Residential Sales in Brooklyn

those recently-sold snips are so deceiving, exactly as the brokers wish them to be. Does the times get paid by the broker for putting them in? if not, they are very poor journalists there to allow themselves to be used this way.

"oh look darling, that cute suburb the eaton-joneses bought in, remember? we visited them last month and the driver had to stop and ask directions? is so popular now even monstrosities are being snapped up at asking price!"

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 11:29 AM

What deceitful crap! This was on the market for over a year at way above 2,000,000. I think it was kind of a steal at the sale price.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 12:58 PM

I watched this house since it was bought. The reno went so quickly. They stapled and glued polysterene boards onto the exterior brick, which was odd since the brick was fine. Then they secured mesh and mortar onto the polysterene, then stucco and faux stone. They covered over some unsecure flashing and wood on the front section at the very corner, and created this odd roof line. The exterior does seem cheaply constructed, never been inside. The house does not fit the tastes of pslope buyers, if they did, the property would have been in contract in weeks. Covering the brick with polysterene stucco was unnecessary and stupid as was the stairwell. It *was* a sweet property under there, now it looks something better suited for Staten Island.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 1:59 PM

Uh, no, the agents don't ask. No one asked us to publicize our sale. Which reminds me, I gotta talk to my broker about that. It was really shocking to see it.

On the subject at hand, I'm not quite sure what everyone is so offended by. It's not gorgeous but it looks much like a lot of the fancy "modern" (midcentury) interpretations of townhouses. Most importantly, though, it looks like it gets tons of light. The interior could be nice.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 2:00 PM

I'm in agreement with 13th street and 1:59. I pass this one a lot as well. There's a lot of flipper sleight of hand going on. First, the front extension is weird and breaks what is otherwise a perfectly clean line of buildings set back identically. The front extension is also less than the full width of the house, which looks weird but you can't see that in the photo.

Second, the point of the exposed staircase and the glass enclosure that protrudes through the roof seems to be to suggest that this place is much larger than it really is. This is really a three story, relatively narrow house, with a one-story front extension, a short rear extension on the second floor only, and a finished cellar (completely below grade, not a basement) and terraces everywhere. Who needs five terraces? The second floor rear extension makes sense, though. But overall, the actual livable interior space is barely more than that of a narrow but normal-sized three story brownstone.

Third, I have watched the renovation continue in the face of three SWOs and subsequent complaints to DOB of continuing work during SWOs. One thing that happens is that, when someone complains to DOB, the complaint gets posted on the DOB website before the inspector goes out, so the flipper knows to lay low until the results are posted. Easy for flipper to play cat and mouse. In fact, the SWOs were simply torn off the window when the place went on sale, long before the violations were cleared. I went to one open house and asked about the violations and the agent said that the owner had said that all the violations were cleared. When I looked on BIS a few weeks later, they were still there and remained there for a while after.

Fourth -- what everyone else says. It just looks like a cheap job on the inside.

I hope the new buyers aren't reading because they deserve to enjoy their new home, but the way this one got done just irked me.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 3:08 PM

Not only that, but the entire floor plan is a DISASTER... when I saw it, about a year ago, the custom kitchen ate 3/4 of the main living space leaving NO logical place for a living room or entertainment center...

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 3:17 PM

Brooklyn properties are real winners, I suppose they have no sense of design or aesthetic sense to make any suggestions to the builders as to how they probably could have gotten the over 2 Mil asking price. I mean a basic logic of a fluid layout at least!!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 4:11 PM

7:33, you should re-read what you wrote so you can see how off base you sound. a vacant empty building tells the developer that they made a piece of garbage, and should learn from it. as far as the neighborhood needing "more vacant buildings." what? it's not like that block is in danger of blight or anything.

4:11 also added about the realtor's advice, "I mean a basic logic of a fluid layout at least!!" absolutely true.

you appear to be the jaded one.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 6, 2007 8:10 PM

Robin, may I ask where you are from? Why spend so much money on something obviously cheaply made? ALL houses wind up moneypits, but why buy one that starts out that way?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2007 1:43 AM

2:50: since you asked, this reminds me of tht peice of crap that the mediocre fancy artist erected on the corner of S. Portland and (I think) fulton.

As well as that POS that's been sitting on the market i Boerum Hill forever, recently featured on this here site as a cold, ugly, boring Dwell-design victim.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2007 2:06 PM

Robin,
Good for you! Everyone is entitled to their own opinions regarding tastes in renovations but it gives them no right to make nasty comments about your new home. I think the house looks great from the outside, a real breath of fresh air in the area! Congrats and enjoy your new home :)

Posted by: Anonymous at June 7, 2007 7:46 PM