Condos of the Day: 439 Clinton Avenue
This former mansion on Clinton Avenue has been bumming us out ever since the developers got their hands on it a couple of years ago. For a long time they had some ugly window bars on the ground floor and the doors they chose look totally out of place. (Anyone know how the doors would…
This former mansion on Clinton Avenue has been bumming us out ever since the developers got their hands on it a couple of years ago. For a long time they had some ugly window bars on the ground floor and the doors they chose look totally out of place. (Anyone know how the doors would have made it past Landmarks?) That may sound like nit-picking, but all it takes is one bone-head aesthetic decision to completely throw off an exterior. As for the interior, we hear from people who’ve been inside that it’s a charmless gut. What a waste. In the right hands, this could have been spectacular.
Web Number: M06-2292 [Century 21] GMAP
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A goth kid in the early 80’s would be 30 – 40 years old now.
don’t know about that, most of the buyers of the brownstones in my area of clinton hill and fort greene have been in their early mid thirties, apartments can be a younger crowd…
Why doesn’t Sharon Barnes buy it. She lives next door and thinks she can own the nieghborhood.
A Goth Kid? Now I know i am too old for this site.
Sorry. Only the old can afford Brooklyn.
Please beware of 252 Greene Ave Condos. They are overpriced and have zero equity on a 400 sqfoot condo for 275K. Buyers will not be able to find comps for the area. This is shocking because the area was supposed to be booming. Any thoughts?
1:27: 900 square feet for a two bedroom, 1.5 bathroom, “family” sized apartment is not exactly what I would call roomy. But then again, if you are in a 600 sq. ft. 4 bedroom 3 bath, I suppose you might have some room to disagree. To each his own.
With respect to the insurance/detail question, I went through this a while back as I realized my homeowner’s insurance would be inadequate in case of fire, and wanted to make sure I was covered. Got the insurance rep to go through the entire house counting marble fireplaces ($6,000 @), itemizing and measuring woodwork, tin ceilings,parquet floors, taking pictures of all the detail, and estimating what it would cost to rebuild “as it was” in case of destruction. Needless to say, my insurance bill went up quite a bit, but I don’t want to be covered for just a vanilla gut reno in case the worst happens, especially when I know exactly which craftspeople I’d hire to recreate the house.
I don’t think this property goes all the way back. In fact I think it backs onto the new Waverly “carriage houses” which were featured a couple weeks ago (or a condo in one that is).
The mansion/former church on one side wlll I am positive be renovated. The other neighbors have one of the most beautiful houses in Brooklyn. Published numerous times (although fairly unassuming on the outside). They have experienced alot of pain with this property and deserve some nice new neighbors. Can you imagine the fear of a fire to a row of townhouses!!