House of the Day: 43 Love Lane
Believe it or not, today’s House of the Day was built in 1999. Located on the same block as the soon-to-be-condo’d Love Lane garage, the building succeeds on the exterior as a credible carriage house recreation (though a straight roofline might have worked a little better). The interior — all 1,300 2,400 square feet of…
Believe it or not, today’s House of the Day was built in 1999. Located on the same block as the soon-to-be-condo’d Love Lane garage, the building succeeds on the exterior as a credible carriage house recreation (though a straight roofline might have worked a little better). The interior — all 1,300 2,400 square feet of it — is much less successful. For this location and this price we’d expect a hell of a lot more than recessed lighting and cheesy marble floors. If you’ve got money to burn and care more about having jacuzzi than nice moldings, this could be the place for you. Or, if you want to spend half as much for twice the space, you could always check this place out.
43 Love Lane [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Scott Bintner for Property Shark
I walked past this last week – I can’t believe that they still want $2.7M for 1460sqft. It’s been on the market for years!
The garage near by (and most of the west side of the street) will be a construction site for a year.
Those mushrooms bollards are all dinged up from the delivery trucks.
I think 33 Love Lane is for sale for $1.2M for 2 floors of 600sqft (including a garage and a funky office on the ground floor) It will probably sell for under $1M in the current slump.
Taking this into consideration, They’d be lucky to get $1.5M for 43 Love Lane. And you can get a nice brownstone with a garden in Park Slope for that kind of money.
anon 5:08 from yesterday –
57 Willow Street – $5.7M, $1,435 psf
33 Love Lane – $1.235M, $1,450 psf
12 Middagh Street – $2.5M, $1,000 psf
20 Grace Court Alley – $2.675, $1,048 psf
34 Garden Place – $3.25M, $1,160 psf
$1,000 psf for townhouses and carriage houses in Brooklyn Heights is in the rear view mirror.
Anyone know the name of the contractor who built the house? I have a project for him/her!
First of all this might be the most overpriced listing ever. It is 730 sq ft x TWO plus a basement and a roof deck. Sorry people but basements and roof decks dont get full sq ft price. This place is well over $1600sq ft by any reasonable calculation and gets little light (both b/c it has few windows and b/c it is in an alley).
As for its architecture, while I dont object to one recreation in an already landmarked neighborhood, even aside from the cost to recreate – if you had a whole block of these faux-structures there would be little seperating it from Walt Disney World’s Main Street USA. Talk about the mallification of America…..
For the Record,
9 ft 7 in for this type of home is low ceilings. I’m sure the parlor floor in my non luxury bronwstone is 12+ ft.
Here is a similar project in Brooklyn that you all might like: http://www.hathewayarchitects.com/residential3.html (and no, it’s not my website – it’s for an architect I considered hiring for a project a couple of years ago)
When we first wrote it up, DE didn’t have any square footage posted and Property Shark says 1,300. We’ll update now.
Mr. B, how the heck do you get 1300 square feet for this space?
bob999 – I am not absolutely sure but I think the Garden Level of this carriage house is at grade with rear garden of townhouse behind it.