House of the Day: 338 Clinton Avenue
When we were looking at yesterday’s house of the day, we noticed that BHS broker Ann Macdonald also has another mind-blowingly beautiful but not inexpensive house on the market a little further east from the one overlooking Fort Greene Park. 338 Clinton Avenue is on one of the grandest stretches in the borough and is…
When we were looking at yesterday’s house of the day, we noticed that BHS broker Ann Macdonald also has another mind-blowingly beautiful but not inexpensive house on the market a little further east from the one overlooking Fort Greene Park. 338 Clinton Avenue is on one of the grandest stretches in the borough and is dripping with original woodwork. In addition, four of its five floors are 90 feet deep, according to the listing, which would mean there’s about 8,000 square feet of living space, as opposed to the 4,400 quoted by Property Shark. So that’s really what it comes down to: At 8,000 square feet, this looks quite reasonably priced at $3.2 million; at 4,400 square feet, it looks like a stretch. Regardless, you’ll want to take a look at some of the interior photos we have posted on the jump. Delish!
338 Clinton Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Ugh, this thread. I’m beginning to get the view of gentrification of CH…whites wanting the houses but not wanting (or their kids) to associate with the blacks who live here. Maybe they hope for Black flight. Except for the black Caribbean mammy. She can stay.
SCHOOLING:
7:57 you just made the one point about schooling that was missing in this discussion: how else do schools improve? If you are wealthy and have the choice of sending your kids to private or public, the public school might be a more rewarding education in the end, for both parent and child. Your presence in that school system — by sheer dint of your CHOOSING to be there — makes a huge difference.
For me, being the child of immigrants, I actually didn’t have a choice: ironically, I had to go to private school, since that was the sole reason my parents worked their asses off — to give me a better chance. Private school represented The American Dream to them.
Today, I have the highly educated, well-off luxury of considering sending my children to public school. And I think I am leaning towards public. But that’s a luxury. I want them to be better in a different way than my parents wanted me to be better.
THE HOUSE:
Please people, explain to me how this is a “mansion” as opposed to every other friggin row house in the whole of brownstone brooklyn. Smells of scam to me. And I agree with the poster who says “dripping with detail” is not necessarily an appealing quality.
And why do you not think I already live in Tribeca, zoned for 234, in a nice big doorman loft? Not everyone who reads brownstoner lives in Bk.
black kids face numerous indignities in white schools. we deal/ because of white supremacy, the idea of suffering white children is too much to bear. (white children beat up black children too in case you thought that only black beast children were capable of violence–think hitler-klan-native american genocides you white supremicist ahistorical hypocrites)yhe fact thatn you have taken over cliiinton hill breaks my heart–it was a beatiful, multicultural, artistic community once! that’s over–long live pig ears!
Anon 2:07/6:23 here – thanks for the positive wishes – who’s the negative one here? I think my kids are adorable, smart, etc. but I’m not vainglorious enough to think that other kids aren’t too and I can’t read the adcom’s minds.
Anon 2:07 here – sorry about the schools rant. Schools have been on my mind lately. It’s the stress of applying to preschools. A gut job – $200/sq ft minimum. That would get you central a/c, new floors, windows, new bathrooms, kitchen, deck, complete reconfiguration of house. $200 is very conservative and involves lots of negotiation and shopping around. $300 is more likely.
Anon 6:23 move to the those school districts then, by all means move to tribeca, good luck in finding a 4,000 sf apartment for under $3.2M.
Your kid will get shut out because you have a NEGATIVE attitude and who would want you around. Admissions officers can sense this, I know in one short blog post! I’d HATE to have you around.
If you really think that private elementary school is the key to your children’s success then by all means do whatever you have to do to send them there. I had a child in a private and we opted for a well regarded public instead because we felt that the private school was grossly overrated. Couldn’t be more pleased with the public school- more economic diversity, racial diversity, small classes and kids from the same neighborhood- a real community. We live in an expensive house and I don’t see how that has anything to do with where we send our chilren to school. How do you think these public schools become good- people actually send their children to them and then get involved with making them better.
I’m sure that all the people buying in to the Meier bldg will get their kids in to St. Ann’s though right? Why aren’t we talking about this house. Gorgeous but needs work. What would a total gut job cost these days to make it look as spectacular as the one that BHS has on the park in FG?