House of the Day: 407 Vanderbilt Avenue
While everyone else has been at the beach, Mr. Minsky was teeing up his latest townhouse listing, a three-story converted carriage house at 407 Vanderbilt Avenue on the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene border. It looks to us like the interior was completely gutted and renovated from scratch. We’re not particularly partial to nouveau traditional stylings (it…
While everyone else has been at the beach, Mr. Minsky was teeing up his latest townhouse listing, a three-story converted carriage house at 407 Vanderbilt Avenue on the Clinton Hill-Fort Greene border. It looks to us like the interior was completely gutted and renovated from scratch. We’re not particularly partial to nouveau traditional stylings (it feels kinda suburban to us) but the quality is probably decent and this is quite a large place (PropertyShark puts the square footage at 6,500). Nonetheless, the asking price of $3,500,000 seems aggressive. After all, it took the Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue a couple years to sell and it ultimately fetched only about $3,200,000. And that was back when you could get a decent jumbo mortgage.
407 Vanderbilt Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
And for god’s sake, this house is plenty far enough away from tlantic Yards.
That is not a new building, peeps– no whey. Nobody builds houses like this today, and if they attempted it, it wouldn’t be this successful–it also wouldn’t have this lovely color of brick, which oddly seems extinct anymore. Personally, I think it’s pretty damned sweet from the front; I love carriage houses, and this is one of the fancy ones. I would definitely like it better if it had some original details inside, but it looks like they did a pretty good job on the rehab. Bathroom looks pretty posh, arched window is great, etc.
Still, I agree with everybody that the price is looney. Pfizer mansion is way bigger, packed with period yummies, and on a better block (Washington Ave between Dekalb and Willoughby)–a busy block, but one that has no bus line, SRO, or school.
Dear NeoGrec,
Is it your opinion that everything is going down the tubes or just FG and CH? Or do you think that FG and CH are going to be separate and harder hit? I understand the concern of AY having an impact on property values there aside from the current state of affairs. So is it the whole area or just certain blocks close to the project? Do you think that the neighborhood is just shit and that people have lost their minds to buy there? Hey, I am open to listening.
This house belongs to the actor
Jeffry Wrights (chk SPL)
Is that flat screen tuned to Fox News? Horror!
Jerry, please take your meds. Really. neogrec did say something nice about your I think. Keep it in perspective.
There aren’t too many places in Brooklyn one could live that don’t have a bus either on your street, or on one of your corners. Sheesh, we complain public transportation is not convenient, and then we complain it’s too close. I’m near a corner near a busy bus route, and I don’t even hear them anymore. You can get used to anything. The Vandy bus is the only one that actually goes by the house, mentioning the other lines is just looking for things to complain about.
A Catholic High School is probably as good as it gets, if you have to have a school across the street.
Calm down, Jerry.
your comments never cease to disgust me, neogrec.
i hope you don’t have children to inflict your horrible attitude about EVERYTHING onto.