House of the Day: 621 Morgan Avenue
At $949,999, this three-family house in Greenpoint might be kinda interesting for a single person or young couple with no immediate space needs to grow into. The existing three floors are a deeper-than-normal 55 feet and there’s still enough FAR that one could build a fourth floor as of right. More interestingly, judging from the…
At $949,999, this three-family house in Greenpoint might be kinda interesting for a single person or young couple with no immediate space needs to grow into. The existing three floors are a deeper-than-normal 55 feet and there’s still enough FAR that one could build a fourth floor as of right. More interestingly, judging from the interior photos, the house has a decent amount of old-world charm, a reminder that the faux siding now on the exterior wasn’t always there. We curious why more people haven’t restored the facades of the houses in this part of town. Presumably, the answer is money, but at some point hopefully one by-product of the upward pressure on prices will be a renewed interest in returning the houses to their original state. What do you think the facade was originally made of?
621 Morgan Avenue [Nest Seekers via Trulia] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Scott Bintner for Property Shark
stop complaining about price jump from $950 crap to $1.5mn gold. if you just need a place to live, you can get something nice for way less than $950. “scratch” is all relative as certain bloggers who were mid-level wall streeters that now own multi-million dollar brownstones can tell you.
Donatella,
Any good contractor knows what a two-hour fire rated partition is. Polish contractors are the best. Truly they are. Especially at preservation work.
They rebuilt many of their cities from scratch after the nazis destroyed them.
They came to ny in the 1970’s and 80’s actually knowing what stone carving is and what real plaster is etc etc. we owe them a lot. I’m not joking about that.
A local architect can also help you out. In fact, that would be the best way to go.
2:37,
Wow! That’s some picture of the nabe you just painted for everyone…
seller should probably hype the nearby park and coffee shop, and downplay the BQE white noise, super loud hip-hop, 15 minute subway commute, divebars, hipsters, hardcore kids, lofts hosting shows, passed out drunks, and the oil spill…
West, keep such valueless comments to yourself.
It’s true that many of the aforementioned Polish drunks prefer the convenience of Brooklyn to Staten Island. Unless of course they are the ones driving the Ferry.
Serge- What sort of contractor does work like you suggest. I know my contractor would be clueless? Thanks
Donatella- True this isn’t the most aesthetically appealing situation, but not everyone has min of 1.5 mil to live in a brownstone, and a lot of people prefer the convenience of Brooklyn to Staten Island.
2:45 was me. I was so distressed thinking about that pink plastic house, I didn’t log in.
I think we are really downsizing our expectations here. I couldn’t go in and out of this place every day without becoming ill from ugliness. I don’t have to eat oily dirt ala anonymous Negro or get brain damaged or go into a coma from petrofumes. Just poor butt ugliness would do me in. I could get a vinyl sided house like that in Staten Island (Port Richmond) for 300,000 dollars and get sick for much less money.
I used to live on this block. It’s basically the butt end of driggs and way to close to the BQE. It’s a really weird block it’s almost literally split in two. (one side of the block polish the other Puerto Rican). In the summer it’s super loud with kids playing hip-hop out of their cars, also with the windows open there’s a constant white noise from the BQE. The closest train to Manhattan is the Graham Ave L stop, a 15 minute walk underneath the BQE which is basically dirty and loud. There’s a super nice park about 4 blocks away and nice little coffee shop called “Cup of Joe’s” I think. There’s basically nothing else except for a few dive bars but that could have changed since I left. At one point there was the lyric lunge which attracted hipsters and hardcore kids but that’s long gone. There’s a few cool lofts in the hood that host shows. More and more hipsters everyday, which is beleive it or not a welcome to the polish drunks who are always passed out on the corner and underneath the BQE. Oh, it’s about a 30 minute walk to Franklin Ave, and almost 20 to bedford. In short, this place is just not worth that price, especially because of the oil spill.