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
Caveat: just because leases “expire” doesn’t mean the units are not rent stabilized or similar. Rent stabilized leases expire, and the landlord has to renew them under law.
Perfect timing 3:18! On my lunch break today, I read the following quote from an 1899 Architectural Record article by a Montgomery Schuyler, printed in Lockwood’s book (p. CP 57):
“This nefarious structure [the brownstone house]… became epidemic…between 1850-1880…from Fourteenth Street to Fifty-Ninth Street it raged and prevailed.
The ordinary brown-stone front was thus a series of pretentious shams, and with these shams miles of the streets of New York were and are composed. To live in and among them, to become inured to them, was to suffer a depravation of taste the more pitiable for being unconscious. The brown-stone front was enough to vulgarize a whole population, and in our case it case near succeeding.”
I do love brownstones, though.
3:18 PM
I LOVE IT!
Nineteenth century writers railed against the monotony of the brownstone streets in NYC.
Here is yet another multi-million-dollar brownstone palace, in some undistinguishable block, interchangeable with a hundred other blocks containing thousands of cookie-cutter brown rowhouses.
I’m so over it. These houses are monotonous.
I’m logging off due to ARCHITECTURAL ENNUI.
Well yes, an LLC bought it in 2006. Selling only a year later.
If Brenton Realty has the listing it surly has to be a flip. There’s always a catch with them.
Meh.
L U S H L E S H ! ! !
This was on the market in the winter/spring with flateu realty. Not sure what price. It was HOD if I recall.