House of the Day: 202 Prospect Place
There will likely be no shortage of people who fall in love with this four-story, two-family house at 202 Prospect Place in Prospect Heights. (It’s a co-exclusive with BHS and Warren Lewis doing the honors.) The same owner’s been here for the past two decades and, from the two interior photos provided, done a wonderful…
There will likely be no shortage of people who fall in love with this four-story, two-family house at 202 Prospect Place in Prospect Heights. (It’s a co-exclusive with BHS and Warren Lewis doing the honors.) The same owner’s been here for the past two decades and, from the two interior photos provided, done a wonderful job of restoring and maintaining the original details and vibe of the place. The scale is nice too: A 21-footer on one of those sweet 131-foot-deep lots that Prospect Heights is known for. Now, about that asking price of $2,495,000. They’re definitely not giving it away—this would have to be close to a record for the neighborhood. Then again, it’s also probably one of the nicest houses on one of the best blocks. Hard to say, but it can’t be off by more than 10 percent, even in this less bubblicious environment. There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
202 Prospect Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
House Listing #6141 [Warren Lewis]
2:49 your thoughts are well taken but limited in scope – stay focused, it is a fact that most areas of Brooklyn today do not offer much to the middle class and if there are any living in these areas they have been there for decades or are paying high rents (living check to check, my point is that only the rich can really afford these prices and live comfortably without struggling, on a larger scale New York City as a whole will be divided by the Rich and Poor, say bye bye to the middle class,,,
Guest 2:40 (I’m guessing Al Gore), no one was suggesting that 2880 sf is small. It’s plenty big for a family, even with a triplex and rental. What I was saying was that for a house that size, the price is too big. PPSF is just a point of comparison for different-sized properties. If you think paying 2.5 million for a house is the way to save the world, buy it, start an organic fish farm in the pond and a wheat-grass patch on the back deck. Or you could be really efficient, buy a 500sf studio and donate the rest to Unicef.
Probably more hysterical for those of us selling to people from Manhattan buying our places for all cash, 3:11!!!
I laughed a lot. All the way to the bank.
And prices hysterically high.
And for the record, interest rates are still historically low.
I agree 2.49. These were not built as middle class blue collar homes. If you happened to buy when the neighborhood was down in the dumps, then you’d be one of the school teacher mansion owners that rejeuvenated the slope. Now that the neighborhood has improved, prices have increased. Way of the world. Still a heavy discount versus the same house in Brooklyn Heights or Manhattan. Go pioneer in a less desirable (at this point in time) neighborhood. These owners have lived through bad times in the past 20 years and now are going to reap the rewards of their committment of time, love and energy in restoring and maintaining this place. Kudos to them.
2:40….Tell me which other world city you can go to a find what you seem to be looking for without a couple million dollars???
Tokyo? Nope.
London? Not a chance.
San Fransciso? Would be pretty hard
Zurich? Hells no.
Paris? Maybe, but it’s Paris.
Moscow? Hell to the no.
You, my friend are the out of towner. I live and own in Park Slope and couldn’t be happier about it. And I’ve never in my life made over 100K a year nor do I get handouts from my parents. I work hard, I saved money and I try to complain as little as possible about how the big bad world has done me wrong.
LOL, 2:07 give me a break, please tell me where I can go to buy a middle class Brownstone in Brooklyn today! 2.5 million in Brooklyn!! this is purely for the rich, what “Blue Collar Workers” do you know can afford this?? I totally agree with 2:03, and where the hell have you been? everyone knows prices in BK are off the charts and interest rates are not low, you must be from out of town,
If this house is well done (which it looks to be) I’d definitely sacrifice a little interior room for some great outdoor space like this. 2880 is still a nice amount of space and if there are up to 4 or 5 of you, really comfortable. Seems that people have gotten really wasteful these days…Most families I see out walking around have 1 or possibly 2 kids. Yet most people on this blog seem to say that 3000sf is small. It’s really not. It’s quite large. Especially for a city home. And especially for 4 people or so.
Maybe I’m just not seeing the larger familes around and they are who buy these things. Otherwise, we need to start thinking smaller.
Our bodies need to be smaller, we need to use less of water, oil, make less waste, etc. This world needs to get a little greener and starting the conversation by saying that 3000 square feet for most families in new york city is enough would be a good start.
It’s the way of the future…we might as well start doing something now….
Great house, btw.