Residential Sales in Brooklyn
PARK SLOPE $1,800,000 447 14th Street GMAP 106-year-old, 3 -story brick 2-family house being used as a 1-family; 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms; living-room fireplace, parquet floors, c/a, original detail, 18-by-100-foot lot; taxes $4,213; listed at $1,850,000. Broker: Warren Lewis. Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark. WILLIAMSBURG $725,000 226 Richardson Street GMAP 1,610-square-foot condo in…
PARK SLOPE $1,800,000
447 14th Street GMAP
106-year-old, 3 -story brick 2-family house being used as a 1-family; 7 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms; living-room fireplace, parquet floors, c/a, original detail, 18-by-100-foot lot; taxes $4,213; listed at $1,850,000. Broker: Warren Lewis. Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark.
WILLIAMSBURG $725,000
226 Richardson Street GMAP
1,610-square-foot condo in a new building; dining area, eat-in kitchen, c/a, hardwood floors, terrace, 2 exposures; common charge $490; taxes $1,191; listed at $775,000. Broker: Developers Group.
Residential Sales [NY Times]
The Columbian Exposition, the “White City” was two years wasn’t it? 1893 & 94. I think so, too lazy to check.
Nota Bene, historian, the World’s Columbian Exposition was 1893, not ’94. It was supposed to be in 1892, of course.
I also understand that one of the houses on the same side of the block, but down towards PPW was built in 1892, so the 1885 guess for this one may be a tad early.
–an architect in Brooklyn
Yes I am a historian. Park Slope history is easy, start at the landmarks commission and buy the Park Slope Historic District Designation Report. That has a ton of info and an excellent bibliography. Read Elliot Willensky’s “When Brooklyn was the World” and Francis Morrone’s “Brooklyn Architecture”. For more advanced research visit the Brooklyn Historical Society on Pierrepont Street and the Brooklyn Room of the main public library on Grand Army Plaza.
Don’t believe the crap you read on these blogs. Half the writers are stoned relators trying to make it through the long day.
Hey Historian 1:40pm.
(Are you really a historian?) Can you recommend any books or websites with historical information about Park Slope? Where did you get your info? Thanks!
I have been looking for maps of the area showing the topographical features of this area of the Slope before it was developed. Anyone have any interesting links to sites or otherwise where I can find out information like that provided by 3:30 and 3:37? Share pictures? Thanks in advance.
“Sorry we’re boring you asshole.”
Actually, it’s just you. Have a nice day.
Our place on 16th Street was built in 1893. It’s not three stories but two with a cellar and a basement. $1.8 ? Ouch! Warren Lewis has been getting their asking prices in the S Slope.
The architect who built 447 actually built all 4 of those together in a row (in the photo) at the same time and lived in one of them. I believe, but am not 100% positive, that it was built in 1905.
Until sometime later, the other side of 14th St. was not built, and was filled in much later (30 years). It was a creek originally. Or so it is said.
“In any event, the entire neighborhood was fully developed by 1890”
Maybe so, but some of the houses I’ve worked on have plans that were drawn and filed for construction in the late 1890’s, and that’s not a date slapped on by the dob, it’s the actual filing of the plans, fwiw.