Cobble Hill Carriage House Asks $16 Million
A 10,000-square foot carriage house in Cobble Hill is on the market for $16,000,000, as The Real Deal was the first to report. If it sells for ask, it will set a record for a single-family home in Brooklyn, which is now held by Truman Capote’s old digs at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights….
A 10,000-square foot carriage house in Cobble Hill is on the market for $16,000,000, as The Real Deal was the first to report. If it sells for ask, it will set a record for a single-family home in Brooklyn, which is now held by Truman Capote’s old digs at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights.
An LLC owns the building now, which contains an elevator, a screening room that seats 20 people, a 2,600-square-foot roof garden, an outdoor kitchen, gym, wine cellar and bar. The listing shows only a floor plan and no interior photos. The owner “spent close to $5,000,000 renovating the property,” according to the listing agent quoted in The Real Deal.
177 Pacific Street Listing [Douglas Elliman]
Cobble Hill Townhouse to Hit Market With $16M Price Tag [TRD]
16 million is baller territory and that is not a baller house/location. chop away
“A 10,000-square foot carriage house”
House is 7,500 sq. ft. Can’t count the cellar, regardless of how nice it is, in the square footage.
so, it’s +2,000 smackaroos a foot.
Brooklyn real estate has officially gone bonkers.
It’s now cheaper to buy a townhouse in Manhattan.
“My comment was based on the fact that often times people here assume that if you have money you would want to live in Brooklyn heights” — that must be Minard — everyone else thinks the heights is just for old people and freeloaders in the MitchelLama complex.
The retail scene on Montague has nothing to do with the soul/lack thereof of the residents, but with the nearby office crowd, their tastes, and the rents those tastes command. BH is a small neighborhood compared even to Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill and the remaining retail areas in the Heights (north Henry Street, Atlantic Ave) are basically comparable to Cobble Hill in character though not in breadth. I don’t argue with you that the Heights has a somewhat different flavor as a result, but to say it’s so different than Cobble Hill, or even more to generalize that the residents have no “soul” is just silly.
for 8 million dollars (about how overpriced this place is) you can open your own damn bar/restaurant in brooklyn heights and eat for free everynight. and hire young people to hang out there so you feel cool
I do agree that having a garage/driveway is super valuable. (Not that it will change in any way whether this crazy listing moves.) The cost comparison alone to public garage is worth at least $100K, but add in the convenience factor and I wouldn’t find it surprising that some well-heeled buyer would pay an extra $250-$500K (that’s half a million dollars!) just to have parking in brownstone brooklyn.
I don’t understand your logic. I won’t clutter this thread with a debate over great restaurants/boutiques but even if you assume there are zero in Brooklyn Heights (which I don’t) and assume that they’re plentiful south, or north in Dumbo (I do think there are plenty, which is of course why I live in Brooklyn, but Manhattan snobs might beg to differ), that means these amenities are a 5-10 min walk away. Whereas the West Village might as well be a world away from the UES. The Heights and its brownstone neighbors are far more similar in “soul and true neighborhood character” than are the UES and the WV. Not to mention that the Heights has certain location advantages (river views, subway access, proximity to Manhattan) that just aren’t going away. I don’t know what condo you’re talking about but since they sell for $3 and $4 million in Dumbo and the Heights, don’t see what a $2.85 million sale means at all. Lastly even if you assume that Cobble Hill prices aren’t “capped” by Brooklyn Heights prices, do you really think that the person who then spends $7 million there compared to $6 million in BH is going to really have a different character?