2 mln may seem well worth it.

OK, now unleash all your wrath against me for saying something positive.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 1:09 PM

Nicely done, but narrow. And jeez, the hardwood floor critiques are getting to be a bit much. If a floor is damaged beyond repair, not everyone is going to go and find salvage parquet...

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 1:09 PM

Only real problem I see, if I could afford it, would be the lack of 1/2 bath on the parlor floor.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 1:12 PM

Anonymous at 12:02 sounds really friggin creepy, can't you block his IP or something>

If I wanted to hear what "due diligence" means, I would talk to people in my office instead of wasting time on this blog.


Posted by: Anon at January 25, 2006 1:25 PM

I don't get it - how is Anon 12:02 "creepy"? Just sounds like a nerdy lawyer to me. I should know, I am one (not the nerdy kind though, I'd like to think). Althugh I do know a lot of really nerdy ones, who can't help but show off their legal knowledge, such as the proper definition of "due diligence."

(besides, Mr.B, as a financial type, likely knows the legal definition of due diligence anway, not that it really matters).

Posted by: Anon1 at January 25, 2006 2:40 PM

definition of "due diligence" - who on earth would interpret a phrase on a site as "due diligence"

Anon 12:02 is just a pencil neck geek, probably 2nd year law student at Fordham

Posted by: due diligence at January 25, 2006 3:02 PM

12:02 isn't the only one who sounds like a creepy stalker. Do you ever listen to yourselves????

I agreee with 1:09. The hardwood floor critics are out of control!

Other 1:09...How DARE you say something positive?!

Posted by: anon at January 25, 2006 4:53 PM

I have a friend who lives at 80 Cranberry and I agree that this block is gorgeous. But isn't this right around the corner from the old Hotel St. George and isn't that going to be some sort of college dormitory?

Posted by: Stacey at January 25, 2006 5:11 PM

The Hotel St. George is a college dorm which I had the pleaure of staying during my Freshman, sophmore, and junior years. We were well behaved. Whom ever buys that house would most likely have no problems. No boozing and puke all over peoples property for those students.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 6:03 PM

It is 38 Cranberry and it is a co-exclusive, not a co-broke. A co-broke is when the exclusive broker for the residence being sold shares his/her commission with the buyer's broker. In this case, it's the listing that's shared between Corcoran and BHS -- only they have the right to sell the place.

And part of the Hotel St. George is a college dorm, part is the studio building, and part is the St George Tower (111 Hicks St), converted to co-ops in the early 1980's.

In any event Cranberry St is far away from all of them -- the St George building is between Clark and Pineapple (and the dorm entrance is on the Clark St side), which is followed by Orange and then Cranberry, so no fear of running into any unsavory students (and they actually don't seem so here).

Narrow or not this house is on one of the most charming blocks of the North Heights -- or anywhere else!

Posted by: babs at January 25, 2006 6:45 PM

Why bother correcting real estate terminology on this site? Terms are thrown around all day in error.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 25, 2006 6:57 PM

I remember when we were houseshopping nine years ago we saw the small detached home on the south side of this block with a side yard that was going for 550k. It was a one-family, and we couldn't swing it without some rental income, but it would have been a very livable house on a magic block. It almost feels like a New England town 10 minutes from Wall St.

Posted by: Gian Trotta at January 25, 2006 11:11 PM

hey anon 6:57 - it would be prudent for you to be open to understanding and appropriately using the real estate terminology critical to those who frequent the site(no I don't mean the trolls just waiting to flame people but rather real owners, buyers, sellers and keen watchers).

I find babs(what firm are you with?) to be annoying and overblown, but hey, I am sometimes and so are you. Let's cut the wasted effort and open our minds to each other rather than rant and flame.

I am a veteran broker (not the stuffed shirts at BHS mind you) and really know brownstone Brooklyn like the back of my hand. Brooklyn Heights fits on a pinky nail with room to spare. There are few real quality brokers out there, find one and listen. FYI - Kim Soule at corcoran is a doll and a very good honest broker. Anyone here, including brownstoner could call her for the nitty gritty, she's one of the few "good guys". I don't currently work for either of the co-exclusive firms but have sold several properties on Cranberry.

This is one of the most quaint areas of the Heights...if you have little ones, Plymouth PreSchool-Kindergarten is quite frankly the most ideal experience one could ask for their child, speaking from personal experience. It's just around the corner fronted on Hicks with the playground on Cranberry. You might think uncool to be next to a school but I can tell you this is a treat whether you have/want kids or not. An offer at $2.7M would be respectable and, if the seller is real, will open a quality negotiation.

Here's one last little free piece of useful info for the BStoner and the troll anon 6:57. Anon 6:57, if more cynics like you would pay attention and attempt to learn you'd help everyone else stop perpetuating terms being thrown around all day in error.
Now the free piece - corcoran.com (they are aware) provides every address of every property listed at corcoran. Go to the property's listing page where you find the description and 'point' your cursor at the "map" link - while hovering the address is shown clearly in the status bar at the bottom of the browser.
Bstoned...come on, you anoy the hell out of me sometimes but I think I'm warming up to you...surprised you didn't discover this yet!

....and to come full circle, "due dilligence" is terminology in a real estate transaction used by attorneys to define specific steps taken but the excellent attorneys I recommend will tell you that they don't own the term. Anyone, including Mr.&Mrs.B, can do their due diligence on something. back to the earlier troll 6:57 so you're not confused - it is better form to apply terminologies acurately and appropriately - but not worth wasting half the thread.

Posted by: truepro at January 26, 2006 12:41 AM

Just hitting the Corcoran website on Cranberry Street is the Moonstruck house for $5 million. It's a much larger house than 38 Cranberry and it has parking for one car. At $3.2 million, 38 Cranberry is an entry point for someone that wants to live in a single family house in a beautiful part of the North Heights. The Moonstruck house probably needs some updating (I don't know for sure because it just hit the market), but it is a very special property and probably worth close to the $5 million asking.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 26, 2006 5:43 AM

I live in a garden level apartment that looks out into the back of 38 Cranberry. Unless you lived on either Hicks, Willow or Cranberry on the block that 38 Cranberry is on, you just wouldn't know how lovely it is in the back yards.

There are huge mature trees, one of which is an old cheery that blossums beautifully in the spring. Birds sing. Squirrels jump around. I'm continuously amazed how tranquil it is and just 5 minutes from Wall Street. I wouldn't trade this spot for any in NYC. I just hope my landlord doesn't read this :-) He may raise my rent!

Posted by: Anonymous at January 26, 2006 5:57 AM

Cranberry Street is really a cute street. None of the houses - or the lots - are the same. In fact, all the fruit streets (Cranberry, Orange and Pineapple) are pretty extraordinary - as somebody pointed out, just five minutes from Wall Street and hardly anybody knows they're there. It's unusual to see two properties on the street for sale at any given time. The building you're talking about here is in the middle of the second block - it's small but very charming.

Posted by: Anonymous at January 26, 2006 2:09 PM

It's amazing around there in the Spring. No other place like it so close to the city.

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