House of the Day: 265 Clinton Avenue NOT!
It’s a good time to be a buyer with a lot of dough in Clinton Hill! In addition to 275 Washington Avenue for $3.5 million, there’s another gem at 265 Clinton Avenue just became available also for $3.5 million. Currently known as Lorenzo Hall, the 35-foot-wide brownstone currently serves as student housing (we think) for…
It’s a good time to be a buyer with a lot of dough in Clinton Hill! In addition to 275 Washington Avenue for $3.5 million, there’s another gem at 265 Clinton Avenue just became available also for $3.5 million. Currently known as Lorenzo Hall, the 35-foot-wide brownstone currently serves as student housing (we think) for St. Joseph’s college. It’s a legal two-family with double-parlors on the first and second floors. Lots of beautiful plasterwork and 14-foot ceilings too. To top it off, this is arguably the grandest block of architecture in all of Brooklyn. So the question is, if you had the money, which of these two houses would you opt for? Update: So here’s what we think happened. It never made sense (a) that St. Joseph’s would be selling 265 Clinton and (b) that if it were if would use Best Apartments as the broker. When we were looking through the New York Times listings yesterday, there was a photo of 265 Clinton without the address. Of course, we went and figured out the address. When we put this post up this morning, they must have realized they would get busted pulling a bait-and-switch and went and put up photos of the Brooklyn Properties listing (which may be open for all we know). Of course, whenever something like this smells fishy, we try to take a screen shot for posterity’s sake—which we’ve pasted in above. Anyway, the whole thing’s a little weird but it appears that the bottom line is that 265 Clinton was never for sale in the first place.
265 Clinton Avenue [Best Apartments] GMAP P*Shark
Why would a broker shill anonymously to buyers, anyway? To sellers, that I could see. But it’s not like anyone’s going to read a blog thread and say, “Ooooh, I want to buy a Brooklyn Properties house! I’m not even going to LOOK at that Corcoran crap!”
I don’t think either of you are shilling. You both just have too much time on your hands.
ya fools still dont get it
brownstoner theme <> mos def lyrics
its like Ronald Reagan tryin to use Springsteen’s born in the usa as his theme song…until he was told to stop
i thought u loved me
i guess you just exploited me
dont you ever post my lyrics on ur fake ass blog again
You are most certainly on the BP payroll. Give us a break. And I am most certainly not a Corcoran agent either. Just sick of this ridiculousness. Makes the whole industry you are in look pathetic. And it’s not. Just some of you are lame to resort to this kind of junk. Luckily the reputable agencies don’t have to advertise in this tacky manner.
Not a Broker but LOVE BP. They get the fun stuff, the mansions with the weird turrets and solariums. Usually in total disrepair. But so much higher value than any of this corcoran trash.
OOPS. Looking at the other listing.
BP also has a Fort Green office on Fulton and Lafayette.
No, I’m not an agent…
Brooklyn Properties certainly does have listings in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area. Mostly top range too. They used to have a recently sold page, but it’s gone. They had a nice one previously on one of the park blocks in FG.
Although 275 is certainly not to be sneezed at, this one at 265 is a gem. Since we’re talking fantasy buying anyway, I think the width of this one makes it a row house of distinction, for that reason alone. In terms of immediate neighborhood, if the college is right next door, I guess one would have to weigh college kids vs new construction cruddy condos. College kids win for me. The details shown are beautiful, it’s got that nice looking deck/railing in the back which is very nice, and it’s soooo wide.
Bren is right, time to look at the lotto numbers.
Oh, the Mos Def impersonations were witty a time or two, but it’s getting old. The parody is edging over into sterotyping. If you really respect Mos Def, it’s time to stop.