Bay Ridge McMansion
Returning from our refinancing closing a couple of weeks ago, we drove down Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge for a few blocks. There were some very charming houses we saw. This one at the corner of 86th Street was not one of them.
Returning from our refinancing closing a couple of weeks ago, we drove down Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge for a few blocks. There were some very charming houses we saw. This one at the corner of 86th Street was not one of them.
I guess it’s fun documenting the adventures of someone who grew up in the cocoon known as the Upper East Side, as he discovers other parts of the city.
I’d certainly rather have this house in the neighborhood than another terrible condo that’s going fall apart around the tenants. These people clearly know how to pay a gardener.
i’ll take it.
This house is pretty sweet. They probably have an indoor pool as well. I pass by this one and a few others along the same size all the time. Unless I am mistaken, this house is in Dyker Heights, not Bay Ridge. Most of these monstrosities are in Dyker Heights.
better looking and maintained than 90% of the new construction in our precious b.stone neighborhoods. i’d live in this in a snap compared to current b.stone (more light, space, garage, greenery, etc).
The stoplight in the picture provides a nice commentary on the design of the house. It’s no double-stair atrocity, but it’s gaudy. The double high “great entrance” (if that’s what it is) does it for me. This looks like a mid-2000s new construction Toll Brothers McMansion that was plucked from somewhere in New Jersey and airlifted to Brooklyn.
Not a “charming” brownstone, but certainly not a McMansion either.
With so many McMansions the proportions are all wrong, and they tend to be a hodgepodge of “fancy” architectural elements. This house isn’t for me, but architecturally it’s not out of whack.
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is it really nice B-stoner to drive by someones house and then publicly call it ugly…..
right? cheeze-itz!
*rob*