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This old-school four-story brownstone at 59 Macdonough Street in Bed Stuy has some great details but, according to a reader who saw it yesterday, is a ticking time bomb that needs a new owner asap. In an effort to “fix up” the house for sale, the current owner, who’s been in the house since 1999, is reportedly destroying some of its most characterful aspects, oblivious to the fact that these are precisely what make the house attractive to a large portion of potential buyers. Given the asking price of $775,000 and the proximity to the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, we’re hoping someone out there will get interested in this place before serious damage is done. Update: The broker shot us an email to let us know that the owner’s work is limited to the top floor, which he had started working on before he decided to sell; he’s going to finish up that work and he’s not touching any of the other details in the house.
59 Macdonough Street [Craigslist] GMAP P*Shark


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  1. Dear 11.13 don’t feel bad, it has happened to others. People moved in to the Degraw house by the project. I lived on the block, rented one summmer. I wouldn’t
    have bought on the blo9ck if they gave me a house for 300k let alone 999K. Sold
    to a nice young couple from DC who didn’t
    take enough time to see the nabe. Their real estate agent was good at selling, but not at fitting the right person to the right house. They put the house on the market a month after they moved in.
    I should add that at night, it was a bad
    crack block.
    I have no problem in Harlem, westside
    better than east right now.
    I am a person of color and there are lots of blocks I wouldn’t live on in the five boros. It takes years for a drug block to turn itself around. You can put twenty new houses on a bad block, it just means better robberies
    It’s a block by block thing. For years
    I know people in the hood that walk so fast nothing bad can cath them. You
    get older you might not want to walk so quickly.

  2. To the poster who commented that PropShark had this as a 1-family: I don’t know about this particular situation, but our building in Bed-Stuy was originally a one-family but had been used as a 2-family for so long that the city gave our previous owners a “letter of no objection” or something like that which effectively changed the C of O with no waiting, no cost, no nothing. This may be the case here as well.