Condos of the Day: 4 South Portland Avenue
It’s hard to argue with the location of this brownstone condo conversion at 4 South Portland Avenue. Just steps from Fort Greene Park and located on the quintessential brownstone block, the five-unit project just hit the market at the beginning of the month with prices ranging from $700,000 for a 1,012-square-foot floor-through to $890,000 for…
It’s hard to argue with the location of this brownstone condo conversion at 4 South Portland Avenue. Just steps from Fort Greene Park and located on the quintessential brownstone block, the five-unit project just hit the market at the beginning of the month with prices ranging from $700,000 for a 1,012-square-foot floor-through to $890,000 for a 1,543-square-foot duplex. We’re not digging the kitchen cabinets (big mistake) but the bathroom looks okay if a bit glitzy and they’ve otherwise left well enough alone when it comes to crown moldings, fireplaces and the like.
4 South Portland Avenue Listings [StreetEasy] GMAP P*Shark
I never said I had anything against Taurus’, sam. I just pointed, and apparently correctly, the Taurus/brown suede shoe relationship!!!! They actually make for very loyal companions. But they certainly would not go for anything “flashy” in their countertops!!! 🙂
“scandalously overpriced”
I love it!
***Bid half off peak comps***
I choose honed granite counter tops for my kitchen when I renovated about eight years ago.
I like the functionality. I can put a hot pot down without burning the counter top. I do have to wipe them to avoid smudges, but I don’t mind that.
I will never use granite or marble or slate or any stone for kitchen counters again. They last too long! There is no one material or look that I will want for the rest of my life, yet these granite counter tops will outlast me and my children. I wish I had used a cheerful formica. Then when it got tired or it looked crummy after about 8-10 years, I could, in good conscience, pull it out, replace it and freshen up my kitchen!
BTW, I also had high quality custom cabinitry built for my kitchen. Yhey are great looking and while I love my kitchen, I will be tired of the look before it needs replacing. The next time I have an opportunity to renovate a kitchen, I plan to spend less and be pleased when it gives it up after ten years.
FWIW – I grew up with fairly basic counters, maybe one step above formica, so I’m not exactly clinging to my youth here. 🙂
The wife and I did a bunch of research based on this thread: I like quartz, and I like copper (apparently it gets ugly quick tho), and I like shale (but wouldn’t get it since it’s a bitch to take care of), and I like soapstone, and I like those recycled glass counters … but only in very fine grain, and very white. Hell, it even seems that there are some wood options that are both hygenic and hard to damage.
So it seems like I’ll have plenty of options for countertops if and when I finally buy, and if and when I am unhappy enough with whatever kitchen that I buy, that I need to replace it.
Also, I generally do not care for brown shoes.
Also, I kind of understand why Mr. B doesn’t feature that many mid-priced condos/co-ops … it’s because a huge chunk of them aren’t located in Brownstone Brooklyn. For example, there’s a ton of condos in the $250k-$400k range in Flatbush and East Flatbush, but there aren’t actually that many brownstones in those neighborhoods.
mopar, this is just a terribly mal-timed offering.
Maybe a year and a half ago you could have talked a married making $800,000 in bonuses, into buying some rooms in an old brownstone in Fort greene for a million American dollars, but I think you can forget that today.
An old pathetic rooming house, a firetrap really, luxuriously convreted into four cramped apartments, this is exactly what I hate about the Brooklyn real estate market.
Obviously!
I’m afraid Mr. B is only into the most agressively priced properties in Brooklyn. Some of the properties he showcases are frankly scandalously overpriced. I don’t know why he persists in this. Obviously his blog is going down the tubes, but nonetheless…..who’s to say?
Boys! Enough with the shoe talk. Didn’t you read the scientific study about how wood is naturally anti-bacterial?
“Plus its a walkup, plus its a condo, so who knows who will be coming and going from the other 3 apartments?”
So true, Sam, this is why our ancestors lived in houses.
haha Sam, so defensive over your love of brown leather and black countertops!
I kid. My husband is a Taurus, and I confiscated all his brown shoes shortly after the honeymoon. It all worked out in the end. 🙂
I wish Mr B would shine a light from time to time on mid-priced condos/coops. I don’t want to spend over a certain amount, which in this market forces me into a condo/coop fixer-uper as I need extra bedrooms for all my shoes. I search and I search.
I joke really. I have a 1 year old and I’m still trying to learn all about school districts before we buy anywhere. Lucky for me I have time and the market seems to be on my side…. for now.