House of the Day: 231 Bergen Street
Hope springs eternal. Granted the developer who bought this place in February ’06 has done a masterful job of squeezing every last square inch of usable space out of this four-story brick house on Bergen between Bond and Nevins, but we’d like some of what he was smoking when he set the asking price of…
Hope springs eternal. Granted the developer who bought this place in February ’06 has done a masterful job of squeezing every last square inch of usable space out of this four-story brick house on Bergen between Bond and Nevins, but we’d like some of what he was smoking when he set the asking price of $3,900,000 (or $3,600,000, depending on whether you believe the NYT listing or the listing on the Cobble Heights site). This doesn’t seem even remotely likely for this location, especially when every ounce of character has been wrung out of this place, starting with the institutional-feeling garden. If modern’s what you want, why not take the most expensive State Street Town for a million bucks less?
231 Bergen Street [Cobble Heights] GMAP P*Shark
yeah whoever made that tired old “cultural city” reference as an explanation for people wanting to live in NY needs to look around… culture is being priced out, and New York is experiencing a real brain drain.
Mr Gekko, why don’t you go back to selling insurance, or whatever you do these days.
Hey Anon 3:55 READ What I write. I was talking about MY HOUSE you dork. NOT THIS stupid house.
And what is “design integrity”? Never heard that before, Can you buy it at TARGET?
4:34pm – you know who’s a really scary mf? the poster above mine because I know he didn’t have to look that speech up…
I think priced pretty aggressively…
there is a 1/2 house condo in contract on Pacific not far from this – lower 2 floors (and the lower floor is garden level not cellar-below grade like lower duplex in this Bergen house) – also modern style-
and larger sq. ft 2000 vs 1800; and priced at $1.5.
So there is my comp.
man, i really hope you had to look up that speech. anyone who has it memorized is a scary m*&^%ef^&%er.
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed — for lack of a better word — is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind.
And greed — you mark my words — will not only save Brooklyn, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
anon 3:36
now it all makes sense. the lack of design integrity in this building is due to plumbing stack access. got it.
actually, i don’t want to be so bitchy — so why am i? i think the reason behind some of the particularly stong opinions on this thread is simple: this owner is obviously greedy. greed makes me mad. greed is ugly. development greed in Brooklyn really gets my hackles up. Greed is messing up my borough. And greed and bad taste seem to go hand-in-hand.
Can we all just calm down a bit about the choices the developer/landlord/contractor makes when redoing a building. NO one here knew what it looked like before the renovation. I would have liked to have my house a certain way but in the renovation process choices were made because of money, plumbing stack access, etc. Fact is when you renovate a 100 year old house that is not exactly the best layout for modern living, things will not always turn out perfect.