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August 22, 2008
restored Victorian in Bay Ridge
Im not sure if anyone saw this yet, but we were just inside and it was beautifuly restored. Has anyone seen this? Its on a great street also:
http://realestate.nytimes.com/sales/detail/478-N8080065/80S-RIDGE-BOULEVARD-NY-11209
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There's a fixer-upper around the corner from me in north Bay Ridge (Ridge btw 67th & 68th) for $599k. I know they were accepting offers as low as $575k. The two potential buyers so far couldn't come up with the financing.
The catch: "fixer upper" is literal. It needs moderate gutting -- new floors, new kitchen, new woodwork, plumbing, electric. $200-225k should do it if you use a GC.
The up side is that it's otherwise a solid house with great neighbors in a safe neighborhood, one block from Owls Head Park, three blocks from the subway and two blocks from BQE and Belt Pkway entrances. Also close to the MTA Express bus to Manhattan (15 mins).
This place would be good for someone who doesn't want to restore an old house but wants a spanking new home with their own internal design.
Posted by: Steve at August 22, 2008 4:18 PM
Bay Ridge is a great place to live. I just bought a small townhouse on 75h & Ridge after renting here for 25 yrs. Some of the Ridge Blvd victorians are fabulous. The link didn't work - are you looking at the on on Ridge & 84th? I passed by there often, it took years to renovate, as did the one on 83rd and Ridge.
If you aren't familiar with BR and want to see some amazing properties, go to the corner of Ridge and 76th, then walk towards the "dead end". Walk down the stone stairs to Colonial Road, then go around the corner to 77th St and walk back to Ridge Blvd. The properties are awesome and you will see why the street was named Ridge Blvd.
Posted by: premadas at August 23, 2008 6:52 PM
I also think bay ridge is really nice but its also more connected culturally w/ staten island or long island than brooklyn. And while thats not a deal breaker for me, I just cant bring myself to sign up for it yet.
Food fun and fashion...Bay Ridge has it all.
Posted by: slick at August 25, 2008 4:40 AM
True, it's such a great walk to stroll the streets looking at the big houses between Ridge and Shore Road in the 80's and 90's blocks.
But those houses cost as much as a brownstone in Park Slope or the most special, largest house in Ditmas Park. The young, wealthy professionals targeted here by the OP are so unlikely to choose Bay Ridge for $1.9 million, for the reasons Slick mentions. (Unless they grew up there). All the young professionals and families I know coming out of apartments in brownstone Brooklyn or Manhattan, who have bought in Bay Ridge or are thinking about it, they're going for the 2-story brick and limestone houses priced under a million. That's what is bringing them there, the bargains. Not the properties priced $2 MM to $3 MM or more. Steve had the right idea about which house to point out to people here.
Posted by: traditionalmod at August 26, 2008 10:47 AM
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