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August 22, 2008
Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights
34 Orange Street
Halstead
Sunday 1-3:30
$3,490,000
GMAP P*Shark
Greenpoint
997 Lorimer Street
Douglas Elliman
By Appointment Only
$1,190,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
96 Fenimore Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1-2:30
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Kensington
800 Church Avenue
Fillmore
Sunday 2-4
$949,000
GMAP P*Shark
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Does anyone know what that big building is across the street from 997 Lorimer?
Posted by: mothra at August 22, 2008 1:34 PM
Open house by appointment. A brilliant realtor-speak oxymoron.
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 1:36 PM
So, 34 Orange Street has been on the market for four months and the price chopped from $3,950,000 to $3,490,000.
Doesn't it seem like the price has to come down quite a bit? The house is tiny, basically a two bedroom plus a 1br rental, and appears to have "much coveted on-premise parking" but no yard.
Posted by: SnarkSlope at August 22, 2008 1:38 PM
I've walked by that Lorimer street house before. It's a nice quiet street and very close to the subway. I really like that house and think that Greenpoint has allot of upside potential in general.
Posted by: dosteov at August 22, 2008 1:42 PM
"This is the house that you can have been imaging yourself sipping iced tea on your enormous front porch waving 'hello' to your neighbors."
Gotta love Fillmore. Anybody want to take a stab at identifying the grammatical errors in that one sentence?
Posted by: PPSer at August 22, 2008 1:43 PM
The big building across fron 997 Lorimer is the back of Rite Aide (formerly Genovese, formerly a roller skating rink(the '80s), formerly a movie theater (back in the day)).
Posted by: Spunky123 at August 22, 2008 1:45 PM
PPSer - I'd be embarrassed if I was on my house having a drink (on the roof I presume) and my enormous front porch waved hello.
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 1:46 PM
that broker can have been imaging himself writing better copy.
Posted by: z at August 22, 2008 1:46 PM
Even though I'll keep on runnin', I'll never get to Orange Street.
Posted by: rh at August 22, 2008 2:00 PM
Kensington... what was once grand is now rubbish.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 2:03 PM
I think we should all start commenting on the kitchen in the Orange Street house. Thats a 3.5 million dollar house kitchen if ever I saw one.
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 2:04 PM
The throop loop stoop pooper would have a field day on that 800 Church Avenue porch!
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 2:07 PM
Dave - that Kensington place is profound.
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 2:07 PM
dittoburg...the kitchen is a "clean canvas awaiting your grandest of wishes"
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 2:12 PM
dittoburg, that's the kitchen at 34 Orange? I thought it was my doctor's examination room with a kitchen table and chairs thrown in. I was going to ask if they accept Oxford Healthcare and what the co-pay is.
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 2:14 PM
Dave - you missed your calling, perhaps you could sell your description to them. Biff - I actually did "LOL" at your comment (to quote the tWhat).
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 2:16 PM
Dammit ditto - you made me look!
Posted by: cobblehiller at August 22, 2008 2:17 PM
thanks ditto, but this is no time to laugh. According to DOWhat (= DOW8000SP500 + What + Asshat), we are down to 55 days until doomsday, which is October 16!
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 2:26 PM
That stretch of Lorimer in Greenpoint is very nice. I always wondered how much those houses go for. Not sure if it's 1.2 million nice. To me this is the most attractive deal of the bunch (orange is nice but not for that price)
Posted by: A Guest at August 22, 2008 2:41 PM
Biff - I think the animal world is already sensing the coming cataclysm and therefore behaving in a peculiar manner. I've heard that the monkeys are chirping, which presumably means the sparrows are having tea parties. Everything is uspide down just like the twat predicted.
Posted by: dittoburg at August 22, 2008 2:43 PM
Wonton...this upside down world is best described as "Sec see, ou fann" Excuse the badly translated cantonese
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 2:54 PM
ditto, and now Dave is calling you WonTon and speaking Cantonese to you! Anyhoo, I just took a gander at the kitchen at 96 Fenimore Street and instantly fell in love with 34 Orange!
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 3:10 PM
Re: Orange Street
Considering that the house a couple of doors down, with about the same amount of space, a much nicer layout and facade but possibly more mechnical work required, just closed for a bit south of $2.8 million, hard to see why this won't need to come down by another $0.5 million to be taken seriously. Parking isn't worth $700K, even in Brooklyn.
Posted by: NorthHeights at August 22, 2008 3:16 PM
Biff! October 16th is the day we have calculated from the various DOWhat predictions? We need to do something special?
Posted by: wasder at August 22, 2008 3:23 PM
that was just a message to Wonton using ditto's upside down reference. Not calling ditto "Wonton"
The translation has more to do with the stoop poop thread..."Eat sh!t, sh!t rice" Which is a great cantonese expression for upside down or backwards. Only Wonton would have appreciated it!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 3:25 PM
I say we all meet at Union hall on the 16th for drinks to celebrate!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 22, 2008 3:26 PM
RH,
You'll never get to Orange Street. And my girl says our house is an embarrassment.
Posted by: Johnny at August 22, 2008 3:27 PM
Lets seriously do it. But DOWhat needs to come too.
Posted by: wasder at August 22, 2008 3:27 PM
Dave, that idea is pure genius. Let's call it our "End of the World (Or Maybe Not) Mixer". We have to do it. If we're alive, we buy DOWhat drinks all night. If we're dead, we'll buy him drinks all night!
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 3:32 PM
I was so excited. I meant to say, "If we're alive, DOWhat buys us drinks all night; if we're dead, we'll buy DOWhat drinks all night!"
Posted by: Biff Champion at August 22, 2008 3:36 PM
To have a few million dollars extra... unfortunately, all of my money is tied up in other people's bank accounts. I'm still trying to figure out how to get them to share it with me.
Posted by: tybur6 at August 22, 2008 3:48 PM
If we are alive DOWhat buys us drinks and fans us with copies of Moody's. If we are dead we buy drinks from the beyond and fan DOWhat with our moldering limbs.
Posted by: wasder at August 22, 2008 4:01 PM
If you could take a little off the Lorimer St. place, I think you'd have a good buy. It looks to be unmolested but still inhabitable. You could fiddle with the woodwork in your spare time...
G train is something of a drawback (no direct access to Manhattan) but i like that area.
Posted by: Bolder at August 22, 2008 5:57 PM
Thank you, Johnny! It took nearly an hour and a half for someone to bite.
Posted by: rh at August 22, 2008 6:22 PM
I can has been imaging cheezburgr?
Posted by: sdrubbins at August 23, 2008 7:45 PM
The initial ask on the Lorimer house was 1.35 which was insane. It has a lot of nice details, I saw it when it was first on the market-it had to be January. It is not set up to be a two family, there is only one stairway and you'd have to look at your tenants going through your house everyday. Is has it's share of "molestation", kitchen is avocado green, bathrooms need updating, dropped ceilings, etc.
It would be a nice one family, but that area really doesn't warrant the price tag in that area, yet, IMHO.
Posted by: bqe1970 at August 23, 2008 8:41 PM
anyone go to the lorimer st. open house?
Posted by: dittoburg at August 25, 2008 10:20 AM
How about the house in Kensington. Has anyone been inside? It looks as though its a corner property. Those Victorians are all going to be renovated one day and will be untouchable.
Posted by: Adam Dahill at August 25, 2008 2:25 PM
I saw Lorimer st when it first came on the market. It's way overpriced for the work that needs to go into it - kitchens, bathrooms, electrical...
While it's a nice quiet block close to the subway, you will always look out the front windows and see the barbed wire in the back of the Rite Aide.
There are 3 other houses for sale within 1 block of that house. One of them no longer has a sign up and may have been taken off the market. The others languish as well.
I don't believe they will get that price given today's market, increased costs and tougher lending requirements.
Posted by: Spunky123 at August 25, 2008 3:10 PM
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