House of the Day: 735 Decatur Street
Don’t let the vinyl siding fool you: This three-story, two-family house at 735 Decatur Street in Bedford Stuyvesant has lots of original detail that’s in surprisingly good shape. We can probably debate all day long about whether or not the asking price of $630,000 (according to the NYT listing) should be $20,000 or $30,000 less….
Don’t let the vinyl siding fool you: This three-story, two-family house at 735 Decatur Street in Bedford Stuyvesant has lots of original detail that’s in surprisingly good shape. We can probably debate all day long about whether or not the asking price of $630,000 (according to the NYT listing) should be $20,000 or $30,000 less. The bottom line is that this is by far the most charming house for the money on the market right now. Granted, it’s pretty far east—a block further and you’d be in Bushwick—but, whatever, we like it.
735 Decatur Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
735 Decatur Street [NY Times]
You know, I won’t feel at all sorry for the person who ends up with this house.
I’ll have nothing but contempt for him/her.
I think this is the same house for 570k?
http://www.elliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=917302
ZAch: the L train is on Bushwick Avenue and Aberdeen, not far away.
Putnam: A house closer to Clinton Hill is going to go for several thousand more than this place. There are some places in/near the Stuy Heights historic district that are cheaper (approx $350K), but they are fire damaged and probably a gut reno. That said, they would be cheper to buy and fix than this place. It is currently overpriced for the location.
My old vinyl siding dump looked like this, except slap an extra few decades of neglect on top. Beautiful apartment, although it may well have been beyond saving.
That said… not the best corner of Bed-Stuy. Or of Bushwick, for that matter. You’re pretty much in Ocean Hill at this point, and there’s probably a similarly decent house you could buy closer to, say, the L train.
Man oh man…what a sh&thole. I pity the sucker who ends up with this dump.
can we divide this blog in two parts? The investors, Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope folks can talk about 1 million plus properties, and the rest of us can talk about properties which are possibly within our reach. For most normal people, either they are going to cram themselves and their family into a small apartment in a “good” nieghborhood or they are going to take risks in a marginal neighborhood. I can’t believe so many people have spent time to trash this place. Especially so many “guests”. Looks good to me. Altho I’d prefer to get it on the Clinton Hill side of the neighborhood.
I don’t know the neighborhood, but the house is adorable inside–is that a fireplace in some sort of wacky kitchen? What a gem that could be. And I’d personally bestow one of my Siding Removal Grants* on this baby!
*Walter Mitty Dream #377: A foundation dedicated to subsidizing homeowners who would like to undo the work of the “tin men” on their row houses; we would start in Windsor Terrace…
Holy guacamole! What a craptacular bit of rubbish this house is. It’s time for someone to take it out back and put a bullet through its upper story.
Charming? Mr. Brownstoner is a true enigma.