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
the real travesty is what the LONG time residents have done to all of bushwick .
things are improving as they are getting pushed out
I posted above. It is ridiculously overpriced for the area. Artists or not.
It is on Bushwick and Cedar. Having grown up a few blocks away, I know the house well. It is a travesty what the current owner has done to this house, but the previous owners destroyed it. If I recall correctly, there might have been pitbull fighting in the building.
There are many mansions on Bushwick.
Good luck veggieburger. Seems like a risky proposition; paying ‘future value’ for a property in today’s market. I’m sure that property will be worth 2mil someday. Bushwick ave is very broad/wide…sort of reminds me of eastern parkway. And I’m sure that it was once upon a time very grand but…a mil seems to be stretching it. Which trains is this house close to anyway? I’m always skeptical of rentals/sales listing on craigslist, prices are almost always over-inflated.
got it off propertyshark
address is 747 bushwick ave . corner of ceder
last sold @ 365k in aug. 05
If this really is at the corner of Bushwick and Cedar, then that area is not bad at all. Many of the nearby loft building have been claimed by artists recently. And Flushing Avenue, a few blocks away, is becoming their Bedford Ave.
If this house really is located there, then it is a VERY good deal. I am tempted to buy it myself.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/142827298.html……..same house listed higher with another agent… thus open listing
it hasen’t dropped 40 k
it’s an open listing . this guy has it listed lower
It was listed in the nytimes over two weeks ago for $1,100,000. Realism has already set in because the price has dropped 40K. More to come.