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]
this house is overpriced by at least $300K if there is no alarm system.
Your own garden. Cross-ventilation and sunlight pouring through every room. Parking (your own). Wide leafy streets. And that’s what those of us have–in Ditmas Park and its sister nabes–in the “bad” houses!!!
(Oh, we also pay $7,000 a day to heat all those spacious gracious rooms, but think what we save in parking tickets…)
If Picket Fence were good, I’d say this house should go for $2.1 or $2.2 million. However, given the circumstances, the seller should get asking, even if the neigborhood comps aren’t there, yet.
As wonderful as brownstone Brooklyn is, this is a different kind of wonderful. I love the house, the space, the beauty and dig that kitchen. Gorgeous.
Crime stats in this neighborhood are hard because it includes all of Flatbush (a huge area with some pretty bad parts – like lumping the upper east side with everything up to 180th street). There is a community patrol and I’ve lived here for a while and heard of some things stolen from people’s garages but not much else.
Don’t know crime stats but I do know that the community group pays for a security car to patrol, or at least they used to. This is brooklyn…you have to be careful everywhere. I wouldn’t take a stroll around by myself late at night but I’d try not to do that in most places where there aren’t a lot of people out. I used to play in the front yard, walk to the local school, etc. Again, I turned out fine, but its not for everybody.
No it’s not. Westchester is. Get some perspective.
And that’s precisely why there’s a market for this house in this price range.
Anon 3:32 Ditmas Park is the sticks.
3:26, if you don’t get it, it isn’t the right house or neighborhood for you. This house is almost twice the size of a brownstone, but with natural light all around, perfectly done with amazing original detail retained, has a garage, driveway and back yard and is an easy commute to Manhattan. It is also in a neighborhood that seems to be improving every day and has a very strong community of welcoming neighbors. The bad things you mention are true (other than the commute to work – which is not bad), but believe it or not, in this day, age and area, $1.9 million does not buy you absolute perfection – just look at some of the other things going for this (2-3 bedrooms on ugly blocks in the lower east side and small brownstones that need work in Brooklyn Heights).