House of the Day: 160 Bond Street
Another Boerum Hill townhouse for under $2 million! This one’s a little wider than last week’s Fried Green Tomatoes special, but, at 1,440 square feet, hardly palatial. (It’s also interesting that the listing broker is Benjamin James. Since when are they in the Brownstone Brooklyn market?) Anyway, this place is cute, but lacks any knocks-your-socks-off…
Another Boerum Hill townhouse for under $2 million! This one’s a little wider than last week’s Fried Green Tomatoes special, but, at 1,440 square feet, hardly palatial. (It’s also interesting that the listing broker is Benjamin James. Since when are they in the Brownstone Brooklyn market?) Anyway, this place is cute, but lacks any knocks-your-socks-off features. With an asking price of $1,495,000, it’s also gunning to clear the $1,000-per-square-foot mark. Seems ambitious, but there are still a lot of folks out there dying to own a house in Boerum Hill these days, so it’s not impossible.
160 Bond Street [Benjamin James] GMAP P*Shark
I’m probably buying this house – after lengthy negotiations. It’s bigger than some people indicate, and quite charming. Some of the negatives raised here are incorrect. Its close to the subway and 2000 square feet. Frequently realtors will not publish pictures of bathrooms or bedrooms online – for privacy reasons. The seller’s broker has been efficient and forthright by the way.
The only issue I have, having lived nearby, is noise in the summer, and I’d like to hear from other neighbors about this. And I don’t drink Chardonnay or write screeenplays by the way. But whisky, that’s another matter…
I actually visted the property and it is a lot closer to 2400SF. It really is in move in condition, my wife and are considering an offer bc we feel its a great deal. We just started our search and have a few other properties to look at first.
if this dump gives you house envy, i would hate to see where you live. 1.1 tops (in bidding war).
Right on, 10:31. People seem to be laboring under misapprehensions about Boerum Hill based on 15-year-old Spike Lee movies or something. Hint: the code is easy to read–when people say “scary” in this context they usually mean “black folks live there”
while i must agree that the garden is paving-heavy and the greenhouse thing at the back is dated, it is a cute little house on a cute little block. the shots are mainly of the parlor floor, by the way, not the ground floor, which is actually a few steps down from the sidewalk. i am curious as to why it bothers one poster that kids’ stuff has to be cleared out for the open houses; surely the kids don’t come with the house……
5:29 guest and like minded who get all sissied up by the Gowanus Houses + Wykoff Gardens. Your anxiety is about 10 years to old. My 12 year old daughter and 77 year old mother walk around there daily. On there own. Separately. If they can do it, you can too.
I would much rather live in BOCOCA than Park Slope or Ft greene. Also this is a Brownstone you idiot, just because the brownstone is not entire over the facade does not mean it’s not a brownstone
I would much rather live in BOCOCA than Park Slope or Ft greene. Also this is a Brownstone you idiot, just because the brownstone is not entire over the facade does not mean it’s not a brownstone
At least it does not appear to have stretched photos a la Corcoran.
The place is ‘okay’…just okay…turn-key…boring…
I’m kind of surprised there aren’t more photos of say, the bedrooms, bathrooms
It’s all pix of the ground floor for G** sake. And that “dining room” looks a little wretched with the freezing-in-winter/hot-in-summer ugly 80’s glassed in area (with lovely “window treatment”…ugh) and the equally lovely baseboard heating. Ugh bis.
Again, it’s strange that only the ground floor is shown…with one lousy shot up to the front door. What? Is the parlor floor all cut up into bedrooms?
And also, that mostly paved yard is a bore. Who want’s so much hot, impermeable paving? It’s kind of ghastly. So what if it has a couple of curves, some cheap furniture and a “market” umbrella (all from China via Home Depot)…? Yuck…frankly I’d take IKEA over what’s there…you’d think if you’re trying to sell this house at 1.5 (unless the current owners paid near this), hello, it wouldn’t hurt to stick in some DWR outdoor (and indoor) furniture…of course, the backyard photo is not current, but taken during the summer but it looks like it was taken with selling in mind. Hmmm…
That little folding bookshelf in the “living space” is Early Dorm Room.
It looks like a dumpy little house that has had some drywalling, updating of the kitchen, drab (but clean) furniture and boring knick-knacks stuck in. Very perfunctory. Definitely the domain of toddlers or small children that has to be seriously straightened up and cleaned for each open house. An 80’s reno to which some recent 30-somethings added a kitchen update…
Some of the posts above sound like the broker pumping it. 4:25 PM’s “home envy”?…come on, ahredi! The place is okay but not spectacular for this price.
You might as well get into a bidding war for a 3-storey house someplace in Park Slope for this kind of money…or an unrenovated house in FG (though both may cost more, granted).
Not worth going to the open house. Sorry.