House of the Day: 74 Hicks Street
[nggallery id=”54117″ template=galleryview] The 25-foot-wide house at 74 Hicks Street just hit the market asking $6,500,000 and it’s a beauty. It’s clearly undergone a high-quality (and tasteful) renovation that preserved the old floorboards while spiffing up the kitchen and bathrooms. It’s currently configured as an owner’s triplex over a garden-level rental though with a price…
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The 25-foot-wide house at 74 Hicks Street just hit the market asking $6,500,000 and it’s a beauty. It’s clearly undergone a high-quality (and tasteful) renovation that preserved the old floorboards while spiffing up the kitchen and bathrooms. It’s currently configured as an owner’s triplex over a garden-level rental though with a price tag like this it’s going to take more than a few thousand dollars of rental income to take the edge off that mortgage! As for the asking price, here’s where we stand: We’ve got absolutely no idea whether they’ll get it. Seems like a lot, but this is a fall-in-love-and-move-right-in situation so you never know.
74 Hicks Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
@ By Nokilissa on March 7, 2011 2:41 PM
Good gawd. Did you have bitter herbs for lunch today?
Beautiful renovation, great location, crazy price.
72 Hicks next door needed work, but same footprint/lot, ended up selling for $2.9M (starting price: $4.995M.)
I’d say this one could sell for $4M, maybe $4.2?
I could buy a townhouse in the West Village or Tribeca or West Chelsea for $6M, with Sub-Zero fridges and slate countertops on every floor. It kind of puts a ceiling on Brooklyn Heights.
minard – haaaa! I was reaching for something crass as far as literal “Guest House-house guests”. Kato was the only one that came to mind……
I’m with Minard. It actually just irritates me seeing places like this. Of COURSE it’s gorgeous. When you have a couple million bucks handy to renovate a place, you can afford to make it unf*cking believable. This place just looks like a magazine spread to me. No soul, no heart. Just a TON of money.
And I would have made the entry to the laundry room from the powder room or kitchen so that the formal dining room ain’t the only point of entrance or exit with the dirties. But that’s just me.
(Can anyone tell I just finished the latest Mother Jones? Sigh. Sick to death of it.)
Minard,
Excellent point. No matter how much I fantasize about being wealthy, I still have not thought it all the way through. One does need a trusted tenant in the garden apartment as a caretaker for when being out of town for two months in the winter and the two months in the summer. The rental income would be secondary to the piece of mind.
nycguy7 -haaaaa, good one!
Kato Kaelin? Wow! there’s a blast from the past.
I was thinking more along the lines of Audrey Hepburn’s father in “Sabrina”.
Is this a 25ft wide house with a 2.5ft wide kitchen?