House of the Day: 272 Halsey Street
This four-story brownstone at 272 Halsey in Bedford Stuyvesant caught our eye because it’s been in the same family for seven decades. Other than a newish kitchen, the house looks like unusually intact, with some killer woodwork and fireplaces. The fact that it’s a one-family may be a drawback—most prospective buyers are going to need…
This four-story brownstone at 272 Halsey in Bedford Stuyvesant caught our eye because it’s been in the same family for seven decades. Other than a newish kitchen, the house looks like unusually intact, with some killer woodwork and fireplaces. The fact that it’s a one-family may be a drawback—most prospective buyers are going to need help paying the mortgage given the asking price of $1,175,000, which seems on the high side to us. In addition to the house’s lineage, the listing is noteworthy for the fact that it may be the first time we’ve seen proximity to Food Town and Applebee’s listed as an amenity on a million-dollar property.
272 Halsey Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
11:24….yes, GO ON, GREENE AVE! we just bought there as well, and it’s feeling great to us too. best thing we ever did.
I see the broker took out the Applebee’s reference. Bravo, broker.
Organize and make it landmarked! I was talking to one of the LPC guys we’re dealing with now, and he said that the strength of LPC was created by the rich ladies of the upper east side who basically whined and bitched until they got their neigbs protected.
MMM – that is the general area of what is called Bedford Heights. This area should be landmarked. That is the only thing that will stop the building of Fedders houses on empty lots. I have nothing against the construction of much needed housing, but some kind of standards need to be set up to prevent these housing atrocities. If the area were landmarked, new buildings would have to be contextural.
wow.. I say let the good time roll $1.08 on greene..yippie.. all this and we haven’t even built up ameneties such as Restaurants… Cleaners.. etc
Well I guess I just got my answer on brownstoner’s latest headline: Someone just paid almost asking, $ 1.08, for a house in Bed Stuy.
I am buying just a few blocks down in Stuyvesant Heights but can someone define what is exactly is Bedford heights. I have heard it mention a few times on several sites and in many local news papers. Is Bedford Heights the beautiful blocks on: Jefferson, Hancock, Halsey, Macon bounded by Stuyvesant and Bedford?
I think the thing that is really hurting this neighborhood is the new construction of the two and three family homes they you find stuck in the middle of a row of brownstones. Developers please STOP… I have notice many of these places just stay vacant. No one wants to live in these houses with the cheap AC units built into the wall. Can the city just buy these places and declare enimate domain and get rid of them or move these houses to Queens or something…
Hey tired, can you translate that into non-psychobabble plain old English? It sounds like there might be an interesting point there, behind the haze of . . . whatever you are or should be taking.
With all the cmments here why read mine? But if you do, if a family of several generations are that “vulnerable” to think that a broker or for that matter “Corcoran” can get that price and are not ‘greedy” themselves than I suppose as always you contributors to this emotional soundboard are not truly coming to terms with your own issues. Smile you are not on candid camera.