Residential Sales in Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS $855,000 888 Park Place 1-family, 4-story brownstone house. Lots of details but in need of full renovation. Broker: Weichert Realty. PARK SLOPE $890,000 194 17th Street 3-family prewar brick house; 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, dining room, eat-in kitchen in each unit; finished basement; 20-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $2,008; listed at $890,000, 2 weeks on…
CROWN HEIGHTS $855,000
888 Park Place
1-family, 4-story brownstone house. Lots of details but in need of full renovation. Broker: Weichert Realty.
PARK SLOPE $890,000
194 17th Street
3-family prewar brick house; 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, dining room, eat-in kitchen in each unit; finished basement; 20-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $2,008; listed at $890,000, 2 weeks on market. Broker: Aguayo & Huebener.
FIrst item submitted by reader; second item from the print edition of yesterday’s New York Times.
I would love to see some photo of the renovations. Mrs. Elizabeth Dare, Wife of Edward H, was my husband’s Gr-Gr grandmother’s sister.
mike z, congrats on your place. the detail on the outside is simply beautiful. we are neighbors, around the corner. welcome and enjoy!
Congrats. Although I’m a bit bitter towards you, since we had an accepted offer on the place, and then not accepted, and then an accepted offer, and then not accepted.
Good luck – you have a beautiful place!
Congrats MikeZ. We don’t live in CH (we’re in PLG) but to keep the cellar dry, follow the advice we kept getting. Which was to keep the water away from the foundation. The slope or grade in our backyard sends all the water right up to the house. Fix that, in addition to the drains. You could also get a garden design that encourages water to sink in, in spots, instead of creating run-off. Good luck!
888 PkPl.: Gorgeous house. We looked at the open house. MikeZ, My wife and I are among your new neighbors, one block east.
Welcome.
Thanks for rolling out the welcome mat. I’m really excited to be here and have already met a lot of great people on the block.
Wow Mike…. congratulations!
As a representative of this blog’s red headed step children down here in Crown Heights South…. I’d like to welcome you and offer my sincerest compliment…… envy.
You picked up an amazing piece of history there man….. that is one seriously beautiful house.
Welcome to the nabe, MikeZ. THere are lots of great people on your block, some who post here regularly. Hope you will be interested in Crown Heights North Assoc, too. We’ll bring around the welcome wagon. All the best.
For anonymous at 4:38
My engineer, who is very thorough and has my complete confidence, tells me “a hard $260–not counting the kitchen” (which has to be gutted). he doesn’t buy my assertions that I can renovate the baththrooms myself, and or install an interior drainage system in the cellar myself. If you give me the benefit of the doubt, then maybe I save $20k to $30k. This estimate also does not include much of the pretty stuff– the restoration.
Money is tight, so I’m going to have to do triage. Keeping the water out is my number one priority at this time (roof, cellar and busted pipes).
I’m open to any and all advice, even if I don’t always take it.
Cheers