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
Anon 3:16. your kids will never get to college if they attend shitty public elementary schools. you will have wasted your money! a good foundation is the key to a good education.
Dear Anon 2:54,
I understand the private school situation very very well as I have kids in one of the best private schools in NYC. Why would your kids get shut out? Perhaps you should apply to schools that your kids can get into. Not everyone can go to Dalton or St. Ann’s. Why in the world would anyone who can afford a $3.2M house even contemplate PUBLIC school in NYC? (Unless it is Hunter, but if you can’t get into the above two schools, you certainly ain’t getting in there.) It doesn’t make sense at all. While I understand that the schools are getting better, they are not there yet and so…private school IS the answer in NYC for parents who are able to do it.
2:07 – and it’s a bit facetious for the black poster who sends her/his kids to St Ann’s to tell me to get off the public school nonsense. If we were a black or Latino family who could afford 25k/year tuition, the privates would come-a-courting and I wouldn’t worry about that or college admissions either. Unfortunately, we belong to an over-achieving minority.
Anon 2:07 back again from a lovely afternoon outside – the St. Ann’s poster doesn’t understand this one fact – I think it’s a great school and the college admissions outstanding BUT I am not going to bank on my kids getting in. Not there or Friends or Packer or Poly or Brearley or Collegiate or Trinity or Horace Mann or blablabla so I have no choice but to look for the best that the public schools have to offer.
The way we dealt with the school/house issue was to get our child into a good private school and then we purchased a house in a neighborhood that we liked, but felt lacked good public school options. It works for us!
Anon 4:21 – it isn’t necessarily being able to afford private school or not but rather what are parents to do if they want to send their kids to private school but their kid doesn’t make the cut or there is no more room?
Anon 3:03 fair enough. You sound like a nice and well meaning-person, so I will let it go at that.
For the record I prefer today’s HOTD over yesterdays. I think it gives the buyer more flexibility from an interior deign standpoint. I for example like the modern furniture & fixtures/traditional home mash-up. But when a house is “dripping” with as much detail as yesterday’s and is so already done-up I think it makes that particular design aesthetic harder to pull off. I know there certainly are other factors to consider but since I am years away from being able to afford either one, my daydreams generally start and end with the interior design possibilities.
They certainly are both unique and beautiful though. Good job B’Stoner.
I am Black and I don’t/wouldn’t send my kids to a all black Inner City School. Who in their right mind would do this unless circumstances required it. On the same token I wouldn’t send my kids to an all white suburban school either. Who would do that unless circumstances required it.
The notion that as parents you will buy a $4MM house in Brooklyn and then not pay the $25K per child to go to a St. Anne’s seem a bit off to me. At that price level there is nothing “priced in” for good public schools. Maybe the $1mm coops have better bids because of good public schools, not $4MM brownstones.
By the way have you seen the college choices of St. Anne’s graduates? Once you see it all of you will get off this good public school nonsense.
3:03 here.
C-Roy, I wouldn’t counsel anyone on what to do with their kids’ education. I think that’s a very personal decision, and what’s best varies from neighborhood to neighborhood and person to person. That’s what’s under discussion here, right? That, and that house on Clinton Ave that I would love to be able to afford.
Anon 3:28, I totally understand. I wish your kids all the best in navigating the messed-up racial climate in this country.