House of the Day: 299 Clermont Avenue
The four-story brownstone at 299 Clermont Avenue in Fort Greene just hit the market at an asking price of $1,899,000. While there’s only one interior photo in the listing, the verbiage says that there’s plenty of original details. The house is currently configured as four floor-through rentals. Only one is vacant but the other three…
The four-story brownstone at 299 Clermont Avenue in Fort Greene just hit the market at an asking price of $1,899,000. While there’s only one interior photo in the listing, the verbiage says that there’s plenty of original details. The house is currently configured as four floor-through rentals. Only one is vacant but the other three leases are expiring within the next 12 months. If all this is true, the asking price is probably pretty close to the mark. What do you think?
299 Clermont Avenue [Brenton Realty] GMAP P*Shark
I thought brownstones were really cool when they were cheap and kind of Bohemian.
Yeah, they creaked and were lopsided and had bathrooms only upstairs, but they were fun and not middle-class-american. They were funky for young people to set up their futons or for young marrieds to set up anti-suburban households, but now, these places are like bourgeoise palaces. appliances are german, decor is minimalist, housekeeping is immaculate. It is more Stepford wifes than Stepford. Brownstones have unfortunately fallen victim to the New York real estate happiness killer. Forget them. they were cool once but now they are pure desperate housewives.
beach haters?
Playa haters all.
“brownstones seem old fashioned, dark, dreary, over bearing and boring”
Dark – yeah maybe but that all depends on you choice of paint color, window treatments, choice of lighting, etc. Any residence can be dark.
Dreary – that all depends on your lifestyle and your friends
Over Bearing – yes, to someone who is not apt to doing a little work now and then.
Boring? – have you ever been in a brownstone?
Even the run-dwon still have more detail and character than the pieces of shit being built today. and before you answer, I’m an architect and I see a lot of shit out there. You’d be hard pressed to find anything that comes close to the inherent character of brownstones. Oh, did i mention i own and live in one.
That room with the tv looks awfully tight.
i think this about brownstones ALL THE TIME. i do not understand the obsession. do love brooklyn, so I read this site.
brownstones seem old fashioned, dark, dreary, over bearing and boring.
I highly doubt those things will be standing in 100 years.
4:10PM I was just thinking the same thing!
Human nature being what it is, you’re probably correct! 🙂
Yeah who knows maybe in a hundred years all those Fedders buildings will be in vogue!