House of the Day: Greenpoint's Guernsey Inn For Sale
The hotel gods of North Brooklyn giveth and they taketh away. Only a year and a half after purchasing the property for $695,000, the group behind the Guernsey Inn at 158 Guernsey Street in Greenpoint have put the four-story building back on the market for $1,195,000. We’ve never been inside, but it sounds like this…
The hotel gods of North Brooklyn giveth and they taketh away. Only a year and a half after purchasing the property for $695,000, the group behind the Guernsey Inn at 158 Guernsey Street in Greenpoint have put the four-story building back on the market for $1,195,000. We’ve never been inside, but it sounds like this was really more of a monthly boarding house than a place for tourists and out-of-town parents to crash for a couple of nights. Anyone know the story behind the sale? For the curious, there’s an open house on Sunday from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
158 Guernsey Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by A Test of Will
Called the Broker to get a look through this House after noticing no open houses posted for a while. She said it is under contract.
Weird–so now Corcoran is featuring this blog entry as a featured “article” on the house. Too bad they don’t actually link to the comments!!!
http://corcoran.com/guides/index.aspx?page=Article&pub_id=6342
yes, greenpoint is not remotely ghetto. it’s very safe. of course there will obviously be burglaries – but, please look at the crime stats in this week’s New York magazine. ghetto black neighborhoods have way more violent crime. with the economy getting worse, so will the crimes.
A friend was just mugged near McGolrick Park by white teens — they got less than $10 and a cell phone. Since the kids were white, is Greenpoint still “not ghetto”?
9:10 not ghetto means not near a scary project with black male teens that want to rob you or worse. it’s not code for anything. it’s not bed stuy or clinton hill or prospect heights.
it’s very very safe.
Wber,
nyc.gov site says about boarders:
“A “boarder,” “roomer” or “lodger” residing with a family means a person living within the household who pays a consideration for such residence and does not occupy such space within the household as an incident of employment therein.”
Hmmm…so they’re not “tenants” necessarily and shouldn’t have leases like an SRO would, but are basically paying for their stay in a flexible way like a B&B. So it sounds like a B&B with 4 rooms or less plus the owner’s unit (the “1-family”) would be ok.
What does Scott Schnall say?!!!
3/4 the price because it’s 1/3 the neighborhood. I know because I work here every day. The stench from the sewage plant can be caustic at times.
I am also slightly amused to here two comments on how safe the neighborhood is because there are no “projects” and it is and “totally not ghetto”.
This is code word for there are a bunch of polish honkies living here and you would be safe among your people.
1.2 milliion ain’t going to fly, no way no how.
Thanks for the clarification 5:41. Back to my original question – is a B&B legal? “Boarders” in the traditional sense are different than transient hotel use. Which does a B&B fall under?
Yep 10:41 I spoke with the broker and she said the house’s C of O is “One family with 4 boarders.” She said to look online at a house she sold at 272 Berry which has the same C of O, which it does except they call them “4 Roomers” instead. Unusual CO still…