HOTD: 'Nuther Price Cut at 135 Joralemon Street
We think the owner of 135 Joralemon Street did an absolutely incredible job restoring (and then styling) the former Brooklyn Heights burn-victim and hope that he makes a solid return for his efforts (everyone on the block should be chipping in!). So far, though, the pricing has proven to be overly-aggressive. The house, which in…
We think the owner of 135 Joralemon Street did an absolutely incredible job restoring (and then styling) the former Brooklyn Heights burn-victim and hope that he makes a solid return for his efforts (everyone on the block should be chipping in!). So far, though, the pricing has proven to be overly-aggressive. The house, which in its pre-renovated form went for $2,400,000, has been gradually ticking downward since being listed last summer for $5,950,000. The latest price cut, from $5,250,000 to $4,950,000 came yesterday. Will it be enough to move the 3,200-square-foot house? We have no idea.
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I think this house before the fire and the rebuild had a very pretty, ornamental grape growing out front, no?
Anyone remember it?
It had delicately cut leaves all with a reddish tinge and downy reverse…
I wish I had a cutting of that plant. Oh, well. Guess it’s all gone now.
We have a coarse, sprawling monster of a Concord grape vine…it *does* produce decent grapes…but has massive leaves that get shredded by climbing roses when it’s windy and end up shading everything out by mid-summer.
When I lived in the Heights I used to walk by this house and would think how nice it would be when fixed up. Once I saw this swett old lady on the porch. Something seemed very nice about her so I reckon this house will have a good vibe.
I used to watch another old woman in her apartment above the former D’Agotinos. She had these lacy curtains that I could see from my living room across the street. She’d be up every morning cooking and whisking around the kitchen. It always made me feel happy.
I think there are old people of many walks in the Heights. Quite a few live above St. Charles Jubilee on Pierrepont. Never heard a single one complain.
4:16
You are mistaken.
The price is in line for a 5-bedroom, single family, elegantly restored rowhouse in Brooklyn Heights. Get of the stick you are sitting on. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Small COMPARED to other properties IN THIS PRICE RANGE.
Damn, selective comprehension amongst Brooklynites is getting ridiculous.
135 Joralemon is a three and a half story house on a 25 by 100 lot. I don’t see anything particularly small about it. In fact it is a perfect family house. Many of the later and taller brownstones in places like Fort Greene are cut up inside into a multitude of little cramped apartments. If you think this is small, you do not know what you are talking about. I was inside on two ocassions and I found it not only roomy but incredibly elegant.
The parlor is elevated quite a bit from the street, I don’t think headlights will be more of a problem here than in any rowhouse.
And in terms of complainers and whiners, I think this blog redefines those terms.
First off, that house is too small for comparable priced condos and townhouses. The owner over payed. The house at most is worth $1.5 and that’s for the land not really for the house.
Sidney Place traffic runs directly toward this house, so YES you will have headlights shining directly into your living room. Fortunately, not many cars on Sidney Place. Still overpriced though. Not going to sell until it hits the 3.5 range.
3:29:
I owned in Brooklyn and now own in Manhattan.
I never lost sleep about who had a rent-controlled apartment, who paid what for what, how old/young they were, etc., because I was in my place to live, not worry about the neighbors.
And when I found BH a little too quiet, I hailed a cab on Clinton Street and headed across the bridge to TriBeCa.
That’s what’s nice about NYC: Your neighborhood doesn’t define your options. And your neighbors don’t define you.
U. Designer