House of the Day: 551 3rd Street
The four-story brownstone at 551 3rd Street changed hands in 2004 for $1,900,000; the new owner proceeded to do a pretty serious renovation as well as an over-the-top interior design that maybe be a bit much for some people. But if you can look past the chintz, this is certainly a beautiful house with tons…
The four-story brownstone at 551 3rd Street changed hands in 2004 for $1,900,000; the new owner proceeded to do a pretty serious renovation as well as an over-the-top interior design that maybe be a bit much for some people. But if you can look past the chintz, this is certainly a beautiful house with tons of original detail on one of the more desireable blocks in The Slope. The asking price of $3,750,000 looks high to us (by a few hundred thousand dollars) but the fact that it needs no work could work in its favor. Think it has a shot at getting asking price?
551 3rd Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Smartmom doesn’t snark, but she does straight facedly compare her sixteen year old kid to Dylan, Bob.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/43/30_43smartmom.html
Yes, the “Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn” is tiresome. Don’t bother with it.
Well, this thread certainly got a ton of comments today.
Listen kids, the baby boom going on right now in NYC is partly due to all the boomlet kids aging into parenthood. The huge swell of children from 1945 to 1962 (what was it?…the number of children tripled in just the bunch of years after WW II?) cascaded into a boom of children being born to that generation and now the boomers’ kids are having babies.
Yes, the interior of this house reminds me of a nightmare overpriced B&B we once stayed in and the kitchen of a good friend who is unfortunately stuck in that mode. She’s the salt of the earth but we don’t share the same tastes.
FG/TheGrammarLady
get a 2nd job.
Of course, 4:38! My working class parents took me to the country house every weekend when I was growing up. We took a Shortline bus up to the bungalow colony in the Catskills. The rest of my friends were away at camp.
I don’t know, I keep reading that the national market declines will finally hit NYC, and that we are aiming for a recession, and a lot of people on this blog blithely talk about how $3 mil for a brownstone worth at least $1 mil less a few years ago is totally normal.
Was the person saying they sold their UWS apt for 2.7 (bought for 350) serious? I find that pretty shocking. Sometimes it’s hard to tell on here what is parody and what is real, esp since the NYC real estate market has gotten so surreal. Our PS 3BR/2BA apt, bought in early 2002 for high 400’s, is now worth high 900s, but crossing the million dollar mark seems like a big hurdle, given the mansion tax. How the hell are folks like us supposed to trade up?
Isn’t she Smartmom? Ugh.
She doesn’t snark.
Oh Jeez. This list is just a snarky parody right?
6:09, it is a pretty ridiculous blog (and its blog master) responsible for such gems as the Park Slope 100 list, in which many people are thanked, including the blog master’s housekeeper, and the nannies of Park Slope.
If you ask me, it’s a PR nightmare for an already embattled Park Slope.
http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/the_park_slope_100/