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
Clinton Hill Mansion Condos [Set Speed]
I believe this property goes all the way through to Waverly. The parking would be in the back. I also think the Waverly side is the same block as the condo shown last week — and may be the lot mentioned last week to be developed. This property — Jacobean architecture style — has a weird and very sad history of fires and tenant/owner disputes. I remember some gorgeous stained glass windows that were destroyed in the fire. Wish the developer could have brought them back.
Speaking of fires and details, as 1:28 mentioned, does anyone know how homeowner insurance would cover historic details which could be very expensive to replace or emulate in the case of repairing a fire-damaged brownstone?
My husband and I looked at the house about 7 years ago after a huge fire had destroyed any remaining detail. The entire house was either scorched or filled with water (from putting the fire out). It needed a gut reno! At that time they were asking $750K—We thought it seemed outrageous at the time, but we kick our selves for not going for it. Too bad it didn’t sell to a family/ person who would have kept it as a house.
900 sq. feet is small? My 600 square foot apartment is feeling a little inadequate about that comment.
BTW… the unit linked to here is REALLY tiny (less than 900 sq. feet) and some of the space seems less than usable. There is a HUGE garden apartment for sale that has an awkward layout but an amazing garden. Pretty low ceilings on the garden apt too. All in all though, it did not seem too bad, just overpriced.
Woah. Is there parking included in that place? Where is the parking space?
Does the rotten building next door affect the salability of these units?
There is an old C of O for it on the DOB website for three families plus three SRO “rooms”. It was never a mausoleum.
Was this place ever a one family? I heard that it really was a mausoleum.