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
The potential is off the hook.
And I agree Stoner – this might be one of the absolute best blocks in brooklyn.
Not enough pix showing enough of the interior,but just based on the exterior, I liked 265 the best, just exquisite… with the beautiful frontage… though kind of wondering what’s on the otherside of the house out of camera range…
Look, if I just can’t have 265, I would settle for 275… 🙂
Let em check my lotto ticket!
Mos Def, I appreciate the sentiment, but, in this case: This mansion doesn’t look like it started out as “affordable housing” to me. Why should it be affordable now?
make it affordable housing
i can fit 36 head up in that piece
keep brooklyn real
Wow! Now that’s a house.
Perfect for the zillionaire who could renovate it and fill it with great stuff.
I would love it if Stoner could track the outcome of this.
I’ve been in the Washington one… and oddly the 2nd link (that goes to a pic of the front of the clinton one) has pictures of washington… meaning the front is clinton but the rest are washington pics. Also, the washington link (to Brooklyn Properties) is misleading… the floors have been stolen out of the washington one – you can see that in the other link… it has gorgeous potential and will need a LOT of work. I’d love to see the real pics of the inside of the clinton one!
yo i’m gonna rap about this to my peeps in Flatbush
we love white people buying up our hood
peace
no pics of the kitchen or bathrooms of this one… if this was used as student housing, does it need a lot of work (all of the pics are close-ups of details….)
BStoner: If I’m not mistaken, I think the title of your jump is incorrectly given as Washington when the jump is to the Clinton house.