Brooklyn Sales: Under a Million
$250K or under: BAY RIDGE 15 Oliver Street, #6G; Price=$154,400 GMAP StreetEasy says this “very large” studio was listed for $172,900 in September. According to public records, it last sold for $285,000 in 2008. Ouch. Maintenance=?. Closed on 12/21/09; deed recorded on 1/20/10. $250-$500K Range: BEDFORD-STUYVESANT 58 Monroe Street; Price=$450,000 GMAP The ad for this…
$250K or under: BAY RIDGE
15 Oliver Street, #6G; Price=$154,400 GMAP
StreetEasy says this “very large” studio was listed for $172,900 in September. According to public records, it last sold for $285,000 in 2008. Ouch. Maintenance=?. Closed on 12/21/09; deed recorded on 1/20/10.
$250-$500K Range: BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
58 Monroe Street; Price=$450,000 GMAP
The ad for this brownstone was short on details. It was listed for $499,000 last April. Entered into contract on 8/31/09; closed on 1/12/10; deed recorded on 1/22/10.
$500-$750K Range: GERRITSEN BEACH
41 Ira Court; Price=$525,000 GMAP
This 3,570-sf single-family was listed by its owner for $549,000. According to the ad for it, the property includes a “heated inground pool.” Entered into contract on 9/23/09; closed on 1/11/10; deed recorded on 1/21/10.
$750K-$1 Million Range: PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS
136 Hawthorne Street; Price=$932,000 GMAP
This 2,300-sf house was a HOTD in October, when it was listed for $995,000. Its sellers purchased it for $280,000 in 2004 and did an extensive renovation. The reader widget guess was $822,575. Entered into contract on 12/11/09; closed on 1/12/09; deed recorded on 1/19/10.
Photos from Property Shark aside from Ira Court, which is from Owners.com.
real Cape Codder’s drink Dawkin Stow-me’s
(Dark N Stormy’s)
LOL!
It would take copious Cape Codders to make that look like a Cape Cod house.
the PLG house is a block outside the HD, which begins on the north side of Fenimore. Bob Marvin is the expert on why it’s so small, but it’s mostly because of the core of 600 single famiy houses that make up Lefferts Manor, with a bit of a buffer zone carved out around it. The original proposal included a few more blocks that were trimmed out in the end (but it didn’t include the 2-story townhouses in this house’s row.)
The first time I was in Gerritsen Beach, within two hours two people used racial slurs to me. Of the “Shhh, fellow racist, don’t let that black guy overhear us” variety.
There are inbred people in Maine too – Jonesport-Beals specifically.
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Is the PLG house in the landmark district? I was wondering why the landmark district in PLG is the size that it is. It seems so small.
Bowl o’ Dicks and Joe and so on… To call a house a “Cape Cod” house does not mean it looks like a house on Cape Cod. It refers to a specific architectural style.
And BoD is very right about the working class-ness of the non-vacation home Cape.
HOWEVER, to call this Gerritsen Beach house a “Cape Cod” is silly.
yeah my uncle had a giant hot stand on the side of the road in the summers, called big al’s hotdogs. i think that was in eastham (im not 100 percent sure)? that’s part of cape cod right? when his girlfriend took me and my cousin to provincetown to go whale watching the first thing she told me was to stay away from the men cuz they were all homosexuals lol.
*rob*
rob is correct. aside from the postcard seaside villages (where the tourists / second homers flock) the cape is very middle class, blue collar. a lot of sub-developments, strip malls, trailer parks even. It is not really commutable to Boston or Providence, so most year round residents are stuck working trade labor, own their own businesses, etc. A lot of cash poor/real estate rich people.
Another thing about year round residents is that it spans generations – people just don’t leave. Much like some parts of Brooklyn (Bay Ridge, Bed Stuy etc). I am the first one in my family to have moved away. (and boy are they pissed that I landed in new york)
Cape Cod’s dirty little secret is that there are a few imbred families that go wayyyyy back to the colonial days…..can always spot them because they’re albino
Dibs that last bit was for you,
OK… just to be clear THIS is a Cape Cod style house: http://bk.ly/bpJ
Simple as that. The house in Gerritsen Beach is just ugly.
wait… i went to cape cod for a few weeks two summers as a kid cuz my grandmother’s brother’s girlfriend had a house up there.. and all the houses were nothing to write home about. i think joe’s right, it could be considered very cape cod.. the one i stayed in tho was only one floor, but did look like that.
*rob*