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
This bldg was condo of the day on Feb 26 if you check your archives.
I would think you’d be scaring off potential condo buyers if offering whole bldg for sale at same time.
and anon 12;46 — no way was this built as ‘working class home’. Don’t know what orig. was left when this guy started this project but this area, block etc are very elegant houses.
What is total sq ft of bldg after expansion?
this place will go for 2 million.
TOPS.
It looks like this guy is getting what he deserves for treating his neighbors so poorly.
i can see this selling between 3.5 and the asking price, IMO
Wow. Just a couple of months ago I looked at 246 Bergen across the street, which was a fixer-upper of similar size offered at $1.6 million.
anon 12:46
“but a brick row house like this probably never had any great details anyway”
sorry but you’re wrong. i live in a brick row house with a very similar frontage and i have a friend that owns another brick row with similar frontage. both her house and my apartment have glorious original details: tin cielings, beautiful mantles, built-in cabinets, thoughtful wood framing around the windows, old-style skylights…
i believe this kind of detailing was the norm for brick rows of the period — not the exception (both our places are on more traditionally working-class blocks than that Bergen block).
mr b:
while i dont disagree w/ you on the price, they are clearly not marketing this to single user to rent out other space…this is being targeted to someone take over the final “condoization” process and either keep one unit or sell all three..
whether it’s worth it in that context is a whole other story
what i don’t think you guys realize is that this is a condo project, but the developer is offering a “discount” if you buy all three units. it’s over $4 mill if the three units are sold seperately. that being said it is ugly and i love modern and hate traditional stuff, although i believe it should be preserved if it exists. but a brick row house like this probably never had any great details anyway, and i’m sure that it had none when this guy got it. these types of houses were built as working class home, they were never to grand. that’s why it pisses me off when people on this site assume details were destroyed of removed.
this particular renovation looks done with poor knock off modern fixtures and just plain bad taste.
agreed, brownstoner. i’ve seen this thing on the market for at least a month… at first they were selling individual units. now all of a sudden they’re trying to sell the whole building. what’s going on over there? does anybody know?