House of the Day: 147 St. James Place
Holy Moly! This house on St. James Place between Greene and Gates looks like a screaming buy to us at the low, low price of $800,000. This is one of those listings with a minor-league broker where you have to wonder how well they know the market. Even if this place is a complete dump,…
Holy Moly! This house on St. James Place between Greene and Gates looks like a screaming buy to us at the low, low price of $800,000. This is one of those listings with a minor-league broker where you have to wonder how well they know the market. Even if this place is a complete dump, it’s still selling at a 2003 price. The three-family has been owned by the same person since 1988, so we suspect they’ll do pretty well on the sale regardless, but still, $800,000? What gives?
147 St. James Place [Flateau Realty] GMAP P*Shark
I dont understant how its racist to feel more threatened safety wise in Clinton Hill than in Park Slope or Bensonhurst. Facts are facts. I dont care if being white puts me at less risk than being black. Its still more risk than in some other areas. Its a factor to be considered right along with quality of schools, frequency of local train and number of bedrooms. Stop the complaining. Im so tired of the implication that if safety is even brought up as a topic in any neighborhood, it means the person posing the question is a racist. Give me a break.
Anyone who buys this house not knowing it is an SRO is in for a wild ride. Did you look closely at the C of O anon 2:45? Where it says “Class A apartments and rental rooms” that means it was used as an SRO. Try to change the C of O without a certificate of no harassment. Enjoy waiting.
Some of these threats are disgusting!
And there is no institutionalized racism in America? Right??
As a lilly White precious person you are safer in a Black neighborhood “a la Bed-Stuy”/”Harlem” (not for long if you have it your way) than a Black person (despite social economic status) is in a White neighborhood.
In some neighborhoods like Bensonhurst(it’s overt)in others like Park Slope (it’s subtle; they worry about their property values, smile at you and worry to death)
Yeah, I am referring you, the so called “liberals”!!
P.S., I’m not angry just an observation about that sensitive issue Whites don’t like to touch with a ten foot pole.
“screaming buy to us at the low, low price of $800,000” I am fed up with your skewed perspective of what is “cheap.” As a middle-class resident of the city, I find it offensive to assume that everyone who reads this blog would interpret 800K as a LOW, LOW price. 800K is still A LOT of money.
This is also a landmarked house within a landmarked district.
2:45 PM, I didn’t think it was an SRO. I would suggest that anyone who is interested in this property call the realtor themselves to get the true 411. The housing market is still ruthless.
Dan, thanks for a lucid and well-informed answer.
And if the last status of a building was SRO, but is delivered vacant, what are steps then to convert to residential?
I take the G train all the time with my two white children and we are still alive to talk about it!
I take the G train all the time with my two white children and we are still alive to talk about it!