Residential Sales in Brooklyn
BEVERLEY SQUARE WEST $1,375,000 1410 Beverley Road GMAP 106-year-old, seven-bedroom wood colonial; family room, four fireplaces, parquet floors, pocket doors, whirlpool, finished basement; two-car garage, 50-by-100-foot lot; taxes $3,800; listed at $1,395,000. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher. DITMAS PARK WEST $1,049,000 1233 Dorchester Road GMAP 104-year-old, five-bedroom Victorian two-family; primary duplex: three bedrooms, two baths; simplex:…
BEVERLEY SQUARE WEST $1,375,000
1410 Beverley Road GMAP
106-year-old, seven-bedroom wood colonial; family room, four fireplaces, parquet floors, pocket doors, whirlpool, finished basement; two-car garage, 50-by-100-foot lot; taxes $3,800; listed at $1,395,000. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher.
DITMAS PARK WEST $1,049,000
1233 Dorchester Road GMAP
104-year-old, five-bedroom Victorian two-family; primary duplex: three bedrooms, two baths; simplex: two bedrooms, one bath; new roof, 28-bt-93-foot lot; taxes $2,813; listed at $1,049,000. Broker: Brooklyn Properties of 7th Avenue.
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Feeling your pain on Marlborough Road Brenda. My huband and I purchased our home in 1995 and we wondered why the previous owners closed off the entire third floor. The first couple of Winters were mild. But the next couple of winters were very cold. We were still paying BUG in July for heat used in September. The summer AC electric bills however are not so bad. We have window units and use them sparingly. We have ceiing fans on every landing and they do a very good job of cooling the house. The large trees on either side of the block provide good shade and we catch really nice breezes on the porch. Our basement is finished and nice and dry without that ‘basement smell’ It is also cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Anyone considering buying in the nabe must seriously take the price of heating a free standing woodframe home into their budget.
Re: heating a wood palace, we have tried, over 20 years–everything. Well, almost everything except cavity-wall insulation because it would shoot out the holes in our walls in the unfinished parts of the house, which would be fun, briefly, but then rather inconvenient. We have insulated the attic, replaced the windows with sealed units that are now all fogged up inside, applied every known form of weatherstripping, gotten our downstairs tenant ceiling fans, even added extra radiators and supplementary convection heaters. And still we have de-facto “zoned heating”: 60 degrees on the ground floor, 70 on the middle floor, and 80 on the top floor. Unfortunately, we live on the middle floor and the tenant, God help him/her, lives on the ground floor. Our new plan is to buy our tenant sweaters and encourage him/her to take long winter vacations in tropical climes. Or to blow up the house and warm our hands over the smoldering ruin. I love summer, and I LOVE global warming; can’t wait to see a penguin swimming in the Prospect Park Lake.
Yours sorrowfully,
$600/month Keyspan “Budget Plan” Blues
it’s funny because i seem to have the opposite problem in my place in Vic. Flatbush. Not exactly opposit really- it cooks up there in the summer- but it also cooks up there in the winter. I guess I shouldn’t complain…
I just assume it is the Victorian ghosts consuming all the warmth and that without them, it would be 120 degrees in the summer instead of just 100;) I solve it the old fashioned way – fans in the summer and flannel pjs in the winter.
Could someone figure out the paradox of why the 3rd floor of the Victorian Wood frames follow the hot air rises principal in summer (when it is 100F inside the third floor) and for some reason that hot air will not rise in winter (and it is 62F on the third floor).
Has anyone solved this problem?
From:
http://www.trackingtraderjoes.com/2005/08/how_to_contact_.html
“If you absolutely must speak with someone at the Trader Joe’s corporate office you can call them at 626-599-3700”
I called & they said that it’s not on the list but it changes daily so keep calling.
I have heard this rumor circulating as well, but have not heard anything from a reliable source.
PPS’er–We’re about to move in to Victorian Flatbush and we are thinking of installing those new ceiling fans that are also heaters in the bedrooms — made by Ryker I think. Anyone have experience with them? Do the higher electric bills just replace the (theoretically)lower heating bills?
Brenda, please whisper! We’re thinking of replacing our windows. Have you done that or anything else to insulate? Despite the heating bills, I still think it’s inappropriate to root for global warming!