House of the Day: 158A Nevins Street
This small brick house at 158A Nevins Street in Boerum Hill certainly isn’t cheap on a per square foot basis but, regardless of size, we suspect that the prospect of a house in Boerum Hill for $1,229,000 (especially one that’s in good shape) will be enough to get a few folks out of their barcaloungers…
This small brick house at 158A Nevins Street in Boerum Hill certainly isn’t cheap on a per square foot basis but, regardless of size, we suspect that the prospect of a house in Boerum Hill for $1,229,000 (especially one that’s in good shape) will be enough to get a few folks out of their barcaloungers this weekend. The house, which is less than 16 feet wide and only 36 feet deep, sits on a shorter-than-normal lot of 67 feet. But if you’re a house person, this is going to look pretty good compared to a similarly priced apartment, like this loft on 12th Street. Agree?
158 1/2 Nevins Street [Corcoran] P*Shark
i was going to comment but I will never be able to afford that.
I agree that this is a fairky crappy little house in a bad location. Anyone paying more than a million American dollars for it has my best wishes.
“Why buy a shoebox in Boerum Hill when you can get a palace in Ft Greene or Clinton Hill for the same money without those gosh awful projects.”
really? please show us the listings!
I really like the Ansonia loft the best…we lived on 12th Street between 8th and the Park for many years… I can remember when
all the old factory buildings between 7th and 8th Ave. were derelict eyesores… what a difference 30 years can make! 🙂
I’m not sure why you have to knock CG in your defense of Boerum Hill. I live in CG and kind of consider all of them (CG, BH and Cobble HIll) more or less the same neighbhorhood since, esp when you have children, you wander in and out of all of them several time a day. I agree that the streets of BH are beautiful and it’s my favorite sub-neighb of this area – if projects are the issue for people, doesn’t FG have a good dose of projects as well? Or are they all in Clinton HIll?
All the people railing against Boerum Hill are just pissed they can’t afford to live there–in one of the gorgeous, light-filled 1850’s houses on Dean, Pacific, and Bergen. Those three blocks of BH are as nice as anything you’ll find in Brooklyn Heights, only without the boring preppy vibe (and houses in 2 mill range, not 6). Plus, those of us who live there appreciate the ethnic mix/diversity. We have white, black, latino, and a sizable arab population, too. Atlantic Avenue is chicest shopping strip in Bklyn. Bistros and food stores on Smith are a few blocks away. And, yes, we have every train. Also, you can park your car on the street and whiz into the city in fifteen minutes–straight up Atlantic and over the Brooklyn Bridge. Fort Greene has no grocery stores or trains. Carrol Gardens is boring.
i seem to remember looking at this house when it was up for sale in 2004–at around $700k (though i could be misremembering the price–maybe it was $799k?). it was on the market for awhile. its cute inside– not huge, but the yard is nice. what the photo doesn’t show is the bodega two doors down. though its one of the few places i think you can still get a $1 20oz soda, the noise from the guys who like to hang out outside to me would be an annoyance. that said, all this talk of the projects– whatever. god forbid you should be reminded that not everyone is as privileged to own a house. its no more or less safe than just around the corner on tree-lined bergen, you also are a short walk to almost every subway, and on the corner of bergen & nevins you’d have a laundromat, car service, cafe, and around the corner, a rather awesome clothing store.
There are innumerable projects in Boerum. Theres no use pretending they dont exist.
I would personally refrain from anything in the immediate area of any of the projects.
However, it seems these projects dont affect quality of life in other parts of the neighborhood.
Smith Street is only a block away; yet, it’s thriving.
Boerum Hill is not a Brownstone area and could only dream of being Fort Greene.