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July 5, 2007

House of the Day: 265 Clinton Avenue NOT!

It's a good time to be a buyer with a lot of dough in Clinton Hill! In addition to 275 Washington Avenue for $3.5 million, there's another gem at 265 Clinton Avenue just became available also for $3.5 million. Currently known as Lorenzo Hall, the 35-foot-wide brownstone currently serves as student housing (we think) for St. Joseph's college. It's a legal two-family with double-parlors on the first and second floors. Lots of beautiful plasterwork and 14-foot ceilings too. To top it off, this is arguably the grandest block of architecture in all of Brooklyn. So the question is, if you had the money, which of these two houses would you opt for? Update: So here's what we think happened. It never made sense (a) that St. Joseph's would be selling 265 Clinton and (b) that if it were if would use Best Apartments as the broker. When we were looking through the New York Times listings yesterday, there was a photo of 265 Clinton without the address. Of course, we went and figured out the address. When we put this post up this morning, they must have realized they would get busted pulling a bait-and-switch and went and put up photos of the Brooklyn Properties listing (which may be open for all we know). Of course, whenever something like this smells fishy, we try to take a screen shot for posterity's sake—which we've pasted in above. Anyway, the whole thing's a little weird but it appears that the bottom line is that 265 Clinton was never for sale in the first place.
265 Clinton Avenue [Best Apartments] GMAP P*Shark

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BStoner: If I'm not mistaken, I think the title of your jump is incorrectly given as Washington when the jump is to the Clinton house.

Posted by: lemonhead at July 5, 2007 11:13 AM

no pics of the kitchen or bathrooms of this one... if this was used as student housing, does it need a lot of work (all of the pics are close-ups of details....)

Posted by: bk at July 5, 2007 11:15 AM

yo i'm gonna rap about this to my peeps in Flatbush

we love white people buying up our hood
peace

Posted by: Mos Def at July 5, 2007 11:19 AM

I've been in the Washington one... and oddly the 2nd link (that goes to a pic of the front of the clinton one) has pictures of washington... meaning the front is clinton but the rest are washington pics. Also, the washington link (to Brooklyn Properties) is misleading... the floors have been stolen out of the washington one - you can see that in the other link... it has gorgeous potential and will need a LOT of work. I'd love to see the real pics of the inside of the clinton one!

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 11:26 AM

Wow! Now that's a house.
Perfect for the zillionaire who could renovate it and fill it with great stuff.
I would love it if Stoner could track the outcome of this.

Posted by: Sam at July 5, 2007 11:31 AM

make it affordable housing
i can fit 36 head up in that piece

keep brooklyn real

Posted by: Mos Def at July 5, 2007 11:40 AM

Mos Def, I appreciate the sentiment, but, in this case: This mansion doesn't look like it started out as "affordable housing" to me. Why should it be affordable now?

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 11:53 AM

Not enough pix showing enough of the interior,but just based on the exterior, I liked 265 the best, just exquisite... with the beautiful frontage... though kind of wondering what's on the otherside of the house out of camera range...

Look, if I just can't have 265, I would settle for 275... :)

Let em check my lotto ticket!

Posted by: bren at July 5, 2007 11:55 AM

The potential is off the hook.

And I agree Stoner - this might be one of the absolute best blocks in brooklyn.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 11:56 AM

at the rat y'al are goin
there wont be no peeps left in brooklyn
what am i gonna rap about?
what are y'all gonna bop ya heads to??

as lyricist to the official brownstoner.com anthem (i expect a royalty check soon btw) my opinion counts too

keep brooklyn brown, and i dont mean the facades of yo houses

Posted by: Mos Def at July 5, 2007 12:01 PM

How did this broker get the listing? Seems weird that a firm with no presence in the neighborhood would get such a primo house...

Posted by: tinarina at July 5, 2007 12:08 PM

Mos Def are you twelve years old. Your posts are juvenile.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 12:17 PM

no juvenile is another rapper
i can see how u made the mistake
we all do look alike

ask brownstoner, he knows hip hop

bk represent

Posted by: Mos Def at July 5, 2007 12:20 PM

Thanks for the laughs yo

brownstoner keepin' it real

Posted by: clinton hillbilly at July 5, 2007 12:26 PM

Hey, I didn't say it had to be a white zillionaire.

Posted by: Sam at July 5, 2007 12:41 PM

265 needs better pictures, but I'll buy 'em both!

Posted by: GHB at July 5, 2007 12:48 PM

Tough call. I love the inside of the Washington house, so I'd pick that one. But I wouldn't shed any tears if I got "stuck" with this Clinton one.

Posted by: lesterhead at July 5, 2007 12:51 PM

Sam, I agree. Maybe Mos and Kanye can share it. What a party that would be.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 12:55 PM

Although 275 is certainly not to be sneezed at, this one at 265 is a gem. Since we're talking fantasy buying anyway, I think the width of this one makes it a row house of distinction, for that reason alone. In terms of immediate neighborhood, if the college is right next door, I guess one would have to weigh college kids vs new construction cruddy condos. College kids win for me. The details shown are beautiful, it's got that nice looking deck/railing in the back which is very nice, and it's soooo wide.

Bren is right, time to look at the lotto numbers.

Oh, the Mos Def impersonations were witty a time or two, but it's getting old. The parody is edging over into sterotyping. If you really respect Mos Def, it's time to stop.

Posted by: Brower Park at July 5, 2007 1:01 PM

Brooklyn Properties certainly does have listings in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area. Mostly top range too. They used to have a recently sold page, but it's gone. They had a nice one previously on one of the park blocks in FG.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 1:49 PM

BP also has a Fort Green office on Fulton and Lafayette.

No, I'm not an agent...

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 1:52 PM

OOPS. Looking at the other listing.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 1:53 PM

Not a Broker but LOVE BP. They get the fun stuff, the mansions with the weird turrets and solariums. Usually in total disrepair. But so much higher value than any of this corcoran trash.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 2:44 PM

You are most certainly on the BP payroll. Give us a break. And I am most certainly not a Corcoran agent either. Just sick of this ridiculousness. Makes the whole industry you are in look pathetic. And it's not. Just some of you are lame to resort to this kind of junk. Luckily the reputable agencies don't have to advertise in this tacky manner.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 3:05 PM

i thought u loved me
i guess you just exploited me
dont you ever post my lyrics on ur fake ass blog again

Posted by: Mos Def at July 5, 2007 3:52 PM

ya fools still dont get it

brownstoner theme <> mos def lyrics

its like Ronald Reagan tryin to use Springsteen's born in the usa as his theme song...until he was told to stop

Posted by: jeeeeez at July 5, 2007 3:56 PM

Why would a broker shill anonymously to buyers, anyway? To sellers, that I could see. But it's not like anyone's going to read a blog thread and say, "Ooooh, I want to buy a Brooklyn Properties house! I'm not even going to LOOK at that Corcoran crap!"

I don't think either of you are shilling. You both just have too much time on your hands.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 3:56 PM

Heard on the street: one of Brooklyn Prop's agents with deep roots and good connections in Ft Greene and Clinton Hill just left Brooklyn Prop to go to another firm.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 4:17 PM

floorplan!!! what the f$%k! $3.5 listing... and you can't spend the money for a damn floorplan!

Posted by: uugggg at July 5, 2007 4:20 PM

isn't it illegal to pull that crap? at the very least, it should get the realtor banned from advertising in the NYT...
(damn, who am i kidding -- advert $$$ trumps bad behavior every time)

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 5:15 PM

I'm guessing that Bouchra wanted to advertise 275 Washington (which must be an open listing) and somehow ended up taking a photo of 265 Clinton and putting it on the listing by accident.

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at July 5, 2007 5:37 PM

This is classic real estate porn! It doesn't matter if it's not a real listing! It's harmless and it got me hot for a few minutes. If only all listings for sale did.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 5:45 PM

Anon 5:45: shut the F*** up. you're pathetic in so many ways . . .

Posted by: fed up with idiots--too many to mention at July 5, 2007 7:46 PM

please be civil

Posted by: Anonymous at July 5, 2007 10:14 PM

Sorry, but who cares? This is turning out to be a brokers gossip rag.

Posted by: anon at July 6, 2007 1:10 AM

not surprised whatsoever that it was Best Apartments pulling this.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 6, 2007 12:24 PM