House of the Day: 279 Park Place
It’s hard to find anything wrong with this new listing at 279 Park Place. The Prospect Heights brownstone has gorgeous period detail and has been tastefully updated where it counts (like the kitchen). Add to that the fact that the house sits on one of those sweet 131-feet-deep lots and it’s hard to see this…
It’s hard to find anything wrong with this new listing at 279 Park Place. The Prospect Heights brownstone has gorgeous period detail and has been tastefully updated where it counts (like the kitchen). Add to that the fact that the house sits on one of those sweet 131-feet-deep lots and it’s hard to see this remaining on the market for long, even with a price tag of $1,995,000.
279 Park Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Property records have it as 17′ wide. Still a skinny tall house, but otherwise it looks nice.
Kudos for once to the agent for (1) identifying the scope of the mechanicals in the renovation, and (2) including a photo of the garden unit. Although why the scare quotes around “Historic Landmark”?
In terms of usable sf, 20×40. The stairs can chew up a lot of space in narrow houses. I do like center hall staircases though, so it’s not necessarily clear-cut.
Great minds think alike, Minard.
I prefer (& have) the 3 but I think w/ kids the 4 is probably better.
FLH….I think family size determines the answer to that question. With no kids, I’d rather have the 20 x 40 but if I had a few kids there’d be more bedrooms in the 15 x 40
if you need a lot of bedrooms, 4 stories at 15 is better, if you are looking for fewer but bigger rooms, the wider shorter house is better.
Square footage preference question: what’s better, 4 stories at 15*40, or 3 stories at 20*40?
Love love love it. Not wild about that allegedly tasteful kitchen, but that’s easy enough to remedy.
Price seems a bit high for the square footage, but folks are paying beaucoup bucks to live in ProHi these days.
Well, it’s narrow. 15*40 wide, so floorspace is only 2400sf. But those 131-ft lots are a gardener’s dream. I used to live on the adjacent block of Prospect Place, and having two 65-ft gardens abut each other gives an incredible sense of space. These are among the deepest lots in all of brownstone brooklyn.