Co-op of the Day: 110 Hicks Street, Reduced
Even blue chip nabes get the blues. This duplex in the brownstone at 110 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights was on the market with Citi-Habitats in late 2006 along with the apartment above it for a combined $2,850,000. It didn’t sell at the time, and the units showed up separately (with the option to combine)…
Even blue chip nabes get the blues. This duplex in the brownstone at 110 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights was on the market with Citi-Habitats in late 2006 along with the apartment above it for a combined $2,850,000. It didn’t sell at the time, and the units showed up separately (with the option to combine) this fall. The larger, lower duplex was originally asking $2,400,000. After two months of no takers, however, the asking price was cut to $1,990,000 right before Christmas, bringing the combined price basically back to where it was in ’06. Here’s what we said about it at the time:
Granted it’s in prime Brooklyn Heights and the interior is nothing to sniff at, but it doesn’t have that somethin’ special (over-the-top historic detail, for example) that we think you need to justify that price in this configuration. We think it’s going to be hard to find someone with that kind of dough who wouldn’t prefer his own house.
Don’t see any reason why that logic wouldn’t still hold.
110 Hicks Street, Unit 1 [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
110 Hicks Street, Unit 2 [Douglas Elliman]
Co-op of the Day: ‘Spensive on Hicks [Brownstoner]
Kitchens in both apts are poorly done. sure the appliances are nice and shiny, but they both defy the classic “U” configuration.
I actually like having the bedrooms on the ground floor and the living space on the “grander” parlor floor. In a duplex, seems like it would be a waste to put bedrooms on the parlor and have to live in the lower-ceiling ground floor? We’re renovating a duplex now and that’s how we’re setting it up.
The world must be ending if a duples is “on;ly” $2.0 million?
Actually, this property has been owned for years by the owner. Priced too high? The broker, who now has the the listing, gave a price she knew would guarantee that she obtained the listing. She knew the property would not sell at the original asking price as it needs work. Accountability belongs with both the owner and broker. The owner has been completely unrealistic – twice. Greedy owner and broker. Waste of time for all parties involved.
I own a car and I use it to run down the people all over Park Slope. Extra points for the Food Co-op trash, Slope moms capable of reproduction and any and all children in strollers.
It kind of is, yes 9:08! Most people in Brooklyn have to drive around and around looking for street parking. Some neighborhoods simply have no garages at all. Park Slope has what, one on Union Street and that’s it.
Hey people–most everyone who lives in Manhattan and owns a car parks it in a garage. Is this concept so foreign in Brooklyn????
You would be surprised how many people own cars in Brooklyn. I’m not an advocate of owning cars; I’m just pointing out what I learned only recently. Almost all our neighbors have cars. It’s often people with kids in private school outside their neighborhood, and people with summer or weekend houses or who leave the city on daytrips a lot. And obviously people whose work requires hauling some stuff around, like in design or architecture. I agree with the Clinton Hill lady. If you know for your lifestyle you’ll want to own a car, consider parking along with everything else when it comes time to buy. Look for a garage to rent nearby, something. There was that NYC study in 2007 that said at any given time 50% of the cars driving around Park Slope were merely looking for parking.
has anyone heard of garage condos? I heard there were a few throughout the city.