Everything But the Mansion: Fort Greene Mystery
Remember back in February when the famous yellow mansion on South Oxford and Hanson Place (along with a neighboring two-family house and two carriage houses) reportedly sold for $13 million? The preservation-minded breathed a collective sigh of relief when it was revealed that the buyer was not going to tear the house down. Then in…
Remember back in February when the famous yellow mansion on South Oxford and Hanson Place (along with a neighboring two-family house and two carriage houses) reportedly sold for $13 million? The preservation-minded breathed a collective sigh of relief when it was revealed that the buyer was not going to tear the house down. Then in June, rumors were swirling that a Scarano tower was going to go on the neighboring sites. Now Douglas Elliman, which had the listing first time around, has everything but the yellow house back on the market for $9 million. So here’s the question: Did it ever really sell last Spring? Property Shark shows no record of a transaction at 154 South Oxford and still has artist Marc Lambrects listed as the legal owner. We wonder if something went awry with that original transaction. Anyone know the real deal?
167 South Portland Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
Designs for FG Tower To Preserve Mansion [Brownstoner]
So. Oxford Mansion Goes for $13 Mil [Brownstoner]
154 South Oxford Profile [Property Shark]
Katherine Lily basically Had to close her brokerage after she managed to alienate just about everyone in the neighborbood (I have lived about 5 houses away from the former Realty on the Greene for 10 years–and she was not well loved, ever, believe me). Before Tommy’s opened, she was picketted by Pratt Community Council every weekend for months because she was heartlessly tossing a very old tenent and her disabled son out of an upstairs apt in the building, who had lived there for over 20 years (I heard 30 from someone). She was not willing to work with Pratt to give them more time to find the woman a new place to live (which was the jist of why Pratt became so vocal on the matter)–acording to Katherine, the woman HAD to be out at a date certain, and well, that was it. The heartlessness was astounding. And even though she may have felt justified in her own mind, you would’ve thought that she would’ve known better than to alienate a very tight knit neighborhood, especially during a time when some big gun realtors like Corcorran were starting to move into the neighborhood.
In the meantime, all her realtors quit in shame (I knew one who lived in the neighborhood and she was horrified by it all) and so, sheattempst to regroup (by now a neighborhood outcast) by opening Tommy’s, which was, indeed, boycotted by half the neighborhood. But she knew nothing about the resturant business, unwtting customers didn’t return. And all this in a neighborhood in which it is almost impossible to fail in any business (there just aren’t enough). Yeah she failed, Badly. Rice is booming. Even though the food is ho hum.
On an aside, Kathryn lilly was the owner of Tommy’s Blue Corner during the hottest part of the r.e. market then sells it to Rice and goes to work for Douglas Eliman during the slump. Is she some kind of dope…maybe she was smoking her hemp granola from her restaurant days. She obviously has no timing accumen in business. Oh, I forgot, when she was the broker of record at realty on the greene she closed “during” the height of the market to open up Tommys Blue Corner. Again, a very, very intelligent human being here. 🙂
Did it ever occur to you that maybe it fell out of contract?
Why isn’t the house landmarked?
yep, lies!
Katherine Lily lies again! What else is new?
Why isn’t the house part of the package?
I think the agent was overeager when she told reporters that it was in contract and would most certainly sell.
It never sold. Douglas Elliman was renting out part of one of the houses this summer.