House of the Day: Cranberry Has The Sauce
Unless we’re missing something (which is entirely possible!), $3.2 million seems like a solid price for a very charming Italianate brownstone only a block from the promenade in prime Brooklyn Heights. And while the floors and cabinets in the newly renovated ground-floor kitchen ain’t exactly our thing, the house looks otherwise beautifully done. The more…
Unless we’re missing something (which is entirely possible!), $3.2 million seems like a solid price for a very charming Italianate brownstone only a block from the promenade in prime Brooklyn Heights. And while the floors and cabinets in the newly renovated ground-floor kitchen ain’t exactly our thing, the house looks otherwise beautifully done. The more we stare at the pictures and think about the price, the more we wonder whether the house might be on the narrow side, but with no address (argghh!) we can’t do the legwork to find out. Hopefully someone in the hood can give us the straight dope.
Addendum: We just came across the same listing on Corcoran so it looks like a co-broke, folks. Worth checking the Corcoran site for additional pictures.
Cranberry Street Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Cranberry Brick Townhouse [Corcoran]
It’s amazing around there in the Spring. No other place like it so close to the city.
Cranberry Street is really a cute street. None of the houses – or the lots – are the same. In fact, all the fruit streets (Cranberry, Orange and Pineapple) are pretty extraordinary – as somebody pointed out, just five minutes from Wall Street and hardly anybody knows they’re there. It’s unusual to see two properties on the street for sale at any given time. The building you’re talking about here is in the middle of the second block – it’s small but very charming.
I live in a garden level apartment that looks out into the back of 38 Cranberry. Unless you lived on either Hicks, Willow or Cranberry on the block that 38 Cranberry is on, you just wouldn’t know how lovely it is in the back yards.
There are huge mature trees, one of which is an old cheery that blossums beautifully in the spring. Birds sing. Squirrels jump around. I’m continuously amazed how tranquil it is and just 5 minutes from Wall Street. I wouldn’t trade this spot for any in NYC. I just hope my landlord doesn’t read this 🙂 He may raise my rent!
Just hitting the Corcoran website on Cranberry Street is the Moonstruck house for $5 million. It’s a much larger house than 38 Cranberry and it has parking for one car. At $3.2 million, 38 Cranberry is an entry point for someone that wants to live in a single family house in a beautiful part of the North Heights. The Moonstruck house probably needs some updating (I don’t know for sure because it just hit the market), but it is a very special property and probably worth close to the $5 million asking.
hey anon 6:57 – it would be prudent for you to be open to understanding and appropriately using the real estate terminology critical to those who frequent the site(no I don’t mean the trolls just waiting to flame people but rather real owners, buyers, sellers and keen watchers).
I find babs(what firm are you with?) to be annoying and overblown, but hey, I am sometimes and so are you. Let’s cut the wasted effort and open our minds to each other rather than rant and flame.
I am a veteran broker (not the stuffed shirts at BHS mind you) and really know brownstone Brooklyn like the back of my hand. Brooklyn Heights fits on a pinky nail with room to spare. There are few real quality brokers out there, find one and listen. FYI – Kim Soule at corcoran is a doll and a very good honest broker. Anyone here, including brownstoner could call her for the nitty gritty, she’s one of the few “good guys”. I don’t currently work for either of the co-exclusive firms but have sold several properties on Cranberry.
This is one of the most quaint areas of the Heights…if you have little ones, Plymouth PreSchool-Kindergarten is quite frankly the most ideal experience one could ask for their child, speaking from personal experience. It’s just around the corner fronted on Hicks with the playground on Cranberry. You might think uncool to be next to a school but I can tell you this is a treat whether you have/want kids or not. An offer at $2.7M would be respectable and, if the seller is real, will open a quality negotiation.
Here’s one last little free piece of useful info for the BStoner and the troll anon 6:57. Anon 6:57, if more cynics like you would pay attention and attempt to learn you’d help everyone else stop perpetuating terms being thrown around all day in error.
Now the free piece – corcoran.com (they are aware) provides every address of every property listed at corcoran. Go to the property’s listing page where you find the description and ‘point’ your cursor at the “map” link – while hovering the address is shown clearly in the status bar at the bottom of the browser.
Bstoned…come on, you anoy the hell out of me sometimes but I think I’m warming up to you…surprised you didn’t discover this yet!
….and to come full circle, “due dilligence” is terminology in a real estate transaction used by attorneys to define specific steps taken but the excellent attorneys I recommend will tell you that they don’t own the term. Anyone, including Mr.&Mrs.B, can do their due diligence on something. back to the earlier troll 6:57 so you’re not confused – it is better form to apply terminologies acurately and appropriately – but not worth wasting half the thread.
I remember when we were houseshopping nine years ago we saw the small detached home on the south side of this block with a side yard that was going for 550k. It was a one-family, and we couldn’t swing it without some rental income, but it would have been a very livable house on a magic block. It almost feels like a New England town 10 minutes from Wall St.
Why bother correcting real estate terminology on this site? Terms are thrown around all day in error.
It is 38 Cranberry and it is a co-exclusive, not a co-broke. A co-broke is when the exclusive broker for the residence being sold shares his/her commission with the buyer’s broker. In this case, it’s the listing that’s shared between Corcoran and BHS — only they have the right to sell the place.
And part of the Hotel St. George is a college dorm, part is the studio building, and part is the St George Tower (111 Hicks St), converted to co-ops in the early 1980’s.
In any event Cranberry St is far away from all of them — the St George building is between Clark and Pineapple (and the dorm entrance is on the Clark St side), which is followed by Orange and then Cranberry, so no fear of running into any unsavory students (and they actually don’t seem so here).
Narrow or not this house is on one of the most charming blocks of the North Heights — or anywhere else!
The Hotel St. George is a college dorm which I had the pleaure of staying during my Freshman, sophmore, and junior years. We were well behaved. Whom ever buys that house would most likely have no problems. No boozing and puke all over peoples property for those students.