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Open House Picks

Categories: Open Houses

houseClinton Hill
103 Greene Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$2,100,000
GMAP P*Shark

housePark Slope
370A Sixth Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sat 1-3, Sun 1-3
$1,850,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseFiske Terrace
1822 Glenwood Road
For Sale By Owner
Saturday 12-2
$1,600,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseDitmas Park
1128 Glenwood Road
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1-4
$1,550,000
GMAP P*Shark

houseCrown Heights
610 Eastern Parkway
LIC Real Estate
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$799,999
GMAP P*Shark



By Brownstoner at June 8, 2007 12:35 PM | Comments (32)

32 Comments

By tinarina on June 8, 2007 2:06 PM

I'm so glad the Greene house has historic lentils. Go Jerry Go!

By z on June 8, 2007 2:08 PM

i'm told the greene house also has beautifully updated chickpeas.

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 2:11 PM

Is it me or do all of these listings seem high priced? (I know, it's me.)

By Confused and bemused on June 8, 2007 2:17 PM

For Fiske Terrace
This has to be the most interesting construction of a sentence I have seen in a long time.
How the heck do the windows on the outside of the house, end up in same breath as the cedar closets on the inside of the house?

"The house has several stained glass windows with closet spaces in the rooms made of cedar wood".

By John Ife on June 8, 2007 3:03 PM

Man; slow day for the comments! Everyone at The Hamptons?

John Ife

By Grant Hart on June 8, 2007 3:13 PM

Check out the his and hers bathroom shots of the Park Slope house. One's baby blue, the other pink.

Oof.

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 3:30 PM


Unfortunately, I don't think people really give a hoot anymore.

Brownstoner may have to pull a few tricks out of the old brown paper bag if he wants to keep things exciting 'round here!

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 3:43 PM

Has every house on 6th Avenue gone on sale in the past year?

Hey, here's what I'd love to see: every week, Brownstoner goes back to his HOTD from 6 months ago (or a year, whatever) and sees if they sold, and for how much.

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 3:49 PM

Dear 3:43,
6th Ave is an residential AVENUE. It is long. It has more brownstones than any other street or avenues the area. Of course a lot of listing come from there. What is your point?

By zeebee on June 8, 2007 4:13 PM

Anon 3:43, good idea.

I saw the 6th Avenue property at an open house three or four weeks ago. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't gone to contract. There's been only a trickle of 1- and 2-families in the north and central Slope under $2 million that didn't require a couple hundred K to make them liveable.

For me, this house's drawbacks are the 16-foot width which did feel narrow in the hallways and the front parlor, the hideous garden level which needs to be totally redone unless you like cheap paneling and orange Formica, and the avenue location. This stretch of 6th feels more commercial than higher up. There's a pub on the 5th Street corner and from the front parlor you're looking across the street at a dry cleaners. The upstairs bathroom is cramped and awkwardly set at the base of the stairs on the 3rd floor - you'd want to relocate that entrance.

On the plus side, it's a solid Park Slope address, there's a lot of space (even the top floor dormer room is still pretty big before the roof slopes), You're not impossibly far from the R and F trains, and the building is liveable now. The garden gets tons of light and is very open. What I saw to be done was cosmetic work only - the kitchens and baths, lots of layers of paint and plaster to remove, and the garden floor. It could be a great spacious one family or a nice triplex with rental.

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 4:40 PM

the other 6th avenue brooklyn properties has for the same price looks nicer, albeit smaller, but is in 321 and this isn't.

choices choices.

quiet comments - Maybe we're just all searching for clips of paris hilton freaking out as her tiny brain short circuits?

By anon on June 8, 2007 6:14 PM

they're all over priced. buy 'em up and drive 'em higher so we have something to talk about. :)

ps. I thought that orange formica was really something...

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 6:56 PM

It must be a slow day. No one made any comments about the round bed in the tower bedroom of the Fiske Terrace house, and only one comment on the horrible bathrooms in the Park Slope house.

By enid on June 8, 2007 7:19 PM

The architecture of the Crown Heights house is great, as usual, but the ad says it needs a COMPLETE gut reno. No surprise...people trash these houses then sell them. Also, last year, houses comparable to this, already renovated, were going for about 50k less.

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 8:15 PM

Lentil soup on Greene anyone?

By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 8:33 PM

everybody in new yawk sez lentils instead of lintels. It's wona doze tings.
....if a girl's incindentals are no larger than two lentils.....
Funny Girl, 1964


By Anonymous on June 8, 2007 8:49 PM

dear 6:56
is it a round bed or a pouf?
a pouf is the ticket for the center of
s round room.
a round bed not so much unless of course it is a round water bed, which are always in the best of taste.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 7:45 AM

Surprised nobody brought up that the Park Slope house was on the market for $1.6 since last fall. It was recently re-listed with a different broker and a different price. Inside everything is 50 years old, except a fresh coat of paint.

By Brownstoner on June 9, 2007 8:04 AM

We've been growing increasingly suspicious about the authenticity of a series of negative comments in last Friday's Open House Picks thread. So earlier this evening, we went back and examined the IP addresses associated with these comments. Turns out they were all from the same address. It also turns out that, viewed in their totality, the large majority of this commenter's other contributions were clearly written with the intent to insult or attack PLG and its residents. We have no problem with dissenting opinions (actually, they're generally good for business) and are willing to live with the occasional sharp elbow and rude remark that comes with the anonymity of the medium, but, as we've said before, we're not going to tolerate someone who's purposefully trying to stir the pot, especially when his/her actions involve personal attacks. As a result, this commenter's IP address has now been banned from the site.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 8:53 AM

If we're being technical about Flatbush Neighborhoods (not just lumping them under the Ditmas Park banner), then the house at 1128 Glenwood is actually in West Midwood.

Both homes are on Glenwood - on either side of he subway cut - closer to Midwood than to Prospect Park and the new amenities on Cortelyou Road.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 9:19 AM

Clinton Hill - Nice.

Park Slope - Okay, Washing Machine in the Pink Bathroom , not a good look.

1822 - Okay, pouf will probably not be part of sale. Removing the siding and repairing/replacing the shingle would be a good look. Not near Prospect Park or Cortelyou either.

1128 - Not too much detail and has that ugly siding. Also very close to Coney Island Avenue but not near Prospect Park or Cortelyou.

Crown Heights - Would be an excellent opportunity for developer.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 10:34 AM

"As a result, this commenter's IP address has now been banned from the site."

that won't do anything, they can pickup a new IP so easily. You'll need to watch for them to return and do the same thing in future.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 10:54 AM

Clinton Hill: Bad paint choices. Not that it matters in the long run, but Ben Moore just threw up a rainbow on that house. The yellow is especially ick.

Also no mouldings and what looks like a dropped ceiling (the high hats? Office/Jersey Mansion lighting. . . hate it)

Staircase looks -- new -ish?

It's just too bad because it looks like a great location and could have had some charm in it.


By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 6:09 PM

Does anyone know what school district the 6th ave house is in, if not 321?

By Wendy on June 9, 2007 6:39 PM

The park slope house is in PS 39. I saw it today and was pretty disappointed. It'll require A LOT of work to make it decent and the fresh coat of paint didn't even help much. What's surprising is that a very nice, move in condition one family was listed across the street for $1.7, and it was wider and didn't need any work. The narrowness of this made it feel pretty "railroad-esque" and all floors needed something substantially redone or moved.

By anon on June 9, 2007 8:16 PM

park slope house looks gorgeous. even if it needs some work, i think it's priced ok. houses in clinton hill are going for over 2 million. put a couple hundred thousand into this one, if need be, and you've got a great house in a terrific neighborhood.

those details looks amazing.

By Wendy on June 9, 2007 10:11 PM

the photos are deceiving. there's really nothing remarkable about the park slope house.

By Anonymous on June 9, 2007 10:54 PM

So what. It's going for a considerably less than remarkable price.

By TW on June 10, 2007 12:40 AM

FWIW, Greene Ave is #2 most viewed property on Corcoran's website

By Anonymous on June 11, 2007 9:57 AM

TW: I think it's more about the location than the house (which is unremarkable).

By Anonymous on June 11, 2007 10:00 AM

PS house looks like a little gem; I hate the area but would forgive it if I got to live in that adorable building. It doesn't look huge, but the proportions seem perfect.

By Anonymous on June 12, 2007 11:08 AM

PS house owners refused to sell when offered 1.6 (their full asking price) a while back - nice folks that they are.
That's why it is now relisted.

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