Thursday Morning Craig
Le Gamin, Brooklyn. Photo by Jori Klein 4-story 4-family Townhouse $1.675 Million [Carroll Gardens] 2-Family Brownstone 15′ Wide $1.2 million [Park Slope] 4-Family Frame 25′ Wide $899,000 [East Williamsburg] 1-Family 3-floor Frame $789,000 [Greenpoint] 3-Story 2-Family Brock $715,000 [Crown Heights]
Le Gamin, Brooklyn. Photo by Jori Klein
4-story 4-family Townhouse $1.675 Million [Carroll Gardens]
2-Family Brownstone 15′ Wide $1.2 million [Park Slope]
4-Family Frame 25′ Wide $899,000 [East Williamsburg]
1-Family 3-floor Frame $789,000 [Greenpoint]
3-Story 2-Family Brock $715,000 [Crown Heights]
When anyone asks me if I live in brownstone I say its a brick row house.
this is similar to…. why do we drive on the parkway, and park in the driveway?
I’m often tongue-tied by that too – can a brick face be a “brownstone” – technically speaking or would others think it hair-splitting?
For those unobsessed with these matters, brownstone has taken on a more generic meaning, we think.
By the way, that house on 6th Avenue — I could be wrong, but aren’t all the houses on that block brick-faced? Doesn’t “brownstone” imply that a house has a brownstone facade? Or is this a common shorthand for “Brooklyn townhouse” and I’m just being a schoolmarm?
(My own house is brick and I always avoid calling it a brownstone, except when non-Brooklynites ask me if I live in a brownstone and I just don’t want to bother explaining the difference.)
Incidentally, propertyshark at least gives the width as 15′ — of course, that’s from outer wall to outer wall, as with any rowhouse.
For the first anon poster at 09:45 – there is no way that house is even 15 ft wide. 12 or 12.5 max.
Is that listing for the house in Greenpoint a joke? It must be okay inside, if it got landmarked or whatever, but the outside is hideous.
The Park Slope house on 6th ave has been listed and relisted numerous times. I went to an open house when the asking price was 1.5MM – and have seen in posted on CL for as low as 1.15MM. It’s not in that great of a condition – and VERY narrow. The backyard is tiny.