House of the Day: Willow Place on the Cheap
The same person has owned this brick townhouse at 39 Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights since 1974, which might explain why it’s priced so cheaply. The photos in the listings, however, show that the house is in decent shape, though certainly lacking the jaw-dropping interiors of some houses in the area. Still, $2.5 million for…
The same person has owned this brick townhouse at 39 Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights since 1974, which might explain why it’s priced so cheaply. The photos in the listings, however, show that the house is in decent shape, though certainly lacking the jaw-dropping interiors of some houses in the area. Still, $2.5 million for a 25-footer in Brooklyn Heights? Not only that, but the price was dropped from $2,775,000 within ten days of it hitting the market earlier this month. What gives? What’s the catch?
39 Willow Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Price Cut [Natefind]
where is the proof that this has sold for over 3 mil? it’s nice for the owner if it has, but, perhaps, a gun has been jumped? also, who’s to say the owner didn’t post that original feed?
Or the more reason to live “down the hill”…less of a douche factor
As far as the width of the row house goes, its not a difference in “quality”, rather a significant difference in the interior feel and potential layout of a place. I live in a 22.5 foot wide place and those extra 2-3 feet (beyond the more typical 19 – 20 foot wide places) makes an enormous difference in terms of the layout of rooms, ability to have: a real kitchen/dining area on the parlor floor,; a small powder room on the parlor floor under the stairs (as the architect above noted) – and to just avoid that long skinny railroad room feel.
Then again, in especially narrow houses, there are often central stair cases which often successfully prevent the living spaces from being too narrow.
so, it’s been sold, I take it?
I live on Pierrepont and would LOVE a house in willowtown. I know of a couple of houses that have had some issues but those are the older (pre-1900) places right above the IRT
i vote for number one. it’s simultaneously smug and a lie–a smie if you will.
“I would not purchase a home on Willow Place period, or on State or Joralemon below Hicks.
If you live in the Heights you would know this. Only people moving from elsewhere would purchase a home below Hicks between Joralemon and State.”
When we were looking to buy, that was the only area that interested us. Seemed less, I dunno, pretentious than up the hill.
“Is there a huge difference in quality between 20′ and 25′ wide brownstones?”
There’s a huge difference in flexibility for renovation. A 25-wide means there’s enough space for e.g., a powder room on the parlor floor w/o taking space from a traditional front/back parlor combination. Also, a kitchen can be paired with a real dining space in the back — this is otherwise something of a squeeze.
–an architect in Brooklyn
Take a vote for idiot of the day- choices below.
Probably all the same loser made all 3 comments.
” Only people moving from elsewhere would purchase a home below Hicks between Joralemon and State.”
“Carroll gardens is blue collar and the heights is white collar”
“All you people who moved into neighborhoods other than Bklyn. Hts, what was your frame of reference when you paid too much, a broker who told you prices would go higher. Clearly, many of you have overpaid. Yes I am a real estate broker, and I will tell you a secret: Brooklyn has a three tier pricing system”