Just Sold in Brooklyn
FORT GREENE $575,000 69-71 South Oxford Street Renovated prewar two-bedroom, 11/2-bath condo, 1,053 square feet, with porcelain bath, kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and granite countertops, terrace and city views; Common charges $509, taxes $298. Asking price $599,000, on market 18 months. Brokers: Kara Kasper and Rodolfo Lucchese, The Corcoran Group. Just Sold! [NY Post] Other…
FORT GREENE $575,000
69-71 South Oxford Street
Renovated prewar two-bedroom, 11/2-bath condo, 1,053 square feet, with porcelain bath, kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and granite countertops, terrace and city views; Common charges $509, taxes $298. Asking price $599,000, on market 18 months. Brokers: Kara Kasper and Rodolfo Lucchese, The Corcoran Group.
Just Sold! [NY Post]
Other sales in the building here
Only the lower portion of the facade was left. The upper portion was blown to kindom come. All those little columns and other details are pressed metal. They require painting.
They are all new and pretty convincing imitations of the originals. The Landmarks people really made the owner put it back like before.
I remember coming home from being out of town for a few days and seeing just the facade left of the building from the fire.
The building had been sporadically under reno at the time, so it seemed like they just decided it would be easier to torch the place then to continue on with the reno.
JP, when you say the owner plans to paint the facade, I truly hope the owner intends to paint just the windows, doors, and trim–not the gorgeous stonework. Always kills me when people take a virtually maintainence-free material like brick or limestone and coat it with paint….
This has always been a very troubled building. The fire -and explosion- in the eighties was not accidental.
I walk on the other side of the street on this block. Things have probably changed, but just a head’s up.
W – the link you posted is from 2 years ago. i think it’s fair to revisit a property two years later, no? neighborhoods change, etc…
My fiancee and I looked long and hard at that unit as well, and ultimately it was just out of our price range. Weird layout, like a suburban split-level house, but the location is hard to beat. For a 3BR (it’s really kind of a 2BR) on a park block that close to half a million dollars, a nice value.
We got far enough in the process that we were told the management is going to resurface/paint the facade and staircase in front and it’s already been budgeted for. My hope is that once they’ve done that, it’ll become even more attractive.
Some coverage from 2005 when the renovation had just begun. B’stoner, this is the second post you’ve put up today that you’ve covered before (HOTD). What’s up?
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2005/06/the_roanoke_sig.php
I lived across the street from this place just a few years ago (in the Griffin on a high floor that looked onto the roanoke) and it is true that there was always a lot of traffic coming and going out of that building. I never saw drug dealing, but it wouldn’t surprise me because it always had the kind of foot traffic you’d expect in a 30 story building, especially at night.
And the building WAS really trashed – half of the front door was literally missing so the lobby was somewhat exposed to the elements; it actually stood out because most of the other immediate areas of Ft. Greene didn’t have this kind of building anymore. I’m really surprised it had been “rebuilt” in the 80’s, cause it looked like it had never received any exterior maintenance ever. It looked completely neglected.
If it’s true that they didn’t do a gut reno down to the masonry of the front facade, I think it’s a shame- it’s an absolutely beautiful building, and very unique.
but this is infinitely better than what was there, i can assure you.
All sympathies and due props to whoever rescued this building from drug dealers and squatters–but they still failed to honor such a gorgeous property with the appropriately nice reno. The friends we toured this place with ended up buying a second-floor condo overlooking Ft. Greene Park with easily 500 more square feet, details, a nice kitchen, and much lower common charges–for the same price this unit sold for. Takes all kinds…