House of the Day: 145 Van Dyke Street
Houses in Red Hook don’t come on the market that often because, well, there just aren’t that many of them. They tend to be a little quirky, often in a good way. Take today’s HOTD at 145 Van Dyke Street. To start with, the house is set back 40 feet or so from the street,…
Houses in Red Hook don’t come on the market that often because, well, there just aren’t that many of them. They tend to be a little quirky, often in a good way. Take today’s HOTD at 145 Van Dyke Street. To start with, the house is set back 40 feet or so from the street, with a sizeable garage in front of it. The interiors have a certain charm to them as well — pulling off the modern/traditional straddle. The dark beams set against the crisp white ceilings and walls feel out of the pages of a magazine shoot. The whole house isn’t quite as stylized, though: the bathroom looks perfectly ordinary. Another bonus: The owners of this house are among the few people who could walk to Fairway. As for the $1,195,000 asking price, we have to admit to not having strong feelings about. What do you think?
145 Van Dyke Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
By the way, there was a stabbing directly across the street from this place today, at the methadone clinic:
http://www.gothamist.com/labs/map
How on earth are people pricing these places above $700k…
price has been reduced 100k
red hook has the same vibe DUMBO/vinegar hill had about 10 years ago. whatever you do, don’t let two trees seduce you.
its a good thing the house is set back because once you step onto the street you are greeted with the throngs of gnarly methadonians who love to loiter at clinic right across the street! and every dwelling/garage on that shitty little stretch of Van Dyke has been burglarized- some more than once!
I figured I’d get blasted for my baltimore post, and granted it has a rough past, but isn’t the same true for many other cities in the US (including NEW YORK)?
I suppose other people just responded to my ignorant post on Red Hook (considering I’ve never lived there, and have only spent a couple days and nights in the nabe), with some ignorance of their own.
How thoughtful.
My apologies to the Red Hook residents; I sounded a bit more judgmental in my post than I meant to. Like I said, I’m just curious why people pick that and not similar but (what I consider to be) slightly nicer neighborhoods in other great cities.
And, no, I’m not a broker; I just love that house.
8am, just because you don’t know any artists who are capable of making a good living from their work, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Or maybe you are one of those who believe people have to be perpetually poor and suffering and unappreciated in order to be considered a real artist. I agree NYC’s arts community is going to really suffer, if not disappear entirely, because new emerging artists can’t afford to live (or worse, can’t afford studio space) in NYC like they could in decades and centuries before. (Another example of NYC becoming a suburban shopping mall). But I sure as heck don’t begrudge an artist getting established enough to make a good living. MORE artists should be able to do that.
12:32–I for one am a native New Yorker.
Mad Max set thats funny.
Interesting thread. I’ll keep silent on most points except for 1 thing: “artists” don’t buy 1 million dollar houses. ” Artists” are the people who used to live in RH before the realtors started selling 1 million dollar houses to “artists”.
Just to clarify.
Oh yeah, I will say RH is good for scoring drugs. My coke dealer lives in the RHP.