House of the Day: 590 2nd Street
The house at 590 2nd Street is quintessential North Central Slope goodness: Four stories of hardcore wood paneling and moldings, parquet floors and stained glass windows. The two-family house, which has been owned by the same family since 1994, is asking $3,200,000, which is about what we would have predicted. Does that sound on the…
The house at 590 2nd Street is quintessential North Central Slope goodness: Four stories of hardcore wood paneling and moldings, parquet floors and stained glass windows. The two-family house, which has been owned by the same family since 1994, is asking $3,200,000, which is about what we would have predicted. Does that sound on the money to you?
590 2nd Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
You know, i wasn’t sure that the action is where ever you hang your hat, when you have 3 bills, but then when he wrote, “period”, I thought he must be right.
If you’re a young college grad what are you doing living in milk toast, or “vanilla,” if you prefer, hood like the Slope? This is a place where people feel most comfortable surrounded by dark wood paneling.
Im not a fan of all the wood to the ceiling but I have to admit that in this house, it all looks pretty beautiful to me. You could have some pretty fabulous dinner parties in there 🙂
“If you’ve got three “bills” to spend, then the action is wherever you hang your hat. Period.”
Thank you–finally someone makes sense.
im a young college grad who thinks that brooklyn and the area surrounding park slope has just as much action as manhattan and with cheaper beer and prices overall. I only go out in the LES and East Village because my friends like to not because its my first option.
most of manhattan is for douches who go to Butter and shitty midtown bars.
“Am I the only person who finds that literally over the top woodwork extended to the ceiling a bit gloomy and oppressive?”
Yes Brooklynnative, you are.
Just joking–I’m sure you have a lot of company, but I hope no one who feels this way buys this house.FWIW these late 1890s houses are my personal favorite style
A couple of weeks ago I passed a four story on Midwood I, in PLG that has similar woodwork. The house was recently sold and the woodwork, which the previous owners had laborously striped, was painted white. I know it’s their house and they can do what they like to the interior, but my wife and I found it heartbreaking, as did a friend who was walking with us.
Also, RE: Rehab’s comment that “There are places out there with this kind of woodwork in this kind of condition–but not lots and lots of them”, this kind of detail is quite common in Lefferts Manor, probably because [most] houses here always remained single family–and because houses were built here in the late ’90s through 1910s. [I write this without any intention of starting a war–I realize that there are reasons why the Slope costs twice as much as LM].
sure, you can buy a 2 bedroom in manhattan for 3 million.
not a huge, beautiful house on one of the prettiest streets in new york.
how about trying to compare similar things. that makes a little more sense.
this house would be 7 million on the upper west side, 20 on the upper east and about 16 mil in the west village.
If you’ve got three “bills” to spend, then the action is wherever you hang your hat. Period.
2:50 wtf are you talking about? a rental? how about buying in manhattan. for 3 bills, you could live somewhere that isn’t so far from the action.