House of the Day: 380 Degraw Street
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in…
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in sky blue? It’s a little much. With an asking price of $2,645,000, spending $10,000 to repaint a few rooms would have been well worth it, we think. While this is a great house in a great location overall, other aspects of the recent “modern” renovation were only partially successful as well: The shiny blond floors (which, to be fair, could be worse on camera than in person) and the choice of white paint for the exterior of the windows both aren’t working for us. The kitchen reno looks very good, though, and there’s lots of nice original detail still in place, like the crown moldings, door frames and bannister. There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 3. It’ll be interesting to see hear how this place shows in person.
380 Degraw Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Wait a sec. Plenty of other similar townhouses in the neighborhood on equally nice streets — and zoned for 58 or 29 — are going for at least a million less. WTF??? And a million less is still nearly triple what they went for 7 or 8 years ago. Come on. Just say no.
Would be like living in a Tiffany’s box. Where’s Audrey Hepburn when you need her?
1:12…wake up on the wrong side of the litter box today? jeez.
house may be a little expensive, but the things you hate about the place are what city living is all about. close proximity to affordable housing, new development, a soon to be refurbished canal, etc. if you hate these things so much, it seems odd to live in such a large city such as new york.
guess it’s the glass half full vs. glass half empty mentality at work also.
I don’t know, looks like a garden to me. Except for lack of any bathroom on the parlor floor, seems like a family-friendly layout. No idea about price, definitely out of my reach.
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I saw this place when it was first on the market roughly 5 or 6 years ago and back then it was at $1.3 if memory serves (which at the time was way higher than any building had sold for on that block). The owner is a lady who owned a few properties on the same street and was just sort of feeling out the market. Since she had so many other places and was just renting out the place as 3 units (one duplex + 2 single floor apartments )she wasnt really interested in negotiating at all… I can confirm that the place is indeed gorgeous in person. The living space is really large and the garden is really great. The location is nice too, half a block off of smith.
Big minus for us was the school situation (if memory serves it was zoned for the sketchy schools in Boerum Hill). Factor in $20-30k a year per kid on private school into the price. The price does seems a bit excessive, but the building itself is great.
I just saw the recorded sale for a duplex in the recently condo’d 100 2nd place. It went for 1.825 Buyers have lost their collective minds. This place seems like a relative deal.
1 1/2 blocks away from the projects.
Neighborhood is hip, but transportation (f,g train) is sucky.
Going to smell to high heaven once they shut the gowanus flushing tunnel.
Rents for this would be perhaps (maybe) 2k/floor. At a generous 15x rent roll, this is still overpriced by 80%.
There is a parking lot right behind this that is going to be developed.
CG is nice and all, but this is simply too rich.
I like it. They’re making some bold statements designwise. Looks like they’ve done it on a budget (Ikea kitchen, socket fixture) – aint no crime, but the devil’s in the details as they say. Would like to see in person.
Me, I like the idea of mixing modern elements within b-stone spaces. Granted, some of the attempts have failed, but this works great . . . from the pics.