Grand Ave Brownstone Conversion Hits Market
When we bought our house more than two years ago, this brownstone on the corner of Gates and Grand was barricaded up, looking like someone was about to being work. Only it wasn’t until a year or more had passed that the crew showed up. As the reno progressed, we were a little skeptical the…
When we bought our house more than two years ago, this brownstone on the corner of Gates and Grand was barricaded up, looking like someone was about to being work. Only it wasn’t until a year or more had passed that the crew showed up. As the reno progressed, we were a little skeptical the windows, but apparently those fears were unfounded. We had heard rumors a few months ago that the building was going to be divided into condos, but it wasn’t until yesterday, when we saw a sign on the side of the building, that its fate was confirmed. We have not been inside, nor have we seen pictures yet, but one broker we know told us that it was extremely well done. The house is five stories, so evidently they’ve been able to create a five-bedroom unit that they have on the market for $1,585,000 and still have room for another decent-sized apartment. The only bummer about them achieving anything close to this price is that it will make it awfully hard for us, as one of the only other five-story houses on the block, to resist the temptation of doing the same. Hopefully Jerry will have some pix up soon!
Grand Avenue Condo [Corcoran] GMAP
“Italianate”
Comp: 25 Cambridge, 4-story, 2-fam, Italinate in A-1 condition, $1.695M Ask (don’t know closed price) http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2005/07/open_house_pick_25.html
If the above condo goes for ask, there’s no bubble in sight.
1:49 is just jealous. one of those types who thinks everyone has the same dreams and desires he does…I own in Clinton Hill, border bed-stuy and wouldn’t move if I had the money. Some of us (including b’stoner, i think) like where we are. I’m guessing he was making a joke about being financially insolvent.
re: condo conversion. great idea. not sure why you aren’t doing this simultaneously with your renovation. but with 3 blogs and a family and…well..you know the rest.
would miss u in clinton hill even tho we haven’t met. yeah, i would go condo, sell and then buy a bigger pad in boerum hill or a hellacious condo within the fulton mall vicinity or one of those grand mansions on eastern pkwy. i was saving eastern pkwy as my grand surprise (i.e., after I hit the lotto) but prices are so out of my stratosphere that i’ll give it to you as a gift. think its one of the most overlooked area in the bk. it’s a really beautiful, grand ave in close proximity to a lot of cultural fares and even better, you would have an opportunity to rub elbows with the uber-rich ‘Richard Meier crowd’.
I think ballin’ was referring to who would have lived in that space at the time the building was built. You can call them “help”, “housekeeper/butler” “girl/man Friday” or whatever you think is a PC term for someone who picks up your drawers and cleans up after you but point is that space originally designed for others than the owners is probably not as well appointed as the rest of the house and therefore not worth as much.
How about “domestic worker that dwells under mansard roof”.
“Servants”? Whether you “have” them or not, there’s gotta be a more pc word out there.
Off topic, weird observation:
For the 1st several posts, that GMAP link sure is sensative.
wow, we still have servant in NYC? Will reserve comments on this one until I see pictures and a layout. Back to making to donuts.