House of the Day: Sweet on Madison Street
This beaut on Madison Street between Classon and Franklin looks like a score to us. Only a few yards from the the Clinton Hill border, this would be priced 50% higher if it were three or four blocks further west. There are not a lot of photos to go on, but the reno challenge doesn’t…
This beaut on Madison Street between Classon and Franklin looks like a score to us. Only a few yards from the the Clinton Hill border, this would be priced 50% higher if it were three or four blocks further west. There are not a lot of photos to go on, but the reno challenge doesn’t look overwhelming to us. Good bones overlaid with some cheap sheetrock construction that can be easily ripped out. No idea about the mechanicals and plumbing–but we’d assume the worst. The four-story brownstone is currently configured as a three-family but looks to us like it could work well as a owner-occupied two-family or even a condo play, given the extra 1,600 square feet of unutilized FAR.
17 Madison Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
ltjbukem, if you speak to any long time residents of the area, they have been complaining about the methadone clinic for years too. It’s not just the people who have moved here in the last five years. Methadone clinics should not be located in residential neighborhoods, period.
I live on the border (bet. Classon & Franklin) and I totally agree that Bed-Stuy is WAY prettier. Our part of the hood is much more run-down/industrial vs. the pristine brownstone blocks of B-S, but we definitely chose it for the proximity and convenience to FG/CH.
Many of the streets around the Nostrand Avenue stop (Hancock, Jefferson, Macon, Decatur, Herkimer, MacDonough) are just as nice as Stuy Heights and closer to Manhattan and other amenities. You can buy a gorgeous four story there for about $850,000. The Madison St. house is way overpriced with or without Baptists, rats, junkyard and is not really worth being featured.
Yes, discipline, class, discipline!
The Clinton Hill/Stuy Heights comment is a good one. As I have harped recently the CH/BS border is sort of the least attractive of either neighborhood. That said, I wanted to stay within walking distance of BAM, Brooklyn Museum, 5th Ave, Dekalb restaurants, etc. (I have long legs). Those streets in Stuyvesant Heights are sooo pretty, tho.
I think it’s interesting that “just blocks from the Clinton Hill border” should really translate into more money/”better” location. I just don’t see it. Stuy Heights is so much quieter and prettier than this, in my opinion, AND it’s on the A line!
was this about the methodone clinic or the house on madison? can’t you all ever stick to the subject at hand?
Yes, I, too have raised an eyebrow at Brownstoner’s observations about condo conversions this week… Most of these buildings were intended as single family homes. Dividing them into condos (or in my opinion, more than just a duplex for the owner with a basement rental, i.e. multiple rental apts in an owner occupied building) to me just flies in the face of the preservationist movement.
Heroin experts on Brownstoner? Nice!
i also hear that the house next door had a serious RAT problem-could they be in this house too?