House of the Day: 60 Montgomery Place
Not that $3,450,000 ain’t a lot of dough, but sometimes it’s a reasonable price to pay for a house and sometimes it’s not. While it’s hard to tell exactly how much restoration work a new owner would have to invest, this house at 60 Montgomery Place in Park Slope has that something special that would…
Not that $3,450,000 ain’t a lot of dough, but sometimes it’s a reasonable price to pay for a house and sometimes it’s not. While it’s hard to tell exactly how much restoration work a new owner would have to invest, this house at 60 Montgomery Place in Park Slope has that something special that would at least get our attention were we in the market to write this kind of check. Currently configured as two duplexes, the house is 70-feet deep on the first three floors and has “large rooms and distinctive details,” according to the Townsley & Gay listing. The sellers have owned the place for close to two decades. Has anyone been inside recently? If you had to put a million bucks into it, think it could still be worth it?
Montgomery Place Mansion [Townsley & Gay] GMAP P*Shark
You can augment the rocks in your skull with the demolition rubble.
Would it be a travesty to remove the extension IF it is not original? Has anyone ever done that?
I believe the extension on this house is not original. It must have been added much later.
The differences between Manhattan and Brooklyn are as pronounced today as ever.
Lets face it, Manhattan is where the real money is. I love Brooklyn, but I like it because it is kind of crappy and run down and not everyone has a stick up their ass all the time, except maybe the people who have recently bought for megamillions and are having buyer’s remorse (can you hear me Heath?). 99% of Brooklynites are real people, family types, not Prada types. Whoever buys this house for 3 million dollars will probably regret it. Brooklyn is not Monaco, it is not Malibu, it is not SoHo. There are loads of poor people here, ethnic people here, and colored people here. we ain’t moving, and we ain’t becoming refined.
Wow, Townsley and Gay does get great listings. Thanks!
The two limestone mansions recently sold by Townsley & Gay, and shown on their site, look like MUCH better values than this house. They get some interesting listings.
It’s all anecdotal, though. For every “holy shit. I never knew this was here. And look what you get for the $” person you describe, there is another person who strongly believes Manhattan is unique and preferable over Brooklyn. The latter would rather live in a 1 BR than in a townhouse as long as they get to stay in Manhattan. It’s all about your personal preference and lifestyle choice. I don’t think any one group necessarily outnumbers the other.
this is to 2:23.
I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn. It was a choice between a loft in SoHo or a Brownstone in Brooklyn. I grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Brooklyn so I’m an O.G.. Brooklyn and Manhattan are now similar to the “Left and Right banks” of Paris. As years go on it will continue to become more seamless between the two. I know many Manhattanites who never even knew Park Slope exhisted. When they venture to my neighborhood they’re like “holy shit. I never knew this was here. And look what you get for the $.”
No, Berkeley & 8th had just been totally renovated with hi-end finishes and gadgets. See http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1070981&ohDat=