Bay Ridge Rising: Limestone Flip for $799,000
To follow up on yesterday’s post on Bay Ridge, this listing from Aguayo & Huebener seems to be ample evidence that $800,000 does indeed get you a solid 3-story limestone in the up-and-coming neighborhood. As usual, no address info from A&H, but mention that the house is The house is located at 227 87th Street,…
To follow up on yesterday’s post on Bay Ridge, this listing from Aguayo & Huebener seems to be ample evidence that $800,000 does indeed get you a solid 3-story limestone in the up-and-coming neighborhood. As usual, no address info from A&H, but mention that the house is The house is located at 227 87th Street, which is within the PS 185 School District for what it’s worth. (Is that particularly good?) According to a commenter in yesterday’s post, this place sat on the market for a long time last year, finally selling for $599,000. The reason given for the low price: Seriously listing floors. According to the same poster, the new owners did some minor work on the house and now have it back on the market. Floors, moldings, etc. look to be original and in good shape. BTW, anyone know the address?
Bay Ridge 1-Family [Aguayo & Huebener]
Ms GreenDog, your the real estate person that said the 72nd St. house (4th/5th) would sell @ A & Hueb many months ago….not yet (its still overpriced:>).
Many Limestones were built in 1899 as well…
I can not help but be amused by the constant cry of “the parking in Bay Ridge is awful.”
Have any of these people ever tried to park downtown?
Is having a garage and a driveway a wonderful asset?
Of course it is.
Is not having a garage and/or driveway the end of the world?
NO
I have lived in Bay Ridge for more than 16 years. I have never had a problem finding parking. I have had to park a few blocks away from my residence but I quickly figured out which blocks most often had spots open and just went straight there. Some of my neighbors just *have* to park on the block, so they double parked and when a spot openes in 15 min to an Hour they take the opening. By the way these neighbors never sit in their car to wait this process out because someone on the block gives them the heads up when a spot is open.
The trade off is simple, either you get a house with parking or you get a house with a yard. It’s your choice. You can generally find houses in the same price range that offer one or the other. Generally,the houses with parking were built in the 1920s or later, the Limestones were built between 1901 and 1918.
PS 185 is the premiere public elementary school in Bay Ridge. Although all of the schools are good. PS 102 houses the Delta program for “gifted” children. PS/IS 104 is an excellent school as well.
Also District 20 has huge amounts of $$ designated for the construction of a new High School and several combo PS/ISs. The site for the High School has already been selected and will be built in the next few years.
I have lived now 12 months on 74th st 4/5th and
have NEVER had a problem parking, sure a few trips around the block nothing seious….
Your wealthy customers are willing to pay to live in Park Slope for a lot of other reasons besides which houses saved more details.
I would like to but the discussion back on track, and that’s the love of Brooklyn Brownstones and Limestone’s. And yes Park Slope has beautiful brownstones, no one would dispute that. But IMO, being a third Generation Brooklynite, and a owner of a restoration company. Bay Ridge has the best stock of Houses with “original Details” for the price. It’s easy to understand. Sure I have wealthy clients that want their new Slope Brownstone to look original, but the problem is the amount of time these houses have been bought and sold. Ripping out the original detail ,with every new owner. During the 70’s and 80’s it was cheaper to gut and start anew, very few restored. That’s where Bay Ridge has the leg up over the Slope. People don’t move out of the neighborhood. Houses are past down in the family. Do some random searches on property shark on the Limestone areas of Bay Ridge, the families have lived there forever. For me as a restorer, this is gold. Just a funny tidbit about limestone’s in Bay Ridge, when my Dad was growing up in Bay Ridge when they first started to build Limestone houses, people hated them because, when the men came home drunk, they had a hard time figuring out which was there house, they all looked the same. People would stumble into their neighbor’s house, not knowing it wasn’t theirs. This was a time when people didn’t lock their doors.
Dyker Heights is literally right next to Bay Ridge.
It is the hilly area aound the Dyker Heights Golf Club.
My bad, apparently. I always thought Poly was in Bay Ridge… probably Park Slope myopia. Sorry. It’s close, isn’t it?
The “blue-blood” private school: Poly Prep CDS is actually in Dyker Heights. Unless you were refering to Adelphi Acedamy or…?
Actual address: 227 87 St Brooklyn, 11209
from NYTimes AD. I checked the width on Propertyshark and it is indeed 20ft wide.