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
The interiors look completely new to me but the facade looks original. Stoner says it is an old photo though, so maybe that beautiful old facade bit the dust?
I will explore this further this weekend.
I don’t get the comments about the suburban look. The interiors are fairly sophisticated. The huge arched window set between the two small rectangular windows is to die for.
Yeah, this is new. I remember when they were building it.
lovely restoration, but that interior—with the exception of the head—looks like a colonial in the ‘burbs.
If I’m not mistaken, this place is NEW construction–it was either a teardown or an empty lot, and the owner painstakingly built this to fit in with the streetscape.
Pshark says it was built in 2002, which sounds right.
The B38 is down the block, not on Vanderbilt.
The price seems a little high, but it’s a lot of square footage AND brand new construction–no (okay, less!) major house maintenance to deal with than an old carriage house or a brownstone.
Minsky Crack. Break-dancing in a mine field. The financial markets are going thru turmoil now.
We are heading for a depression. Please don’t call me chicken little, just look around you. America is fucked.
Bishop Loughlin is not accross the street…
Looks nice. But my parents paid 85k for their place one block down, and this block isn’t exactly quiet — B38 goes right by, BLHS is across the street, the SRO for the homeless is one block away, the north end of this block has the middle income housing project, etc..
3.5 is crazy talk.
Where’s the fourth floor?
To be fair, that exterior photo came from PropertyShark, since the listing failed to provide one. It’s likely that the owner cleaned up the exterior as well.