House of the Day: Greene Avenue Goodness
We’re digging this 4-story Bed Stuy brownstone and suspect that it will be snatched up quickly. The house appears to have all its original details in quite good shape, from the gorgeous parquet wood floors to the dark-stained molding and wood paneling. The parlor floor ceilings also look to be extremely high. We have no…
We’re digging this 4-story Bed Stuy brownstone and suspect that it will be snatched up quickly. The house appears to have all its original details in quite good shape, from the gorgeous parquet wood floors to the dark-stained molding and wood paneling. The parlor floor ceilings also look to be extremely high. We have no idea what the rest of the block is like though, but at $699,000 (or about $200 a foot) this is sounding like a pretty good deal to us. Has anyone been inside yet?
770 Greene Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP
I’m a little ignorant, what’s a home estate?
Truth in advertising sometimes lends itself to understatements, or Corcoranisms in the NYC real estate market. In this case, as another poster mentioned, the most obvious Corcoranism is the part of the listing that states “occupied rental.” I was intrigued by the ad, and when I followed-up with a Corcoran broker I was told that the tenant has a life estate that could probably be purchased for somewhere in the area of $600k. Hope you are digging that house in the ghetto for $1.3. It’s a steal.
Tacking onto Anon 5:00 and 5:30’s lists, every NYC neighborhood I’ve ever lived in has put me within stone’s throw of public housing: UES, Chelsea, EV/Stuy Town, Boerum Hill. And these are all SAFE and EXPENSIVE ‘hoods. So I guess my point is, so what? Also, it’s patently untrue that everyone living in the projects is at or below the poverty line. Simply.Not.True.
hmm @ anon 4:52 as a resident of bedstuy I take offense to that. there’s nothing wrong with bedstuy, I live in stuyvesant heights and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. bedstuy is beautiful but then again I’m not opposed to living near people ‘who are below the poverty line’. I’m familiar with that area, (I was the original poster who brought up the 2-fare zone) and there’s a police station within a reasonable distance of this area so if you’re implying that just because people ‘live below the poverty line’ that they’d want to take something from you (who is obviously more fortunate than those of us who aren’t good enough to live outside of bedstuy) then maybe that should be taken into account.
A friend of mine lives on the same block as this house, and tells me that about 75% of the block is owner occupied, and becoming more so each day.
Her daughter is enrolled in Pratt’s children’s program and they walk it there every Saturday. Block is not too too bad, but it’ll get better.
Exactly. Yeah East Village, yeah Chelsea. Sorry, but the list goes on.
yeah Clinton Hill, Carrol Gardens, RedHook, Harlem, Fort Greene. yeah, Brooklyn. yea, New York City.
700,000 to live right near the projects. All your neighbors will live at or below the poverty line. Yeah BedStuy.
700,000 to live right near the projects. All your neighbors will live at or below the poverty line. Yeah BedStuy.