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We’re not yet halfway into the year, but the sale of a Gravesend house that was just recorded in public records could very well end up being Brooklyn’s priciest residential transaction of 2011. The single-family at 451 Avenue S, which PropertyShark reckons weighs in at 2,914 square feet, sold for $10,250,000. Simply on a price-per-square-foot basis this has got to be one of the biggest sales ever in Brooklyn history, though for total dollars it trails other Gravesend sales like 450 Avenue S, which sold for $11,000,000 in 2003, and 2111 East 2nd Street, which sold for $10,260,000 in 2009. And, of course, there are some Brooklyn Heights properties in the borough’s $10 million+ club, like 88 Remsen Street, which sold for $10,800,000 in 2008. Even still, Gravesend remains a world of its own when it comes to prop values. GMAP
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  1. I see McKenzie spewing here as well. It’s amazing how fast you can build a conspiracy/money laundering/arms selling/ whatever based on “a friend” or your many anecdotes. Tiptoe, I have no reason to disbelieve you but I will say, sounds like many another business practice= just look at Wall St.

    As for McKenzie and antidope ( what a misnomer!), well, your words speak volumes.

  2. this is the way it works, there are two cousins both with millions of dirty money in the bank. they call each other or meet at the Deal CC and say: My house in Brooklyn is for sale for ten million dollars and the other says mine is too. I will buy yours if you buy mine. Later that year during their tax audit when asked where the ten million came from, they say “oh I sold my house, I fixed up the basement really nice and its walking distance to the synagogue -that’s very important to us you know”.

  3. I wish there could be a reality show a la Real Housewives based on Syrian families living in Brooklyn. It would be “INSANE.”

    I can’t comment one way or the other on the money laundering thing but I will say a number of BK Syrian Jews came through my law firm’s doors for tax advice on NYS audits they were undergoing (sales tax evasion and income tax evasion). Most own second homes down in Deal, NJ and try to claim their primary residence is there instead of BK, to avoid NYS and NYC income tax.

  4. I know Syrian Jews. They ain’t gonna pay no ten million dollars to be near the shul. I’m sure they find it highly hilarious that people think so. On the Sabbath these guys are either working, or on the links. And in the summer they pack up and go to their big houses at Jersey shore.
    The really religious ones are penniless and have to be supported by the community.
    I had a friend who broke free, his stories were unbelievable.

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