House of the Day: Bushwick Battered Beauty
A reader brought this crumbing Bushwick mansion to our attention yesterday and it was love at first sight. The three-family corner prop is at 747 Bushwick Avenue, the area’s “mansion row”. The ad spends a lot of time laying out the mortgage math for potential buyers which always makes us a little suspicious (“methinks thou…
A reader brought this crumbing Bushwick mansion to our attention yesterday and it was love at first sight. The three-family corner prop is at 747 Bushwick Avenue, the area’s “mansion row”. The ad spends a lot of time laying out the mortgage math for potential buyers which always makes us a little suspicious (“methinks thou doth protest too much”) but we’re in love, right, so it doesn’t matter. The two-car garage is another bonus. And if that’s not enough to convince you, the broker’s got the most rocking tie we’ve ever seen. In all seriousness, we can’t make a reasonable evaluation without knowing the environs a little better, so we’re hoping that those more knowledgeable than ourselves will drive the discussion.
Corner Historic Brick [Elliman via Craigslist] GMAP P*Shark
popcorn ceilings are out?
Class and race issues will always be a boiling cauldron in Brooklyn. It’s unavoidable when people from different walks of life collide. Unfortunately, there are those, by nature of their attitudes, resist living in harmony with the long-time residents or with the newcomers. Its an interesting experiment. But it also has the potential to ‘blow up’ if done incorrectly.
a couple of ‘decades’ back maybe
I was hoping that the broker’s “rockin'” tie would be one of those piano keyboard ties. lol
I don’t want to get into the class of people discussion above, but popcorn ceilings and linoleum were not “all the rave” a couple of years back!
Happy Trails, electricgreek1. If you want to be a cowboy, the wild wild west awaits you. Not to worry, if you live in bushwick and survive the incubation period that is necessary for full-blown gentrification, the neighborhood will be restored to its former grandeur, racists and all.
social issues my ass..
bottom line is the long time bushwick residents wrecked bushwick . that’s the bottom line
take shan ..(cambridge reno guy) . he bought a wreck of a house that would of fallen down in a few yrs for over 1 mil . why did that cost him 1 mil ? because of the neighborhood , better class of people .this house might not be in prestine condition or have the best reno job but . it’s in much condition than shan’s. and on a wider lot with a garage . if bushwick resident’s remain the same the neighborhood will never reach it’s full potential
Turns out that our beloved Dr. Cook was a bit of an unseemly character, not to mention a racist:
http://www.pearyhenson.org/dr_frederick_cook/fredlog.htm
(would he classify as a long-time resident?)
looks like Madison Home Equities, Inc.
Who owns Cook’s Mansion?