House of the Day: 484 East 17th Street
We got a tip from a regular reader on Friday about a new listing on Mary Kay Gallagher that he said was the nicest house he’d ever seen in Ditmas Park. The reason he’d been inside is that it was on last year’s Victorian Flatbush house tour. (We even included a photo of the kitchen…
We got a tip from a regular reader on Friday about a new listing on Mary Kay Gallagher that he said was the nicest house he’d ever seen in Ditmas Park. The reason he’d been inside is that it was on last year’s Victorian Flatbush house tour. (We even included a photo of the kitchen in our recap below.) From the photos on the listing, we’d have to agree that the 1902 Queen Anne Victorian looks spectacular. In addition to the tip-top restoration of the historic details, the kitchen and bathroom renovations look beautiful to us — a rare perfect balance of the modern with the traditional. So the question isn’t whether there will be demand for this house (we bet there will be a line around the block), it’s whether the asking price of $1,950,000 will fly. We bet it’s not far off.
434 East 17th Street [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
Victorian Flatbush House Tour Recap [Brownstoner]
You can see the sketches for the Cortelyou Road improvements here
http://livinginvictorianflatbush.blogspot.com/2006/10/look-into-future-of-cortelyou-road.html#links
Ditmas Park absolutely rocks!!! I love it and would never leave for any reason!!
Work has already begun. The south side of Cortelyou has cobblestone sidewalks, but not the north side. Almost all of the lights have been replaced with period fixtures. As for the landscaping, clocks and benches… we’ll see.
Agreed – if you are thinking of raising a family in this neighborhood, check out flatbush family network. It is a yahoo group. It gives you a good sense of how welcoming the families in the neighborhood are – we take turns hosting different age play groups at our houses, etc… Also – on the Main Street thing, I believe the neighborhood business association was granted funds by the city a few months ago to put in a clock in front of the library and add old school lamps and cobblestone sidewalks to Cortelyou Road. I saw the plans and it looks like it is going to be very pretty, but I’m not sure when the work is scheduled to begin. I assume in the spring or summer.
I never understand comments like 10:34. What, exactly, is wrong with being a new mommy, living in park slope, having a nanny, getting your nails done and buying prada? And what, exaclty, does that comment have to do the outstanding virtues of this beautiful and outstanding home?
For those of you like Bill who are wondering what its like to raise kids in the nabe, a good place to start is the flatbush family network. It pretty much gives a good flavor for what’s going on including open play groups for 2-3 different ages every week as well music class, etc schedules.
It is a great place to live. I am thrilled there are a bunch of people who do not want to live here.
I have people asking me all the time what is coming up for sale on my block.
One of the things that makes it great here is that the people are not as nasty as a lot of “new mommmies” in park slope who have nannies so they can get their nails done and buy prada.
It is the nicest block in Ditmas Park proper (PPS also has pristine blocks.
8:31 – how do you set up such a plan, re: Main Street America?
Also, I’ve been asking everyone locally and on this site, what are those condos going to look like? They were going to be 8 stories… Now 5 with shops beneath. Do you know more about who is behind them, what they’ve done before? Please, please telll us!
Who would have thought there would be such a buzz???? As for the price jump from the purchase price; well over 500k invested. The house was an absolute mess in Oct.’04. Re-appraised in fall of ’05 for refinancing purposes after improvements and can confidently say that the comps issue wont be a problem. Heating $400-500 in the coldest months and there is no sad story (unless you think moving to the country is ;-)!)Any other questions can be answered by Mark Kay ;-)!