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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What gives as far as renovation needs on this property? Is it trashed, or only semi-trashed? Part of me likes that it has one side with no party wall; since we moved here ( after a long line of tenement rentals) I’ve been forced by complaining neighbors to live like a monk- no more rocckin’ at midnight!
Now that I know about that hotel, I’m putting my foot down: no more stray hookers sleeping at the foot of my bed- they’ll have to rent a room like everyone else.I’ll still leave out a saucer of milk for ’em, though- I guess I’m just an old softie.
I agree house of wax. My main concerns would be the work needed to fix the house up and the bus stop/playground noise. If your ok with those two points, it would be a good buy.
I live around the corner from this joint. I’d call it decidedly NOT creepy -all of CH is pretty sleepy when the lights go down, but no more so on this corner than anywhere else. In fact,it’s a pretty major intersection and less likely to hide mean and nasties in the shadows than many of the adjacent side streets.
I have no idea about the hotel.. I always assumed it was an ‘extended stay’ kind of place, like a SRO. Never struck me as a ‘hot sheets hotel’, but I’ve passed it a million times and never even given it that much consideration.
Lastly, the building is around the corner from a large grocery, dry cleaners, and public library. And 2 blocks to the C train. Those of you attempting to paint the location as the seventh circle of hell are pushing it a bit, methinks.
You should have been in Clinton Hill when the Graham Home For Old Ladies on Washington was a hot pillow joint, as was the huge PACC renovated mansion on Gates. Must have been something in the water, but then they don’t call it the world’s oldest profession for nothing.
Yes the Washington Avenue hotel is a short-term hotel which rents rooms to prostitutes and drug users (perhaps others live there as well. Similar place on Classon and Lefferts tho.
Not a great house or a great location, but certainly not that creepy of a corner–Greene gets regular car and foot traffic, as do the stores there.
Grand/Putnam, Grand/Clifton Place, and Waverly btwn Greene and Lafayette (at night) are much higher on the creepiness scale IMO!
lol
go in and book a room and see what happens
More than anything, I wouldn’t dig the neighbors who have cardboard signs all over the place directing their tenants to use the (many) trash receptacles out front. Note that the builiding catty-corner on Waverly (the odd purveyor of cleaning products and food) is for sale, and maybe something nice will move into the storefront.