House of the Day: 121-123 Fort Greene Place
It’s not often that two adjacent houses come up for sale at the same time, let alone ones that are identical twins, so this new listing at 121 and 123 Fort Greene Place in, you guessed it, Fort Greene is worth taking a look at. The houses don’t have stoops, but they do have plenty…
It’s not often that two adjacent houses come up for sale at the same time, let alone ones that are identical twins, so this new listing at 121 and 123 Fort Greene Place in, you guessed it, Fort Greene is worth taking a look at. The houses don’t have stoops, but they do have plenty of original detail. Judging from the pics, though, and the fact that both buildings have been under the same ownership for at least three decades, we’re betting that they’re going to need some work. While not a park block, the location is super convenient. The combined asking price of $2,724,000 doesn’t sound like a reach to us, but we suppose it’ll all turn on how much work needs to be done. If that number’s beyond your each, the two buildings are also for sale separately, though we hear that there’s been plenty of interest already.
121-23 Fort Greene Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
It’s one of the few blocks that you can’t get google streetview. From the pic it looks like there’s only one entrance so buildings may already be combined? Listing doesn’t mention # of units or show floorplans.
I believe it’s owned by a non-profit corp and set up as transitional housing for addicts
http://www.projectrenewal.org/addiction.html#house
Yeah, those folks have no taste whatsoever in window treatments.
A ton of space, but a likely a ton of work to be done.
Also, it is two houses they are selling for $3 million. A bargain. I suspect that if they sold both for $6 million, they could afford our nice Peel-Away window treatments.
I agree, this is very ghetto ass. We have paper over our windows, printed with the legend “Peel Away — Caution, do not touch, chemical paint removal in process” in bright red type. They are attached with blue painter’s tape. It’s a very nice color combo. Much more chic and trendy than these ghetto ass curtains here.
When a fellow Brownstone commenter saw it, he exclaimed, “What are you doing using Peel Away paper for curtains! That stuff is expensive.” You see, it’s a very big status symbol. Conspicuous consumption. Just like the rest of our house, which is really nothing but a big dollar symbol over a cellar.
I would turn it into 6 luxury green Condominiums :
4 three bedrooms duplexes and 2 two bedrooms floor through.
1.2 million for the duplex (1800 sqf three-bedrooms 2 1/2 bath and an home office.
Any buyers?
Um, stargazer maybe it’s an older person who has lived there for decades and can barely move, much less change out curtains.
Why do you always have to be so nasty?
Most people truly interested in purchasing brownstones are able to look past paint, curtains and other superficial things like that. You are clearly not one of these people.
OMG,
This is EXACTLY what I am talking about!!!
Who the fuck ties curtains in a fukking knot???? Who does this?????
This is so freaking ugly, and tacky…
There is this new invention called “tie backs” they are used to tie curtains back so they do not have to be tied in a knot…..
Who ever took this picture to represnt this home for sale should have their head examined and told the owners to untie the curtains, because it looks tacky…
people that do this, need to be told it looks terrible…and very low class and ghetto.
In many ways it’s a brilliant location, in many ways not. Some buyers might be prepared to sacrifice convenience for a stronger residential atmosphere (ie. a block deeper into the neighborhood) since this is almost the Downtown Brooklyn business district. Also the proximity to Atlantic Mall won’t find find favor with all. If these houses were on a prime block I could see a very deep-pocketed Wall St type knocking them together to create one giant home.
nice ghetto ass curtains, please dont be trying to sell a house for 3 million dollars and show pictures of curtains straight out of a third world country.
*rob*
The map is wrong. This is actually on the block between Lafayette and Hanson, which is kept up pretty well (a lot better than the block between Fulton and DeKalb).