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November 18, 2008

Closing Bell: 315 Garfield Place, The Movie


Open House NYC has decided to profile our house of the day from September 15th, still on the market with Brown Harris Stevens. This should give you a real 360-degree view of the place. Still think it's worth $8,500,000?




Posted by lisa at 4:00 PM | Comments (26)
Categories: Closing Bell, Park Slope

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According to public records, this house last traded for $3,275,550 exactly two years ago!!! I highly doubt it was a wreck when purchased, so no amount of renovation can justify the $5 million+ mark-up, especially in this market. This is not the Connelly mansion.

Posted by: nyc87 at November 18, 2008 4:09 PM

Is all that detail really original? I dunno. I'm not feeling it. I prefer when detail actually looks antique. This is too perfect. Nice dining room floors though.

Posted by: rh at November 18, 2008 4:14 PM

I found it funny where she's extolling the virtues of having a shoe rack and drawers in a closet in an $8MM home as if it exists nowhere else in the city.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at November 18, 2008 4:20 PM

The price of this house is justified due to the little known fact that it is carved from a single enormous rock of crack.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at November 18, 2008 4:29 PM

The last line gets me if this house was in Manhattan it would be 30 million.. Yeah this house is all over Crown Heights for 800K.. Just hit Dean Street and Brooklyn Ave.

Posted by: Amzi Hill at November 18, 2008 4:31 PM

"Yeah this house is all over Crown Heights for 800K.. Just hit Dean Street and Brooklyn Ave."

No.

Posted by: Prodigal_Son at November 18, 2008 4:33 PM

18th century Spanish floor tiles? Doesn't she mean 19th century?

Posted by: 1842 at November 18, 2008 4:44 PM

Stop the movie at 2:06 and take a glance at the bathroom (every bedroom in the house has it's own bath...) It's like 1 frame, and you can see why (not that there's anything at all wrong with a modestly appointed bathroom, but you spent thousands on the shoe rack?)

Posted by: lalaland at November 18, 2008 4:45 PM

MTV Cribs meets Masterpiece Theater

Posted by: BrooklynLove at November 18, 2008 4:48 PM

I like the Mill Basin house better.

Posted by: Heather at November 18, 2008 4:53 PM

lalaland, you're right about the bathroom. You can find a better bathroom in a cheap rental. So, apparently, whatever renovation was done did not include all the bathrooms. You can't mark up a property by more than $5 million with a straight face and show that bathroom.

And while the kitchen is nice enough, it is not an $8.5 million kitchen either. Those are not even custom cabinets. This listing is almost unreal.

Posted by: nyc87 at November 18, 2008 4:57 PM

"What an embarrassment of riches!"

I loved that house when I saw it as HOTD (not for $8.5 M though).

lalaland, I caught/thought the same exactly thing!

Posted by: TownhouseLady at November 18, 2008 5:17 PM

Friends I have lived on this block for 25 years++ Trust me if you want to see detail and just plain and simple great quality of work, check out the two houses next door, the first is 313 , you may not like the color but boys and girls trust me this house inside and out is outta this world. Next door to this home is 311 Garfield , which was just purchased about 2 or 3 years ago, The new owner totally brought this house back to its day. I have been privy to get an occasional peak inside , and i can only say Oh my!!!! Its a romanasque revival, and the outside is currently under construction to bring it back to its original form. If you want to spend that kind of money ring the bell of 313, and 311. Please forgive my spellingt

Posted by: tart at November 18, 2008 5:24 PM

Are my deceiving me or did I see a beige toilet with a black seat and cover??
Say it ain't so!!

Posted by: bayridgegirl at November 18, 2008 5:40 PM

"Are my deceiving me..."

re-write please

(sorry, it's been insane here at the Death Star but I just couldn't go an entire day without at least one petty comment)

Posted by: Biff Champion at November 18, 2008 5:42 PM

Speaking of petty comments...I just have to take issue with the copy in the ad. I either find myself highly incensed at poor grammar, typos, and exaggerations or simply laugh myself silly reading these real estate ads.

"...a new brownstone façade...": It is not brownstone. Even I can tell THAT!

"Both the main and auxiliary kitchens feature white statuary marble counters...":

Statuary marble? I'm sorry, but this is ridulous...

I think the house price must be based on the word length of the ad copy. Also, Joan should have a new photograph done.

Posted by: BrooklynGreene at November 18, 2008 6:14 PM

Why is everybody bitching?
Is this not a beautiful place to live?
Must all the postings be put-downs?

Posted by: mark swiss at November 18, 2008 6:24 PM

It's killing me whenever she says "all original". C.P.H Gilbert designed a mansion with Colonial Revival rooms, but the rehab added to or replaced many parts, and rather anemic looking replacements at that! Some parts may be a century old, but that front door, and even the stairway bannister, looks like the result of a quick shopping trip to Home Depot.
The knotty pine and the plaster moldings may be original, but I can't imagine what else was. $8.5 million? What could they have been smoking when they picked that number?

Posted by: brikenny at November 18, 2008 6:30 PM

Well this house and its location is exemplary of joie de vivre in Brooklyn but to answer your question Mr B it ain't worth close to $8.5m in our opinion. Even with better bathrooms and an above average kitchen this thing is @ least 25% over inflated. We like the wide stone facade, garden,awesome flooring & location but "huit millions"? In this economy? Most hedge fund folks are dead or dying but then again we've been surprised before...LOL.
As an aside that comment about if the house was in Manhattan is simply silly since location is in fact automatically factored into desirability and hence price. As Amzi Hill has pointed out there is equivalent or better architecture not far away in CH for exponentially less.

Posted by: pierre de taille at November 18, 2008 6:47 PM

I agree with comments above, but gotta say, those pinwheel parquet floors are gorgeous! I especially like the wide border with even more intricate inlaid patterns. Beautiful.

The rest of the house is nice, but not $8.5 million nice. I've seen equally beautiful interiors on the Bed Stuy and Crown Heights house tours. Amzi is right.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at November 18, 2008 7:05 PM

're-write please'

You're right, Biff. I need to do a re-write of everything I wrote yesterday. Somehow, the words weren't lucid. I would start writing and my mind would wonder. But I do think my point was made.


Thanks for pointing it out! And I'll try harder today.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at November 19, 2008 8:40 AM

BRG, only if you have the time. I don't want you to get too tied up with it.

Posted by: Biff Champion at November 19, 2008 1:36 PM

Today, I think I can manage to free myself up and do alot better than yesterday.

You must have been busy, you didn't post alot yesterday, were you strapped to the chair at work.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at November 19, 2008 2:01 PM

Things were definitely rough here. I actually had to collar someone into helping me out. I'm almost at the end of my rope.

Posted by: Biff Champion at November 19, 2008 2:11 PM

Biff, just make sure you don't enslave anybody to get things done. They might turn on you and give you the same treatment.

Posted by: bayridgegirl at November 19, 2008 2:25 PM

BRG, it's a slippery slope. You get one of these wet behind the ears recent MBA grads from Columbia, Yale, Wharton or even SMU and they don't know their ass from their elbow. Yet, you want to make sure they can fit in nicely.

Posted by: Biff Champion at November 19, 2008 3:08 PM

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