House of the Day: South Slope Frame
This South Slope frame house sure is purdy. The four-story, two-family place looks to be in excellent shape and chock full o’ architectural details. The config is owner’s triplex over garden level floor-thru. The rental generates $1,850 a month. Our emails to Betancourt went unreturned so we don’t know the address, but this should be…
This South Slope frame house sure is purdy. The four-story, two-family place looks to be in excellent shape and chock full o’ architectural details. The config is owner’s triplex over garden level floor-thru. The rental generates $1,850 a month. Our emails to Betancourt went unreturned so we don’t know the address, but this should be a pretty easy one for readers to figure out. Without knowing a little more about the location, it’s hard to comment on the $1,450,000 asking price.
South Slope Two-Family [Betancourt] GMAP P*Shark
Everyone needs to get over the tree and leaf talk….There are many trees on 11th and not a depressing area to live at all..
Leaves and trees don’t make a neighborhood
good neighbors do. Maybe less leaves mean less stuck up yuppies….Lets keep it that way. Would live on 3,4,5,6 over 7th and higher anyday……
I have Irish friends who were born in the nabe, 70 years ago, and they still call it Gowanus. If they ever turn 4th Avenue into a tree lined boulevard then maybe I would think about the area. Right now 4th Ave is only a little better than the Prospect Expressway in the hostile way it cuts through and divides neighborhoods. When the AY project gets going the increased traffic will choke 4th Avenue. The house, is fantastic though.
The additional space was never built so it comes out to 2400sf or $604/sf which is quite high, especially for Gowanus.
Yeah, most of these frame houses seem to have been built from the 1890s onward, whereas brownstones were built largely during the previous period between the 1840s-1890s (exact opposite of what anonymous 3:46p describes).
My South Slope frame house was built in the 1890s. I actually had an accepted offer on a similar (though less beautiful) house on that 11th St. block for about $200K in 1997 or thereabouts, but the seller backed out. It is a pretty block, but the surrounding area is not so pretty.
no. not all post 1900. I think most if not all would be pre-1900 (at least in this area of Brooklyn and attached).
The frame houses are all post-1900, no?
Interestingly, a lot of the blocks below 5th Ave around this area (11th St thru, say 15th) has many wonderful wood frame houses. Many more than you see in Park Slop proper. Perhaps because PS was built as a kind of development, and these wooden houses are older?
I think this house is adorable and the reno beautiful, but I find the immediate neighborhood depressing. And I’m not talking lack of amenities, either. There’s not a lot of shade which feels oppressive in the summer, and a really don’t like the lack of architectural unity on these streets. You have a gorgeous house like this one, then lots of siding over flat surfaces that look, basically, like shacks (I dislike a few of the WT streets for this reason as well). We were looking to buy while living in PS about 4 years ago. This nabe and others across the park, which are far leafier, were the same price range. We opted to move across the park because aesthetically this neighborhood is just not terribly inviting.