Across Other River from Manhattan: Paulus Hook
It’s not everyday you see an historic townhouse for sale on Ebay, so we’ll bend the rules around here and take a look even though it’s located in New Jersey. We’ve been aware that there are troves of beautiful old buildings in enclaves like Lincoln Park, but hadn’t heard of an area called Paulus Hook…
It’s not everyday you see an historic townhouse for sale on Ebay, so we’ll bend the rules around here and take a look even though it’s located in New Jersey. We’ve been aware that there are troves of beautiful old buildings in enclaves like Lincoln Park, but hadn’t heard of an area called Paulus Hook where this gorgeous 1841 two-family frame rowhouse is on the block for a cool $1.55 million. Turns out there was also a small battle there during the Revolutionary War. Point is, though, that it’s closer to lower Manhattan than most of Brooklyn and, from the outside at least, has charm to spare. The interior is gonna need some love but has some decent bones. Did many of you Brooklyites consider Jersey City when you were in the market for a house?
Paulus Hook Row House [Ebay]
Historical Introduction [PaulusHook.org]
I took it over the GW.
Peety-
You left out charge to get it through the Holland tunnel.
If I recall it was just under 100k to move the house from Paulus Hook to Clinton Hill. The house cost me 200k. The lot in Clinton Hill 75K. I sold the vacant lot in Paulus for 45k.
Nice house but I just can’t see myself moving to the state of New Jersey. I’d rather live in my little condo in Brooklyn until I have enough $ for by brownstone.
Is peety serious?
why would anyone move a brownstone from jersey to clinton hill?
But Peety, it must have cost at least
2 million to have the house moved from Jersey to Brooklyn 🙂
is that jersey? that is a beautiful shot.
I purchased a beautiful brownstone in the Paulus Hook area a few years back, and had it moved to an empty lot I purchased for a song in Clinton Hill. The end result was a 400K investment that would probably fetch upwards of 1.6 in today’s Brooklyn market.