House of the Day: 112 Prospect Park West
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this…
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this is really a lifetime’s labor of love. This is one of those listings that is useless to try to put a dollar value on. At $3,975,000, it’s expensive enough to be well out of the reach of mere mortals. The question is only will someone very wealthy fall in love.
112 Prospect Park West [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
not everything is interested in an estate with DRIVEWAYS, pools, etc. i certainly wouldn’t prefer it.
there is much to be said for living a city life instead of isolated on an estate in larchmont.
listen…to each his own, but there is a reason why more and more people are choosing to raise families in new york…it’s because unlike where i grew up in the affluent suburbs, it’s a much more vibrant, fullfilling life for the most part.
if i had 4 million, i’d be right here in brooklyn where am i now. maybe a little cabin somewhere or a little place at the beach to escape every now and then, but certainly not an estate in the burbs.
we are talking about very different types of people here and the audience of this website for the most part i don’t think would agree with you.
Brooklyn used to be nice, you would put up with the car theft, and break-ins and general crappyness because it was cheap, and there were all these great old houses built in a more genteel time. But now, fuggedabodit. Who’s kidding who? The prices are like freakin’ Malibu or Palm Beach. It is nuts. I can’t wrap my brain around it. Who would live in Brooklyn who could spend four million dollars on a really nice estate in the nearby suburbs? Do you have any idea how much nicer the quality of life is once you have detached houses with big trees and pools and private driveways?
Fuggedabodit, you guys are smoking to much prospect park weed.
Anon 4:21,
I agree, Prospect Park is hands down lovelier than Fort Greene Park but, my feelings are that with PP, you feel so far away from the park – two lanes of traffic, great, wide sidewalks and so many trees lining it that you have to be on upper floors to see into the park. With Fort Greene Park, it’s a bit threadbare but, the street is super quiet due to it being only one lane and a short street and the way the windows are set up in most of those brownstones, you can’t see the cars from your parlor window, only the park so it looks like you have a massive front yard which is pretty cool. Those things said, I would take the FG house over the PP house: a) it’s less money; b) it’s got to be the same price to install central air as to gut the doctor’s office, move the kitchen, REPAINT!!!; c) the neighborhood is friendlier and; d) the street is quieter.
Bob999 – I got nothing unfortunately. Looking for suggestions – architects drew it in, engineer’s going to spec the installation but we’ve got a bunch of other stuff to focus on right now so haven’t spent any time looking at actual dumb waiters! Some people are pushing us towards manual pulley systems rather than electrical as less to break down…
We put our kitchen on the garden level, too. There’s nothing like a 20′ wide kitchen looking out on the garden. On warm days like today I sit at my table and stare out the french door to see all my plantings come to life. It’s a joy.
Oooooh, Anon 4:25, I have ALWAYS wanted a dumbwaiter–and actually have posted here looking for suggestions–to no response. Are you putting in a vintage-y one, or one of the modern, hydrolic ones? The latter is all I could really find on the internet. Unfortunately our needs in the kitchen renovation will be such that I don’t think we can devote the space to one of these, but I’d love to be talked into it. Whatcha got? Thanks!
Oh bob999 with your buns o’ steel – we too are putting our kitchen on the garden florr during reno (moving it from parlor floor) and putting in a dumb waiter. Has anyone had any good experiences with installing a dumb waiter? companies/experts etc.? was it a good idea? did you use it? etc etc
gorgeous house on washington you linked us to.
but to be on prospect park is a great thing. i’m actually surprised it’s not more sought after than it is.
imagine what this place would be on cpw?
8-10 million is my guess.
and prospect park is arguably much more beautiful.
Here’s my quibble–but one that I think touches on an issue for lotsa rowhouse buyers in BKLYN: As gorgeous as this house is, that kitchen island butting up against the original fireplace is mucho awkward-looking. It points up how verrrrrry difficult it is to put the kitchen where it wasn’t intended to be in these places. More practical for today’s lifestyle, definitely, to have cucina on parlor floor–but I have YET to see one that didn’t look/flow somehow screwy. Anybody got a picture of a successful one? Would love to see. Me, I’m keeping mine on the ground level–at least I’ll get buns o’ steel. 🙂