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PARK SLOPE $1,850,000 519 Sixth Avenue Updated 2-family house; primary duplex: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths; simplex: 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths; 20-by-81-foot lot; taxes $2,600; listed t $1,999,999. Broker: Brooklyn Properties of 7th Avenue. NB: As you can see from the post we did on this place back in April 2006, the original asking price was…
PARK SLOPE $1,850,000
519 Sixth Avenue
Updated 2-family house; primary duplex: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths; simplex: 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths; 20-by-81-foot lot; taxes $2,600; listed t $1,999,999. Broker: Brooklyn Properties of 7th Avenue.
NB: As you can see from the post we did on this place back in April 2006, the original asking price was actually $2,250,000 not $1,999,999.
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Right on Robin. I’m sure your efforts will be rewarded. Don’t let the Brownstone Nazis get you down. Great to have you in the nabe.
Robin,
Good for you! Everyone is entitled to their own opinions regarding tastes in renovations but it gives them no right to make nasty comments about your new home. I think the house looks great from the outside, a real breath of fresh air in the area! Congrats and enjoy your new home 🙂
Not sure where all this venom comes from, but since some was directed at me, I’ll dive into the quagmire and respond. This house is hardly deserving of such attention, and it’s probably not a wise decision to have identified myself to a small subset of hostile people [who post anonymously!], but here it is, for those who have some vague degree of interest:
– For “anon†on June 7, at 12:21, who seems to have asked a rhetorical question. The flower pots and sign are interim steps to help our new mom tenant feel cheerful and as though she has an address while we have not moved onto outside work yet. I find it really weird that these seem to have offended you – so be it.
– To the person who asked me where I am from, and why we spent “so much money.†I’ve been here for 7 years. We had been looking at all sorts of stuff to buy for more than 3 years, and this was not a rushed decision. We spent from October until end of February in very deliberate negotiations, with three sets of contractors bids, with engineers and architects helping us to make up our minds – and found that for the most part that work invested has helped us enormously as we move ahead. The finishes the seller chose were not to our taste, and clearly some of the end work was sub-par – but that is less significant than most of the solid foundational work and what is to us a great space with lots of potential. The price tag is expensive — but absolutely, hands down, no more relatively, and actually less, than any other places in the neighbourhood. It’s all the same! There are no deals, only decisions about what one wants to live with (and in). Not that there haven’t been surprises – but that’s always the case.
The construction of the building clearly offended many – which really is too bad and I think about this – but that wasn’t us. And hopefully a more valuable thread will come along to eclipse this non-story.
Thanks,
– Robin
2:50: since you asked, this reminds me of tht peice of crap that the mediocre fancy artist erected on the corner of S. Portland and (I think) fulton.
As well as that POS that’s been sitting on the market i Boerum Hill forever, recently featured on this here site as a cold, ugly, boring Dwell-design victim.
making nasty remarks to someone who just spent a lot of money on a home is beyond tasteless.
do you have no respect for yourself or other people? jesus.
hope none of you work for the suicide hotlines.
“the right thing” would be to tear it down.
Are the boring flower pots and the country road address sign part of making it “sweet”?
Robin, may I ask where you are from? Why spend so much money on something obviously cheaply made? ALL houses wind up moneypits, but why buy one that starts out that way?
thanks 8:10, i mean 4:11.
haha.
not jaded here, just no need for all the negative comments for the sake of being negative. since when do brokers design the layout of a building?????
i don’t agree about the vacant buildings. while park slope might be doing just fine in that area, vacant buildings are not a plus for the neighborhood in any capacity. to suggest so is pretty idiotic. i don’t think the developer needs to learn a lesson. i happen to think he/she did just fine.