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 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