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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 actually $2,250,000 not $1,999,999.
Residential Sales [NY Times] GMAP
HOTD: Mixing Modern and Traditional on Sixth Ave [Brownstoner]
Photo by Kate Leonova for Property Shark


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  1. 7:33, you should re-read what you wrote so you can see how off base you sound. a vacant empty building tells the developer that they made a piece of garbage, and should learn from it. as far as the neighborhood needing “more vacant buildings.” what? it’s not like that block is in danger of blight or anything.

    4:11 also added about the realtor’s advice, “I mean a basic logic of a fluid layout at least!!” absolutely true.

    you appear to be the jaded one.

  2. “I walk past this building often, and I have been very, very happy to see it vacant for more than a year.”

    yes, this one was particularly thought out and reasonable, 6:46. just what we need in the neighborhood…more VACANT BUILDINGS!!!

    i can find some other not very well thought out and uninformed arguements, if you’d like….

    perhaps 4:11’s brilliant comment about a real estate office telling builders how to design a building to get a higher asking price, or whatever the hell they were saying…

    shows how jaded you’ve become if you think the above comments are for the most part, well thought out and informed.

  3. Robin- if you did in fact buy it, then you certainly have your work cut out for you. Best of luck.

    5:30- actually, none of the comments above were closed-minded at all. If you read them, they are all well-thought out, informed, and reasonable opinions on this property. And, I must admit, that the tone of these postings has been very respectful compared to others I’ve read about other buildings. I think we all would agree that there are plenty of non-brownstone buildings that are worth paying good $ for.

  4. congrats, robin.

    i happen to like it.

    don’t mind all the closed-minded fools on here that think unless it’s made of brownstone, it ain’t worth 2 cents.

    i’m a brownstone lover myself, but i also think this looks good. glad to hear you’ll be fixing it up some if it needs it.

  5. Hi. Guess what? We bought it. We are fixing it up, doing all the right things and making it sweet. We were from the hood before, we love the new street and all our neighbours are terrific. Just FYI.

  6. Brooklyn properties are real winners, I suppose they have no sense of design or aesthetic sense to make any suggestions to the builders as to how they probably could have gotten the over 2 Mil asking price. I mean a basic logic of a fluid layout at least!!

  7. Ha- well that shows me not to judge a book by its cover.
    saw the photo above and thought to myself- “wow, that looks pretty cool- big floor to ceiling windows into the living room, nice stone watertable and details, OK there are some odd windows- but thats a cool building”. Then I read it is stucco…..
    off to look at the floor plan..

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