House of the Day: 149 Greene Avenue
This is an interesting house to look at in comparison to yesterday’s HOTD at 15 Lefferts Place. This listing is at a bit of a disadvantage since the broker hasn’t taken the time to upload any interior photos. (We walked by last night and spied a run-down addition in the rear which doesn’t augur well…
This is an interesting house to look at in comparison to yesterday’s HOTD at 15 Lefferts Place. This listing is at a bit of a disadvantage since the broker hasn’t taken the time to upload any interior photos. (We walked by last night and spied a run-down addition in the rear which doesn’t augur well for the rest of the house.) But Greene and Washington is certainly a more central location than Lefferts Place. This cuts both ways however, as there’s a bus stop right in front of the stoop. There’s also a low-end Chinese take-out place a few buildings over. The Greene Avenue house is 4 feet narrower than the one on Lefferts but has an extra garret-like fifth floor. It’s also an interesting comp for the FSBO at 369 Grand which is on the market for about the same price.
149 Greene Avenue [NY Times] GMAP P*Shark
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Mutually exclusive issues 4.14pm. Noise from a playground vs quality of a school. Whether a school is good or bad does not affect noise from a playground.
You all talk how to improve the schools and then you trow stones at houses in front of them? shame on you!!!
The Bull Shippers Plaza Motor Inn, was the full name and it was owned by the same person who owned the other place on Classon (The place with the long marquee.) Back in the day, someone wired the cable wrong over there so that they were broadcasting porn to the nearby neighbors. You’d be changing channels and in between get a brief glimpse of something best described as “OMG – what in the HELL is that cowboy doing?”
Incidentally, “Mr. Bull” illegally installed the lights and the circular driveway (if someone checks I doubt they’re in the landmarks document) at the Graham Home into what was once a lovely ivied lawn with just a sidewalk from Washington Ave.
Actually, it was the “Bull Shippers Inn.” I remember coming home in a cab down Washington around 2AM one night in the 80s and seeing a couple dancing on the unlit front lawn in nothing but high heels and feather boas. The 88th Precinct used to park their cars behind the building on Waverly and go inside for some fun…ah, the good ol’ days…
I’m wrong – it was Bull Shippers, not Strippers – Freudian slip.
Shahn, regarding the Graham Home as a house of ill repute – yeah, that is a vision, but I’m talking about in the 70’s – 80’s, when some of my friends were going to Pratt. The old ladies were long gone. I have no idea how long the place was used that way, but it used to have a large sign right that said “Bull Strippers Hotel” right by the front door.
It’s a weird bodega — one half empty, one quarter toilet paper/soaps, and one quarter canned soups. crazy wasted space.
thanks to houseowax for setting the record straight re the ‘creepiness’ of this block. that’s ridiculous! i live at greene and waverly and unless you get creeped out by being warmly greeted by your neighbors, there’s no creepiness here. as for the ‘odd purveyor,’ it’s what used to be known, in less finicky circles, as a bodega, very handy for the six of beer and toilet-paper roll after hours. you people (some of you) are amazingly delicate snobs.
okay whassup with this listing? it was on the market briefly at under $1m with some smallish agency over a year ago. then douglas elliman had it for much more than that. did the elliman agent ever sell it? did the small agency ever sell it? if so are these all flips? the place needs everything, has some details, is narrow and has a view of a cooling unit for a large a/c in the large ext. in the back for a grocery store around the corner. kind of confusing all around.