'Queer' Guy Snags Washington Avenue B-stone
It took some flexibility on price on the part of the sellers, but the Washington Avenue house that Aguayo & Huebener was hawking for much of last year finally closed in February. The buyer? Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s food expert Ted Allen (left) and his partner Barry Rice. The pair traded in their…
It took some flexibility on price on the part of the sellers, but the Washington Avenue house that Aguayo & Huebener was hawking for much of last year finally closed in February. The buyer? Queer Eye for the Straight Guy‘s food expert Ted Allen (left) and his partner Barry Rice. The pair traded in their three-bedroom Chelsea condo for the grand four-story house. Amidst the negative market sentiment of last fall the sales price of $1.7 million might not have felt like a bargain, but given the location and the incredible level of historic architectural details, we’d say this was money well spent. House-hunting turned out to be a major production for the tv personality and his interior designer partner. The pair looked at more than 50 houses all over Brownstone Brooklyn. Park Slope? Too bustling. Carroll Gardens? Not enough architectural detail. Clinton Hill? Just the right combination of “gorgeously preserved houses” and a “great mix of people.” And despite having to deal with the occasional less-than-honest broker, Allen got addicted to the thrill of the chase: “I’m a total real-estate geek — we go to open houses for entertainment,” he says. “Barry yells at me for reading Brownstoner so much.” Keep on clicking.
Queer Eye’s Ted Allen Pays $1.7M for Brownstone [Big Time Listings]
Washington Avenue Listing [Aguayo & Huebener]
I’m not a rich brownstoner, just a struggling renter. I live in the E. Village and last year went to check out a room in Clinton Hill on the weekend.
From lower Manhattan the train took 25 min to arrive, 25 more minutes to get to my destination. On the way back it took 40 minutes to arrive, 25 minutes actually on the train.
That’s 2 hours of transit time alone – any time I would want to go into Manhattan on the weekend. And that’s not going to a museum on the Upper East Side, it’s getting into lower Manhattan.
So if I’m in my little rental room, contemplating heading out to Bed, Bath and Beyond, or going to an exhibit somewhere, how much easier is it going to be for me to pop in a Netflix and scratch my ass for 2 hours? Seriously, I would need to pack a lunch. Admit it people, you are not heading into Manhattan on the weekends.
as to the Typekey thing:
its a font issue making it hard to see the difference between Ed XOTigre and Ed X0Tigre
the number zero versus the letter O
Babies-
These are not the first gayboys that we have had in ‘Fort Queen/Clinton Hill’. Me and my partner have been here for many years, and yes we’re gay men.
We have been trying to keep this on the downlow, as we don’t want the Chelsea Queens to take over our hood. And now they are hyping up Graziella’s? Geez-I’ll never get in there now and I love that pizza!
Has no one noticed that Pratt Institute is in Clinton Hill and that it has Fashion Design, Interior Design and other programs that tend to attract gay men? And that many of them stay in the nab after graduation. Geeze, it’s not a new thing to have gay men in CH.
You’re insane. There are posts on this blog from what appears to be my typekey account that I didn’t make. In fact, it seems every time I post, that idiot responds with something like “I didn’t mean that”. Someone has access to typekey accounts or is, at least, able to mimick typekey.
I would think Brownstoner wouldn’t be playing troll himself, but that is, frankly, a reasonable possibility. How else would someone have accessed my typekey account?
Folks – it’s time to post anonymously, because this is a load of BS.
Whenever someone contradicts themselves, a troll is clearly present. What’s incredible is that now the troll co-opts typekey names. How is this possible?
Ed, please get your facts straight from now on before you start leveling accusations here. Good grief.
Nor did I write the comment at 5:29pm. Brownstoner, how would someone be able to come up with what appears to be my Typekey address if it looks like it’s working fine? Check the IP addresses if you need to. I haven’t posted at 5:29pm or at 6:47pm.
Something strange is happening, because I never wrote the post at 6:47pm.