House of the Day: 419 Washington Avenue
What a tease! The listing for 419 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill is already up on the Douglas Elliman website (sans interior photos) but no one’s being allowed inside until after Labor Day. The major argument of the listing verbiage is that, despite having only two real floors of living space, the scale of the…
What a tease! The listing for 419 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill is already up on the Douglas Elliman website (sans interior photos) but no one’s being allowed inside until after Labor Day. The major argument of the listing verbiage is that, despite having only two real floors of living space, the scale of the interiors dwarfs that of your typical brownstone. The numbers that are publicly available, however, don’t support that assertion. Sure, it’s 24 feet wide. But it’s also only 35 feet deep, according to Property Shark. (According to the Elliman listing, though, there’s 4,000 square feet of space—which would mean it would have to be 80 feet deep. Based upon the satellite view, that seems like a serious stretch.) The lack of interior photos and clarity about square footage make it hard to weigh in on the asking price of $1,500,000. (There’s also a clear attempt to leave out of the photo the charming, but very run-down, wooden house next door at 417 Washington.) This place is bound to be charming on the inside, so if there were anywhere near 4,000 square feet of living space, it would be a sweet deal. Something doesn’t add up though. Who’s been inside?
419 Washington Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
This place will be worthless after AY is built.
A very nice house. it could use a new picket fence, a new front door and new multi-pane windows.
It may also be missing doo-dads from the cornice, an old picture would show that.
The windows have their old pintles, which are there to support shutters, an optional touch but one that really ties together an early facade like this.
I hope some old-house lover buys it, not someone who wants turn it into a faux loft.
good catch, 2:44, although the extension looks more like 30-40 feet to me (still a lot of space). and with 120 feet of lot depth that still leaves a decent-sized yard.
unfortunately, all of you are incorrect…there is a HUGE extension on the back of this house…go to local.live.com, zoom in it’s 2 houses down from the apt building and then click on bird’s eye view and youll see the long extension (probably 50 feet deep)
Realtor is adding on attic space – which she describes in listing and also cellar with windows which is not in city/propshark definition. (maybe also extension, I don’t know)
Certainly exaggeration but buyer will have to judge for himself what is worth.
IF fixed up nicely inside wouldn’t seem so bad price maybe- but I don’t know ClintonHill pricing that well.
Whatever the square feet that is one beautiful, balanced facade. And also: the extra width (four feet over a standard brownstone) allows for much more flexibility in interior layouts, such that to my mind each extra foot in width is worth three in length.
You can always add on the back, but you usually can’t add width.
None of this is to say that 1.5M makes sense. Don’t know at all about that.
they are counting the attik teeny rooms as floor space
Zillow is unreliable. My next door neighbor and I have the exact same house built in the same year by the same builder. Zillow lists my neighbors house as being worth $200k more. Oh yeah, there house has appreciated recently while mine depreciated.
I wouldn’t rely on Zillow for anything frankly.
Not sure how this place could be 4000 square feet though…