House of the Day: 1127 Glenwood Road
This baby’s hot off the presses, having hit the Mary Kay Gallagher website on Tuesday. The 4,400-square-foot house at 1127 Glenwood Road is divided up into two duplex units, one of which rents for about $3,000 a month. Given the rental income, the level of overall historic detail and the ever-increasing desirability of the Victorian…
This baby’s hot off the presses, having hit the Mary Kay Gallagher website on Tuesday. The 4,400-square-foot house at 1127 Glenwood Road is divided up into two duplex units, one of which rents for about $3,000 a month. Given the rental income, the level of overall historic detail and the ever-increasing desirability of the Victorian Flatbush location, we suspect this will have buyers lined up around the block at the listing price of $1,275,000. Given its corner location, the taxes don’t look too bad at $4,458 either. The only bummer we can see is a bathroom that redefines the word ‘cheesy’ and doesn’t go at all with the rest of the house. Predictions on how fast this will go?
1127 Glenwood Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
I love Ditmas! Love it! But I have the kid issue as well. I have little ones and if Victorian houses are important to me I would get one in a nabe that my kids can go out and play, walk to the store etc.
Dont get me wrong – I dont think it is a bad nabe – its just what is impt to you.
I think it is an amazing place with tons of history!
we have looked at several beautiful homes in Midwood–the problem is the surrounding neighborhoods are high crime. I have small kids and cannot imagine them taking the subway home in a few years by themselves. The section of Flatbush that borders Midwood is donwright scary even in midday and that is where the subway stop is…. I am sure in many years to come I will have wished I had vision but crime is too real now
bad location- the house next door to it is terrible and couldn’t sell to save its life it seems, is there a driveway on this? street parking over here is rough i think it is over priced for the location.
or Summit, Maplewood, South Orange, Haworth, NJ
Hastings, Chappaqua, Harrison, Purchase, Rye, all the main line towns in Westchester.
Roslyn, LI
Oh my god, the metro area is full of charming older suburbs.
Nyack itself is chock full of knock-your-socks-off Victorians as is Grand View on Hudson, Tappan, on and on.
The purchase prices are lower but the taxes are higher. Ditmas Park and PP SOuth are charming little suburban enclaves within the big bad city. People are always suprised by it, like they are at Fieldston in the Bronx. If you like architecture, buy a car. you can’t see much from a subway.
Is the rental the top duplex or the bottom one?
I don’t like the bathroom either, but then, I’ve never really been a fan of marble baths in general. They seem really popular in the city lately. I do admire the above the mantle wine collection though lol.
anon 2:53…you should visit montclair, nj or nutley, nj sometime…beautiful victorians everywhere
Really? Where? Not the greater NYC suburbs where I grew up (although there were plenty of soul destroying high ranches to be found…). I remember some older, very modest housing stock in the less expensive parts of town, but nothing like this (with the exception of South Nyack in the ’70s, but that has all gone the way of gentification, much like Ditmas Park). I grew up in my 70s shoebox dreaming of living in a big rambling, Victorian, like the pristine examples on my Uncle’s street in Rumson, NJ. Hardly the wrong side of the tracks…
The suburbs are full of old houses like this. Although not usually cut up into apartments except in the most low-prestige districts.