House of the Day: 135 Joralemon Street (Revisited)
Our coverage of the charming, and charmingly restored, house at 135 Joralemon Street is bordering on the obsessive, but there’s something that keeps bringing us back. First it was the tragic fire that gutted it almost three years ago; then the fact that it just sat there for a good year and a half, and…
Our coverage of the charming, and charmingly restored, house at 135 Joralemon Street is bordering on the obsessive, but there’s something that keeps bringing us back. First it was the tragic fire that gutted it almost three years ago; then the fact that it just sat there for a good year and a half, and then that someone undertook a painstaking renovation. And then they kept our attention by putting it on the market with Brown Harris Stevens early this past summer and slapping a $5,950,000 price tag on it. In September, the asking price was trimmed to $5,750,000 and it still didn’t sell. Now Corcoran’s been given the listing and reintroduced the property with a shiny new price of $5,250,000. Think this latest reduction will be enough?
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Mr B,
Please remove the 12:10am guest link to a suicide video. Its real and there is no reason for it to be posted here.
Well, the current owner bought it for $2.4 almost exactly one year ago. Of course they did not put $3 million into restoring this house. So screw them, restoration or not.
7:33, I can’t agree with you more. All those gazillionaires INHERITED their brains, determination and talent from their parents, for God’s sakes. Shouldn’t those qualities be equal for everyone everywhere? Shouldn’t we hold back kids who show signs of distinction in a given field? Life is so unfair in America!
At least in Europe, they pass money and status down to their kids regardless of their brains, competence or character. Here, nobody gives a fk what your name is or who your daddy plays golf with; you actually have to have your daddy’s (or mommy’s, or uncle Vinnie’s) gift for something to stand out and survive.
What a scam.
I looked at a co-op next door on the ground floor and the subway shook the entire place. I would think it has to affect the lower floors of this house.
Well, considering a fire gutted this house, all or most of the original details were destroyed. For my money, a restoration done with replicas of everything, as opposed to the originals, don’t warrant that much dough.
Mayor Bloomy here. Already have a big town house on the east side where this shack would be an outhouse. Already bought the daughters big co-ops in the city. No thanks.
I just love this beautiful old farmhouse…
glad that it was restored…
Would love to be making my Thanksgiving dinner there! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Dear 7:33, Money is harder to earn for some people than for others. No one with this kind of money had to work very hard for it. Are you new to the capitalist system?
Some people have no concept of what money actually is and how hard it is to earn, keep and spend.