Huge, Historic Henry Street Property Sells
This is big news that can’t wait for next week’s Biggest Sales post…A unique, roughly 100-by-200-foot property at the corner of Henry and Kane Streets in Cobble Hill has just changed hands for $5,400,000. In addition to 200-foot deep side yard (with a large parking lot on Strong Place) the plot includes two double-wide brick…
This is big news that can’t wait for next week’s Biggest Sales post…A unique, roughly 100-by-200-foot property at the corner of Henry and Kane Streets in Cobble Hill has just changed hands for $5,400,000. In addition to 200-foot deep side yard (with a large parking lot on Strong Place) the plot includes two double-wide brick townhouses that, according to the LPC report, were most likely built in 1848. When we stopped by, we couldn’t exactly tell what was up with the property. The buildings, which are architecturally gorgeous, seem to be in decent structural shape, but still look a bit shabby with some of the windows broken. The buyers live in the neighborhood, at 27 Strong Place, and there doesn’t appear to be any sort of development company involved. Anyone know the history of these two properties? Looks like a pretty good investment to us. Update: Lost City has done previous detective work and confirms the site was once a convent. See here for a post about the wall surrounding the lot, and here for a picture of the backyard inside it. GMAP
Minard, why have these houses always been mysterious? And what about the crazy family that owns them? What makes them crazy.
Would love to hear the story.
But that is some lot/s.
Hey Pete, stop volunteering me!
Seriously, they are cool, and it would be a good story. We’ll see…..
I agree that these houses have always been a bit mysterious. I always assumed they were owned by old-line Brooklyn families, crazy as loons per the usual. But I guess they are owned by just one crazy old family.
Because the properties are in the historic district and because they are so significant I assume whatever happens here will be non-destructive.
Really interesting building with odd history. I believe this was a convent for a while. It was also the headquarters for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Before that it was a club for Swedish Engineers. As long as I’ve lived around here this building has looked abandoned on the first floor but there were obviously occupants on the upper floors. There is also an abandoned car out back in the parking lot that is part of the same property, I believe. I’m pretty sure an architect owned it until the recent sale. It is one of the cool real estate mysteries around here.
Damn. I always wanted to build a palazzo on that parking lot.
even with rent stabilized tenants, it’s still sweet deal
All that and you don’t get the pool next door?
propshark shows 18 units. so likely rent-stabilized bldg. So should not qualify for biggest sales.
get montrose on this to search history
does sound pretty cheap.