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October 5, 2009
House of the Day: 276 Berkeley Place
This knock-your-socks-off mansion at 276 Berkeley Place in Park Slope was on the market back in 2006 for $4,250,000 but never sold. Now the 36-foot-wide Romanesque Revival house, which is full of drool-worthy historic detail, is back on again—this time for $4,200,000. Given that it's 9,000 square feet and 11 bedrooms, the price doesn't seem crazy to us, to the extent that buyers exist in that price range. Waddya think?
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House of the Day: 276 Berkeley Place [Brownstoner]
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Well the price might not seem crazy to you Mr. B, but we have one metric - 4,250,000 in 2006 didn't shift it. So why would it go for essentially the same price now?
Posted by: dittoburg at October 5, 2009 1:21 PM
Not to take away from this beautiful house but the interior of the St Mark's home that we've been speaking about in today's OT is far, far more impressive. yes, it needs a good polishing and painting and a lot of other work as well but the woodwork is far more extensive and brathtaking than even this beautiful place.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 1:22 PM
Yeah, but, dibs, look at those en suite baths...
Posted by: Arkady at October 5, 2009 1:26 PM
"Waddya think?"
I think ya still in Hawaii. It's a 1-fam in 2009. Price filled with hot Ponzi cheese (perishible).
***Bid half off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 1:26 PM
yummmm.
Posted by: Kensingtonian at October 5, 2009 1:27 PM
To be fair, they didn't give it much of a shot in 2006...here is the listing history...it was basically on the market for about 2 months total...gorgeous house. Walk by it a couple times a day...
09/07/2006
Listed in StreetEasy by Corcoran at $4,250,000.
10/25/2006
Listing is no longer available.
11/29/2006
Re-listed by Corcoran.
12/19/2006
Listing is no longer available.
09/25/2009
Currently Listed in StreetEasy by Corcoran at $4,200,000.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 1:27 PM
seems to me this place has been on and off the market for ever. wasn't it on the market around 2000-2001 and failed to sell? ditto 2003ish. and 2006. and now now?
Posted by: Ringo at October 5, 2009 1:27 PM
While, ideally, I would prefer the location be a few streets south of here, this is one gorgeous place.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 5, 2009 1:28 PM
Your right Dave St. Marks could be even better than this place...
Posted by: Amzi Hill at October 5, 2009 1:30 PM
Your right Dave St. Marks could be even better than this place...
Posted by: Amzi Hill at October 5, 2009 1:30 PM
not for nothing dibs, but that house has been fully discussed twice here before.
Posted by: Ringo at October 5, 2009 1:31 PM
More Photos, PLEASE!!!
While it looks stunning, the mouldings in living room and bedroom aren't heavy and grand enough for me.
The staircase is gorgeous.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 1:32 PM
The limestone exterior at St. Marks is also yummy.
However, I would take this place and then proceed to become head of the UN and a Nobel Prize winning scientist and bestselling author while my wife, Audrey Toutou, raises our six children.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 1:34 PM
ensuites are good, nice and add to the value of a home. Small worthless Victorian rooms with two doors are worthless.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 1:34 PM
I prefer the PShark history.
6/21/2004, $3,175,000
12/2/2003, $2,640,000
9/27/1991, n/a (probably $500K before reno)
We're headed for far worse times than 2003 (pre-reno or not). How much did the median salary go up since 1991 before falling to $400/wk?
***Bid half off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 1:37 PM
Are we at July 2004 price levels?
If so this will trade for 3.175.
I think it'll go for more than 3.75, if anyone wants a big house anymore.
Posted by: antidope at October 5, 2009 1:38 PM
Gorgeous house. That staircase is jaw dropping. That and the width make this house amazing. From the pix shown, the rest is certainly nice, and the location is great. Lots 'o money, that's for sure.
We have some incredible residential architecture here in Brooklyn. I'll stay local, and happily renovate the above mentioned St. Marks house with this money, and have change to pay for the basement indoor pool.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 1:40 PM
9,000 square feet and 11 bedrooms?! What the hell do you do with that??
I grew up in a house with 8 bedrooms, but I don't think it was anywhere near 9,000 sq ft! That farkin' enormous!
Oh, and only nutjobs have as many kids as my parents... so I can't imagine why you would have this many rooms. The price tag is waaaaaay too high to try to make a living as a B&B and no single family could possibly use all those rooms.
Posted by: tybur6 at October 5, 2009 1:43 PM
Someone said to me the other day, "...such and such is like a brownstone, lots of elegant rooms but no closets."
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 1:44 PM
Oh, maybe Kate Plus Eight... how much does TLC pay her to show her train wreck of a life on TV?
Posted by: tybur6 at October 5, 2009 1:44 PM
yea...the *width* is impressive.
Posted by: ftgreenepark at October 5, 2009 1:44 PM
This would go for way more in Gravesend.
Posted by: Minard Lafever at October 5, 2009 1:46 PM
Just to give you an idea, the house 3 doors down (270) sold back in 2007 for $3,350,000. At 20.5 feet wide, it couldn't have been nearly as ginormous...
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1070981
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 1:46 PM
- and no single family could possibly use all those rooms.
Why not? They could be used as rooms to show people when they come over.
Posted by: brownjokester at October 5, 2009 1:46 PM
quote:
ensuites are good, nice and add to the value of a home.
yeah. if you have a chronic case of trunkbutt and can't make it from the bed to a bathroom in time? POO MIST! but the more i watch HGTV i guess i have to accept that people really do like to sleep where they poop. ICK! what's wrong with America? why don't you just stick an ice machine on the side of the bidet while youre at it?
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 1:52 PM
Would it be just an unforgivable sin to add an extra kitchen on one of the top floors?
The house is gorgeous, but as ..jokester mentioned, that's a tremendous amount of room and space for one family, expecially when dinner time would consist of 10-15 people all storming down the stairs to have thei supper.
An upper kitchen would allow you to invite grandparents or a sibling and their kids into the house and give them their own complete living space.
Posted by: crazypants at October 5, 2009 1:52 PM
Gorgeous house but i am battling with MM and others for the St. Mark's house :-) fixed up, the St. Mark's place will outdo even this beautiful house in detail.
Posted by: bxgrl2 at October 5, 2009 1:55 PM
11 bedrooms would make an awesome old school brothel, too bad brothels have fallen out of favor in this part of brooklyn.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 1:56 PM
DIBS, this pales that much in comparison with the st marks place?
sorry MM, DIBS just convinced me to chk out the st marks place and I plan to put in a shiny steel door at the entrance.
Posted by: more4less at October 5, 2009 1:56 PM
"lots of elegant rooms but no closets"
Closets between rooms via updating/reno. Everythang aint fo' everybody.
"This would go for way more in Gravesend."
Mazzletof!
***Bid half off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 1:56 PM
I just don't see where the pool of buyers is for such a property, gorgeous as it is. I don't think the price is unfair vis a vis the size but still, who is going to buy a 4million dollar one family these days?
Posted by: wasder at October 5, 2009 1:56 PM
"I don't think the price is unfair vis a vis the size but still, who is going to buy a 4million dollar one family these days?"
Who knows really...perhaps someone who's checkin' out this place and wants to save 18 mil....?
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1369076&ohDat=
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 2:00 PM
Is the St Marks Place house really better than this (once polished up)? In the words of Borat, "Wah Wah Wee Wah!" - I should check it out.
Posted by: the chicken at October 5, 2009 2:04 PM
Due to the location of this house...nearly on the corner of Plaza Street West (which is very quiet) the house feels quite private to me.
For that reason, perhaps this would appeal to a Brooklyn loving celeb.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 2:04 PM
Question: Would you rather have this place at $13,000 a year in taxes or that $4m Co-op with the secret batcave entrance for $4,000 a month in maintenance?
Looks like double parking is popular here.
Posted by: Brokedeveloper at October 5, 2009 2:04 PM
Yes, m4l has far, far more mahogany!!!!
rob, to be specific, I can poop in my ensuite bath and never smell anything in the adjoining bedroom. Thre is a door and it just doesn't travel that far. It's not like the toilet is in the bedroom and the door to the bathroom is about 15 feet or so away from the bed.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:06 PM
The family from "Yours, Mine and Ours" would love this house. I'm with DIBS, Amzi and MM that the St. Mark's house is even nicer (and this house, while beautiful and in a great location, is just a bit out of my price range).
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:06 PM
Taxes at St marks are $6,800 which surprised me. i thought they'd be even lower.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:10 PM
chicken, the St. Mark's house is really that spectacular. As Dave said on Saturday, most of the woodwork needs nothing more than a good cleaning.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:11 PM
Tyburg, three of those bedrooms will be perfect for the orphan-scullery maids.
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:12 PM
The St. Mark's house has been on the market since June 2008...
It started at 1.5 million. Is there something wrong with it? Why is it sitting so long?
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 2:14 PM
11217, it's not really inhabitable as is. No real kitchen and baths that just need to be torn out. The first floor unit needs to be gutted. I think it has to be a cash deal.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:17 PM
11217, it needs a new kitchen (2 if you want to rent out the garden floor) and new baths. Also, there is a large back bay room (it's not a window, it's more like a small oval room), running from the top to the bottom of the house, that is sagging (especially on the top 2 floors) and needs to be jacked up.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 2:19 PM
Isn't this realistically the type of place that a private organization or something would buy? Aren't most of the "single family" buildings around Gramercy Park owned by organizations or clubs or what have you? Even if you were a bajillionaire, and let's say you have 4 or 5 kids (not likely), want to live in Brooklyn (not likely), and have parents living with you (not likely), this is still 4 or 5 bedrooms too many...
Posted by: lucille at October 5, 2009 2:29 PM
OK, add on some live-in help. But it's still too unwieldy. Imagine living there and the simple everyday moving around. It's a labyrinth.
Posted by: lucille at October 5, 2009 2:31 PM
quote:
rob, to be specific, I can poop in my ensuite bath and never smell anything in the adjoining bedroom. Thre is a door and it just doesn't travel that far. It's not like the toilet is in the bedroom and the door to the bathroom is about 15 feet or so away from the bed.
still.. what about when you have gentleman callers over? do you really want them hearing your go to the bathroom and vice versa? do you make them use another bathroom? you do realize the mist goes under the doorway, right? like that old horror movie The Fog!
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 2:34 PM
"Whaddya Think"?
May be worth this, and maybe they get it. Don't know, I'm not an oligarch.
But what I think is that the sellers think the real estate market has come down 50K, or .00000000001$ on a four-and-a-quarter million dollar property since 2007.
you just have to love the pricing strategy on that one!
Posted by: MoneyForNothing at October 5, 2009 2:34 PM
"How much did the median salary go up since 1991 before falling to $400/wk?"
Hey, to be fair, unemployment is now $425 a week in NY thanks to the stimulus package....
Posted by: MoneyForNothing at October 5, 2009 2:36 PM
I live in a mansion in Clinton Hill that was built by the same Royal Baking Soda family and they look exactly the same inside, same staircase and everything...except for mine has about 15 apartments carved out of it and it's dark and creepy.
Posted by: boofer at October 5, 2009 2:44 PM
Link for the St Marks place?
Posted by: MoneyForNothing at October 5, 2009 2:45 PM
MFN, unfortunately Cobra costs almost as much!!!!
Posted by: mopar at October 5, 2009 2:46 PM
I love reading these old NYTimes stories...
Here is one of their, If you're thinking of living in Park Slope from 1987...
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/17/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-park-slope.html
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 2:53 PM
11217...I liked this line "while a D'Agostino's supermarket, a hallmark of affluent neighborhoods, plans a branch at Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue."
WORST SUPERMARKET IN MANHATTAN where I lived on the UES.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 2:57 PM
Interesting. Mooney's didn't have to complain in the end, did they? Sharlene's is my alt-bar now...when I want another but don't feel like going to the local, or the other sort-of-local.
---
Now, everyone I meet who is new to Brooklyn lives in Greenwood Heights. There must be some kind of scene there for people in their late twenties, early thirties. I am a little jealous, frankly.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 2:59 PM
Yup, Dave and it just closed up last year and has become the new La Bagel Delight/Five Guys Burgers/Bank of America.
Looks from that article that it was also around the time that the T Thai place we talked about here last week opened up. That place sucked too!
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:01 PM
Greenwood Heights and Prospect Heights seem VERY popular to me right now with the groups you mention, infinitejester.
I can most definitely see why on both counts...
As much as I love GH, for me personally the commute to the places I go often (office, Lincoln Center) would not be ideal at all. Otherwise, it has a really great vibe and a nice diverse array of housing, people and commercial.
And Prospect Heights is just awesome, in my opinion.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:04 PM
No clue why Lincoln Center is amusing, but I probably don't want to know.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:12 PM
i giggled because it seems like such a random place to mention tht's all
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 3:16 PM
MFN, here's the URL for St. Marks place:
http://tinyurl.com/y9kgh5c
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:19 PM
Rob, If you knew what I did for a living, you wouldn't really think it's random. I'm at Lincoln Center at least a few times a week for work and I perform in an orchestra which rehearses at Lincoln Center as well on my free time. It's a place I go to A LOT and considering my office is also on the Upper West Side, finding an apartment which is easily commutable to there was a priority of mine.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:20 PM
I love Prospect Heights. And Greenwood Heights. It's just that I'd never heard of Greenwood Heights until, like, yesterday, LOL. Not quite, but in the last couple of years. To me, it was either Sunset Park or the South Slope.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:21 PM
Back when paper was first invented, and I was in high school, I used to collect Marvel comics. I lived upstate then, and never dreamed I'd be living in NYC. Anyway, in one issue of Thor, God of Thunder, Thor, who had the corniest speech patterns of anyone in comic history, was at Lincoln Center for some reason, and he said something to the effect of " These buildings doth rival the home of the gods, yea, mighty Asgard itself must pale in comparison." I always think of that when I'm at Lincoln Center, especially at the Met. It's a pretty impressive complex, and it works in scale, materials and massing. Although now almost 50 years old, and more inventive and more impressive buildings have gone up in the world, I still really like it a lot. I used to spend a lot of time there, and will always think it is one of the best parts of Manhattan.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 3:21 PM
Best representation of Thor is in Daredevil #233, when the Avengers show up to stop Nuke's path of destruction. Also the best depiction of Captain America.
There was an issue of Thor where he traveled to other dimensions; the way they depicted those dimensions was so mesmerizing to my 15-year-old mind, I've never forgotten it.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 3:25 PM
gotcha. (i guess somebody's gotta clean those rusty trombones) lol
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at October 5, 2009 3:26 PM
I learned more about what living in New York would be like from reading Daredevil than from any other source.
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 3:27 PM
New Widget - Amount of time before property gets delisted.
I think it's time Stoner creates a new widget - time on market before getting delisted. All the open house picks are not selling so what sense does it make to use a price widget when nothing sells? I predict this one goes off the market in about 4 months. No way, no how, this one sells in the present climate. There were very few people who could have afforded this when times were flush, and it's not going to be to everyone's taste. I wouldn't want to live there. Seller is obviously in denial as evidenced by their lowering the ask by $50,000. Anyhow, on the new time widget, I say 4 months and then drops off the market.
Posted by: Brooklynnative at October 5, 2009 3:28 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_(Marvel_Comics)
Posted by: infinitejester at October 5, 2009 3:29 PM
I love that Montrose.
Have you been up to see any of the renovations yet? The newly opened up Alice Tully Hall is quite impressive. The entire concert hall is now lined with the veneer from a single Moabi Tree, and is thin enough so that with LED lighting behind it, it creates a marvelously warm glow. The entrance to the hall is a spectacular transformation as well, as is the new lobby.
The fountain has just reopened, complete with a new water feature done by the same folks who did the water show outside the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas.
Lots of exciting new things happening up there these days...
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:29 PM
Thanks for the perspective, 11217 @ 2:53.
"...three-story brownstones range in price from $250,000 in fringe areas near Fourth Avenue up to $900,000 for properties on Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West, the boulevard that runs north and south along the park. Brownstones near the middle of the Slope average $750,000." [circa 1987]
And those were bubble times. Hmmm... What are these brownstones REALLY worth today?
***Bid half off peak comps***
Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 5, 2009 3:30 PM
MM, I agree, and I never stop loving the Chagall murals.
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 5, 2009 3:31 PM
I think my colleague was one of the first people to pay over $1MM for an Eigth Ave house. I was in it last week...totally spectacular...about 8,000 sq ft I think and a roof deck with unobstructed views of all of Manhattan including the Staue of Liberty.
BTW, each of the original bathrooms had ensuite baths. It was built in 1905.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:34 PM
Woah, 11217, sounds beautiful. I haven't been there in a while, my music budget is toast these days. I'll have to make it a destination soon. Thanks for the update.
Jester, I learned more vocabulary from comics than from books. I had a very impressive collection from between about 1970 and 1986. Unfortunately, the earlier end of the spectrum, the more valuable pieces, are long gone. My Mom left them all upstate when she moved the household back to NYC. I didn't know until it was too late.
Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 5, 2009 3:37 PM
Hey Dave,
What did you think of Yamato? It's not my favorite Japanese place in the neighborhood (not even top 3) and I'm surprised that people who have such seemingly lovely taste would take you there. :)
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:37 PM
11217, the sushi is very good as well as the appetizers. Also, the sushi portions are large. it's owned by a Japanese, not a some other people and that makes a big difference. She likes the smaller one a block or so up the street. I like Yamato primarily for the sushi portions and they ALWAYS have Toro.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:40 PM
Which ones are your favorite?? They must have Toro or i won't go.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:42 PM
In the neighborhood, my favorites in order are:
Blue Ribbon Sushi
Oshima
Taro sushi
Sounds like I should give Yamato another shot. I think I partially didn't like it because it's next to Starbucks, which if I could rub a geenie and make a wish, it would be to put them out of business. Not really, but I have bad feelings towards them and that block is literally THE most filled with strollers of any in PS.
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:45 PM
She likes Blue Ribbon and Oshima better as well. She's not obsessive about the Toro like I am.
Yamato is a smorgasboard of Asian employees. The sushi chefs are from Fujian (where my Chines bf is from) and the waitstaff is from Malaysia, Bhutan and a few other places. But the owners are Japanese.
I went into Oshima and asked them in Japanese for the business card and they looked at me like I had 2 heads because they too were Chinese.
She lives on the block just after the Montauk Club.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 3:49 PM
11217, if you like classical the LSO is in town 10/21-10/25 at LC, I hear they're having trouble selling tickets. I'm never disapointed by them.
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 3:50 PM
I'm one block from Montauk Club as well...
And I can ALMOST see the HOTD from my place...
:)
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:53 PM
Already have a ticket for the Schubert 8/Mahler Das Lied von der Erde on October 23rd, Delepp. :)
Posted by: 11217 at October 5, 2009 3:55 PM
Re. HOTD:
What a joint!
How could anyone possibly complain about it -- if they could afford it? (With the exception of Brownstoners, of course!)
And by the looks of the house's furnishings, the folks currently there live quite nicely, thank you.
Posted by: NOP at October 5, 2009 3:57 PM
I can't wait, should be a great concert.
Posted by: DeLepp at October 5, 2009 3:58 PM
NOP,
How 'bout we go in on this house together? There's so much space, maybe it would work..."cohousing" on a differently scale. Wouldn't that be great?!!! I guess it would be a little unconventional.
11217,
Yes Alice Tully was a real success! The renovations on the plaza are wonderful too. Do you perform? Where can we come hear you?
Dave,
Why would you go to one of these restaurants and expect to be understood in Japanese? My goodness! As you well know, and imply above, many, many of the City's Japanese restaurants are owned and run by Chinese and others. PLUS, the level of MSG in some of these restaurants' food is ridiculous...I've had an MSG-induced migraine often enough to have sworn off Japanese food in NYC except the best...or I'll wait until we're in San Francisco or something.
I'm not sure I was looking at the St. Mark's Crown Heights house everyone was wowwing over. Is it that white house with no cornice? I went to the link you had on the Open Thread (rather, the "F-work Thread"). The realtor's website had only 5 photos. I couldn't see why everyone was drooling over it. There was no photo of a large staircase...nothing. The floorplans were too small to see. Maybe I had the wrong ad? I thought the house was ugly.
Look, regarding this House of the Day, I think it is very nice. I could live here but it would be fun to try it with a group of empty nesters. It would spectacular painted and wallpapered the way it was when it was built! The wallpaper would cost a fortunte though. All-in-all, the house of the day is n-o-t my taste at all but I can see the charm. Even though it would compound the heaviness of the interior, yes, I have to say, you might as well go all the way and decorate up to the eyeballs...carpet up the stairs, proper furniture, etc. Geesh! I'm getting anxious just thinking about the cost to decorate this house!
And the cleaning!!! Okay, that's settled. No thanks no the house
BHO,
Sure, if houses in prime Park Slope were only $900,000 in 1987 (i.e. TWENTY-TWO years ago), why should $2-3.5 million be so shocking today? Listen, everything has gone up, up and up! College tuition and health insurance premiums have increased many more times than the possible upswing on the house above. And if you think tuition and health insurance are skewed comparisons, let me bring it down to a more mundane level. My weekly grocery shopping costs have probably gone up at LEAST by 3 times, possibly 4, 1987. I would be hard pressed to find anything that only *doubled* over these 22 years. Can't think of anything. Of course, I don't by chemical, factory food, Wunder Brot, etc. so maybe I'm out of touch with what cheap food costs but my impression of that kind of food is that it too has more than doubled, probably tripled over these years.
I used to pay, say, a dollar for things that are now $3+. Something that was $0.89 in 1987 is now $2.89. YOU do the math.
From another angle, we've been interested in having a prefab mod modular house installed in either upstate NY or the Berkshires. Guess, what, the better level is *not* cheap *at all*. You could easily end up spending half a million dollars on something not too extravagant. Building costs have simply gone up *that* much. It's rather surprising that "they" can't move lots of new homes but costs of new construction are still high.
***Someday bid half off peak taglines***
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at October 5, 2009 7:06 PM
BG...many of us went through the St Marks house on the CHN House Tour. The website sucks, It never had a cornice per the attached house next to it but needs work up there anyway.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 5, 2009 7:24 PM
So it was that big house with no cornice. H'mmm...How was the location? Was the house ever cut up into apartments?
Sounds like it was interesting, the tour...wasn't the tour on Saturday during the rain? I couldn't make it but had wondered about the tour when I hear the upcoming weather report on Friday. I believe the Prospect Heights tour is this coming weekend. Someone wrote about it on Brownstoner but I can't remember when it is exactly. I think Wasder posted the time. You'd think Jonathan et al might have a featured entry instead of simply putting the house tours on the "Weekend Events" grouping. Honestly, I think an actual brownstone house tour on a blog called "Brownstoner" might be worth its own entry.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at October 5, 2009 8:22 PM
That's an idea, Brooklyn Greene. But co-housing implies sharing responsibilities -- and I'm totally undomesticated. I could bring along my NY personal assistant, but she'd only boss everybody around, the way she does me! NOP
Posted by: NOP at October 5, 2009 8:52 PM
NOP,
Oh, well. I guess my ploy to get you back to Brooklyn failed! It was worth a try!
:-)
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