Change Coming for Old Bergen St. Buildings?
Call them Boerum Hill’s mysteriously languishing buildings: A few adjoining, dilapidated properties on primo Bergen Street between Smith and Court have been sitting boarded up, apparently immune to redevelopment schemes. They may not be immune for much longer, however, as their owner’s put them on the block for a sweet lil’ chunk of change. According…
Call them Boerum Hill’s mysteriously languishing buildings: A few adjoining, dilapidated properties on primo Bergen Street between Smith and Court have been sitting boarded up, apparently immune to redevelopment schemes. They may not be immune for much longer, however, as their owner’s put them on the block for a sweet lil’ chunk of change. According Prudential Douglas Elliman’s website, 51-61 Bergen Street is on the market for $25 million, and they may be sold along with a rental building right around the corner, the Trolley House at 129 Boerum Place, for an eye-popping $49 million. In the name of due diligence, we called up the Elliman broker handling the sale to double-check on the Bergen Street addresses (which didn’t jibe with the building numbers we recorded while walking by), and were told we had no right to write about those buildings. Oops. Maybe someone’s a little touchy about these listings not generating much interest.
51-61 Bergen Street Listing [Prudential Douglas Elliman] GMAP
Smith street is the border between Cobble and Boerum Hill i believe.
sorry….i just had a good laugh.
thank you, 11:47.
11:21 — you have NO RIGHT to post that link.
I had talked to Vinny of Vinny’s Italian Ironworks across the street some time ago. I understood that he owned or used to own these buildings?
This is the 49 million listing:
http://www.prudentialelliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=809033&rentalperiod=&SearchType=Broker_Current&Region=NYC&BID=MZD
Marilyn Donohue has been a real estate agent in the neighborhood for many decades. I’m pretty sure Marilyn Donohue Realty became part of Douglas Elliman fairly recently.
Actually, 11:08, I walked by there last night and they had listings in the window. I even remarked to my wife about it, since there hadn’t been up until now. But they’re there.
Prudential Elliman is known to be a very, very unscrupulous brokerage firm.
Take a look at their new office on 7th Avenue in Park Slope sometime.
Unlike every other brokerage I’ve seen in Brooklyn, they do not post listings on the outside, so you HAVE to come inside.
Maybe that’s why I’ve never seen a non-broker inside the joint.
Hate the clock and hate the chandellier.
“This [apartment] building is part of a total assemblege….” No it’s not. In between the 46-unit apartment house and the vacant buildings is a property owned by someone else.
At $570/square foot and over a half-mil’ per apartment, this seems a steep.
HAHAHAHA. I love it. Those buildings are classified top secret, a standing gag order has been placed on mentioning them. This site is now subject to daily fines ranging up to $50,000 per day. All hail the end of Brownstoner dot com. What fucking tool of a broker.