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
Social issues are more complex than that. Everything is not as black and white as you would assume. You’re right but you’re also wrong.
I hope you don’t live in Bushwick with that type of attitude; otherwise, your ‘education’ awaits you.
i’ll respect them as soon as they respect others and the neighborhood they helped destroy . like it or not it’s people like myself and my tenants that help bring a neighborhood back .
why does bushwick have such a bad name? could it be the fire hydrent on the corner? NO . could it be the the fence on the next guys house? NO. oh i know ! it’s the pot hole in the street right? NOT ! face it the long time residents have made bushwick the mess that it is now . like it or not it’s the truth . PEOPLE make neighborhoods bad .
electricgeek.
styles change over time. The adaptations that you make to your apt. will no doubt be considered cheesy a decade from now. Popcorn ceilings, carpeting and linoleum floors were the rave a couple years back. Hardwood floors were out. Now their back. I hate popcorn ceilings…really dated. But my nephew, who is 12 years old, think that its really ‘cool’. So I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes back in fashion 10 years from now. Have a little respect for the people that you’re “pushing out”.
Maybe some day someone will buy Cook’s mansion and restore it to its former glory.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bushwick/bushwick.html
Well, we do dig the tie in an ironic way, though it’s unclear if that’s how it’s being worn…
hey 2:03 pm…the dealbreaker is that its $1MM in Bushwick…noise shmoise.
I saw it two or three weeks ago. It feels like a standard flipper, the kitchen is bad, there are too many little rooms. The light is great, though, windows everywhere. It feels like a traditional family house, with some garden area and a huge deck off the second floor. That turret is actually the prettiest thing about the house, and made my heart leap — it emphasized the banality of the rest of the house. As I came back downstairs, all I could think was: Suburbia.
The area is very very quiet, rugged in the commercial area walking from the M train, but sweet around the house.
the realtor is awesome! And cute!
NOW here’s the deal breaker: It’s very loud along that street. No matter what you do to replace the cheesy new floors or bad kitchen, you can’t make bushwick ave quiet. IT’s like a highway .
Brownstoner, were you being sarcastic about the tie?
wait…are they paying the buyer $1mm to live in bushwick…lol…can we please stop saying that $1mm is a good deal simply b/c it is in brooklyn. no house should cost more than $400-$500K in bushwick…period. this is insane.