Foer-Krauss Compound Chops Price by $1.5 Million, Relists With More Photos
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have cut the price on their Park Slope limestone to $13,000,000 from $14,500,000, as Curbed was the first to report, and the listing is now with Douglas Elliman instead of Sotheby’s and has tons more photos. This is a beautiful and very large house seemingly in perfect condition (and…
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have cut the price on their Park Slope limestone to $13,000,000 from $14,500,000, as Curbed was the first to report, and the listing is now with Douglas Elliman instead of Sotheby’s and has tons more photos. This is a beautiful and very large house seemingly in perfect condition (and with a birdcage shower, no less) on a double triple lot.
Top-of-the-line Park Slope town houses typically go for about $4,000,000 these days, but this one is huge at 7,670 square feet, so we can see it going for somewhere between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000. Click through to the jump to see a few interior photos. What do you think it’s worth?
646 2nd Street Listing [Douglas Elliman]
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
Photos after the jump by Douglas Elliman
What a dinky master bathroom!
No soaking tub to lay in after sitting at a typewriter all day?
Nice House, but at this price point it’ll be geared toward a Manhattan or foreign buyer especially with Elliman’s firm behind it. Massive yard, but on the downside your neighbors in the apartment building are staring down onto you, not most ideal backdrop. Also the taxes are really suck in comparison to other neighborhoods. I wonder if the emergence of the Crown Heights and B-Stuy market has drawn the prices down in neighborhoods like Park Slope. Why would someone purchase at a premium there when they can do so much more with their money elsewhere? Granted it’s difficult to find your own private park in NYC attached to your home.
This property which recently sold in Manhattan puts the above and the B-Stuy Arlington Property to Shame in terms of original details and exposed wood work, bet Dixon is jealous…. Also I’m sure the taxes aren’t as insane on this property: http://www.trulia.com/homes/New_York/New_York/sold/1252929-436-W-162nd-St-New-York-NY-10032#photo-1
2 hack writers can’t sell their tacky home? Next!
Jealous? Beautiful details to the home. You know the furnishings/decor dont come with it.
It’s actually a triple lot, right? The house is 20×80, and the yard alone is 40×80.
Can you build on the backyard?
I imagine that the owners bought both lots separately – Referring to the rear lot. I suspect that there may have been a freestanding wood framed house on the Third Street side… only a guess though. Not sure how their adjacent neighbor ended up without a yard…maybe an easment???
You can buy reproductions of those showers that look just like the original. Very expensive, but fabulous.
You are doing a great job, Cate.
I wouldn’t mind sharing that shower with Safran Foer.