280 Hicks Up For Auction
As Curbed reported last week, the rundown but beautiful carriage house at 280 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights will go up for auction next Tuesday. The house belonged to Alfred Palmer, who also used to own 135 Joralemon Street and was something of a neighborhood character. The starting bid for the 2,875-square-foot house is $2,000,000,…
As Curbed reported last week, the rundown but beautiful carriage house at 280 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights will go up for auction next Tuesday. The house belonged to Alfred Palmer, who also used to own 135 Joralemon Street and was something of a neighborhood character. The starting bid for the 2,875-square-foot house is $2,000,000, which might be a little aggressive considering it’s a candidate for a complete gut renovation. (Does anyone know what happens if it fails to sell?) Other properties up for sale that day include a Remsen Street co-op and a couple of Bed Stuy townhouses. GMAP
I agree with Ringo that 2M is too much, but that house is so incredibly charming – and in such a great location – that I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes for substantially more.
He owned that beautiful old wooden house at 135 Joralemon?
What was the deal with that house?
A few years ago (3 years?), it was abandoned and boarded up.
It looked like there had been a fire but no one was fixing it up for quite a while.
There’s an old photo of that house in a photo book by Berenice Abbott (the book used to be called Changing New York, but now it has a different title). The photo is probably from the 1930’s. The funny thing is, in that old photo, the house looks very run-down, and there is a “for sale” sign on it. Other than that, it looks exactly the same as it does now. I wish I had bought it then!
– (Does anyone know what happens if it fails to sell?)
Hipsters will move in and pitch tents in the garage.
Love a carriage house. There’s nothing sweeter than a legal and period appropriate curb cut.
“say what you will about brooklyn heights, we’ve always had our share of the most colorful negligent property owners.”
-so true! I think that it may be due to generations of inbreeding among the old brooklyn families. Many of the old property-owning families in and around Brooklyn Heights were totally off their rockers. Ever see the movie “Arsenic and Old Lace”? I think that captured it. Cary Grant is saved at the end with the knowledge he was actally adopted by the family. A great old film.
Of course there is also the possibility of lead poisoning. Palmer’s father was a house painter.
say what you will about brooklyn heights, we’ve always had our share of the most colorful negligent property owners.
also, $2mm is too high for this place
That’s it! Now you have the right house.
When the old man lived there he filled the house with cans and pails of flammable substances -from motor oil to lacquer to oil paint. A miracle the house survived him.
Ha! altervoce, nicely put.
I was only interested in this place if it came with the 1976 Mercury station wagon they hauled away the other day.
According to the Curbed.com photo the house in question is actually 2 houses down from the Fire house
http://curbed.com/tags/280-hicks-street