House of the Day: Woodframe on Middagh
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential,…
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential, especially given the extra-wide lot, driveway and carriage house, is amazing. With an asking price of $2.395 million, it looks to us like you could put close to a million bucks into fixing this place up and be in a decent place investment-wise. Do others agree or has old Brownstoner lost his marbles?
72 Middagh Street [Corcoran] GMAP
I just can’t stop – this prop also has a FAR of 2-2.9. At 3000sf you could still add 4500sq? even under L.M.? THAT’S HUGE.
what I actually meant to say was,”offer 1.9 and fix up the facade”, but then I looked and saw – could this be true – that the city’s estimate of the prop value IS 2.3MILLION (values are typically low!). Look at the taxes – 8K.
These old timer’s are probably having a time of it in this ecomony. 2.3 is likely not as sweet as it sounds – not that that’s an excuse…
this building, according to the city & pshark was designated for landmark in 1996. it has an open violation for the spiral staircase as seen in the pix @ corcoran.
Still, the interior look to be the victim of bad photography and lighting more than aethetic crime. My building can get that “greasy yellow film” in bad photos too, but its a good spot. Betcha its more 40 watt than anything. Redo that exterior and some minor stuff and you’ve got a gem – if you got the dough… that is. (I don’t)
Edit: I meant to say Washington St instead of Perry St.
re the landmark issue, I think this is a case of the broker’s jumping the gun. I looked on DOB BIS site and saw that the landmark box isn’t checked off. Next, I downloaded the BH landmark map and saw very clearly that #72 Middagh falls under the landmark jurisdiction. It’s a rather common oversight due to database glitches at DOB that not all boxes/designations are properly labeled. However, just because the “landmark” box is checked DOES NOT MEAN the house isn’t landmarked. DOB and LPC will catch up on this discrepancy eventually, so buyer beware. LPC is very clear on their position that all buildings inside the designated map falls under their jurisdiction, NO EXCEPTION.
I had an identical experience with a brownstone in GV, and it was my architect (of all people) who insisted that my house wasn’t landmarked because DOB didn’t show the designation. Lo and behold, after permits were filed, DOB updated their records and now it shows the house as landmarked. Seriously, the architect’s stupidity would have cost me hundreds of thousands dollars and 4 mos in delays. All I had to do was call LPC and asked if such-and-such house is under their jurisdiction, and the woman goes, dude, the entire GV up to Perry St is landmarked.
I hate it when that happens, when you try to post anonymously and end up posting with your normal Brownstoner name, and it ends up looking like you are arguing to support your own argument…
since it says it was a former schoolhouse, what exactly would you restore it back to? also, where is the carriage house located, in the back on on the side…it’s hard to tell from the photos.
Now if you really wanted to see uncivilized you should have read some of the threads on the old house web. But thanks for the humor, Amy. You made me laugh because you were so right!
oops- my evil twin posted first but we stand by what we- er- I said. 🙂