House of the Day: 24 Cheever Place
A reader flagged this listing on Cheever Place for us, calling it “optimistically priced” and we’d have to agree. Cobble Hill’s purdy and all, but close to $2 million for a three-floor house built in the 1970s with no particular character to recommend it? Pass. And you’d think big swingers Leslie Marshall and James Cornell…
A reader flagged this listing on Cheever Place for us, calling it “optimistically priced” and we’d have to agree. Cobble Hill’s purdy and all, but close to $2 million for a three-floor house built in the 1970s with no particular character to recommend it? Pass. And you’d think big swingers Leslie Marshall and James Cornell would know enough to put up some interior photos, even if what’s there ain’t that sweet.
24 Cheever Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
the lower floor of the lower duplex in the building next door really feels (and smells) like a basement. the conditions are just right for mold. buyer beware.
The BQE noise is a problem if you live on Hicks and for about 3/4 of the first block on either side of the highway (like Degraw or Kane). By the time you get to Henry you can’t hear it at all. But I would think that you WOULD hear it in the back of this building. Yes, I live near there–about 1 1/2 blocks away.
25 people who live near the BQE say its not a problem and there are still idiots who don’t live there that say it is. I’ll go on the record as living a block away (on Tiffany Place) and the noise is not a problem. Also, I hate trying to find a parking spot on this street as there’s about 4 of these houses in a row and they compltely break the street up with their driveways. But that’s my only complaint.
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This property is in Cobble Hill, not Carroll Gardens (as posted above) CG starts at Degraw. In terms or renting it out–it’d be pretty easy to get people with children, it is zoned ps 29.
I say get rid of Hicks St and plant massive wads of trees and bushes. That’s the cheapo solution. The sensible billion-dollar solution is to cap it Big Dig style and build a park over it or sell the “land” created by the capping to developers to ease some of that legendary NYC housing crunch. The ridiculous bazillion-dollar fantasy in-my-dreams solution is to get rid of the BQE, give the land back to its original owners, and tell drivers to kiss my fat bike seat and looong subway tracks. Oh, and piss on Robert Moses’ grave.
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I used to live two door down and I have been in the lower duplex a few times. The windows are all on the garden side (yes, there is a garden, not mentioned by the Smart Corcoran people…!) – The bedrooms are on the lower level and one has no windows, just the two smaller one have windows. I wouldwarn anybody who is interested in it to watch out for termites as there was such an infestation when I last was there (a couple of years ago) that they had actually eaten HOLES in the parquest floors!!!!!!!! As for the BQE noise on that side I would not call it simply a white noise, it is a constant rumble if you sleep on that side… I sleep so much better here in Clinton Hill now and when I was back for a barbecue next door this summer I could not believe I had tolerated it for 6 years with all that moise…. not to speak about the soot collecting on the windowsills as soon as you left a window open for half a day… I loved Cheever Place, but I would buy across the street and not on the BQE side!
2 million is too much. Typical Corcoran overpricing. Their strategy is to look for that one buyer who will pay top dollar. (Even if it takes a full year). But I don’t mind the architecture. There’s far worse out there. Hipper landscaping and a beautiful laquered red front door, small details like that, would make the place prettier.
It is definitely Cobble Hill. Carroll Gardens starts at DeGraw Street.