Foreclosure of the Week: 1277 Bergen Street
The list of properties up for foreclosure sale this week is concentrated, once again, in areas like Bushwick, Bed Stuy and, in the case of this house, Crown Heights. This 2,600-square-foot house was purchased by the current owner in 2005 for $800,000. It currently has a lien of $672,632 on it. If you’re interested in…
The list of properties up for foreclosure sale this week is concentrated, once again, in areas like Bushwick, Bed Stuy and, in the case of this house, Crown Heights. This 2,600-square-foot house was purchased by the current owner in 2005 for $800,000. It currently has a lien of $672,632 on it. If you’re interested in Crown Heights, though, this is pretty centrally located and we’re liking the facade. The interiors are anyone’s guess. The public auction takes place tomorrow at 3 p.m., 360 Adams Street, Room 261.
Property #118 [PropertyShark] GMAP
800K?? I rememer this house being for sale for 680K…I went in and saw it as I live across the street. Hmm…Also, the block is already landmarked…
Thank you, Nostalgic. Your POV is wonderful to read and makes me remember when I was young and actually loved riding the subways.
Nostalgic, you make ME nostalgic for a time when kids could still get excited by trains and buses…and looked around them at the world instead of down into a tiny screen.
Brownstoner
Bergen Street, as I remember, had first trolleys, then buses on it, so its relative lack of appeal had little to do with Atlantic Avenue, but its own traffic. But this was in the 1950’s. The map shows a one-way route instead of the two-way back then. This may help mitigate the problem — or possibly reinforce it, because traffic on one-way streets tends to go faster. Also, some of the big apartment houses on St Marks Avenue had their parking lots and garage entrances facing Bergen, compromising its residential character.
Still, the Bergen Street bus was one way of getting close to the Brooklyn Museum, the Botanical Gardens, and Prospect Park, making Crown Heights convenient to Brooklyn’s “crown jewels.” If we kids didn’t feel like walking all the way to Eastern Parkway for the IRT (is it still called that, or is it some number?) we could bookend our trips with shorter walks to and from the Bergen Street bus.
I recall waiting with my pals on Bergen to catch first sight of what the transit system proudly called “The 1960 Bus,” the first to have the big picture windows seen everywhere today. (Definitely the Cadillac of its day, when that expression meant something.) As kids, we were fascinated by buses, subways, and elevated lines, so to see these big, stylish numbers rolling down the street was a real thrill. Less appealing were the hard plastic seats inside that replaced the upholstery on older buses. But we didn’t sit much, anyway, because we all wanted to stand at the front next to the driver with his panaromic view. Who needed computer games, when you could ride the bus and enjoy the kinetics of the streets?
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
brown heights strikes again
anyone paying 800k for a house should know wtf is up.
I am not the most familiar with prices of places in Crown Hts. But doesn’t this seem perhaps a bit inflated a price for 2005.
Anyone from that area – what do you think?
Also a bit peculiar that deeded to and mortgaged by one party in 2005 then few months later deeded to someone else (neither have an address nearby) for $0.
Somehow I think this may not be the story of hardworking homeowner/occupier falling behind because of higher rates or losing job.
The house next door looks awesome. Queen Anne neighbor…
I know that this is the area closer to the landmarking, but it always feels a bit tougher, architecturally on this side of CH than on the Eastern Parkway side. For me, it’s because of Atlantic Avenue. There also seem to be some many nice trees over on the Eastern Parkway side.
Is there any follow-up on the last HOTD that was also put up for sale at a foreclosure auction? I believe it was a townhouse in PLG. Anyway, it would be really nice to have Brownstoner provide us novices with details about purchasing a home at auction. I suspecte we’ll be seeing a lot more of these in the coming months (years?)…