House of the Day: 165 Columbia Heights
When the Watchtower Group announced last spring that it would ratchet up the liquidation of its Brooklyn Heights holdings, one of the properties in the goody bag was 165 Columbia Heights, a two-story carriage house on one of the most desirable stretches of the Heights. For the last six years, the 4,172-square-foot house has been…
When the Watchtower Group announced last spring that it would ratchet up the liquidation of its Brooklyn Heights holdings, one of the properties in the goody bag was 165 Columbia Heights, a two-story carriage house on one of the most desirable stretches of the Heights. For the last six years, the 4,172-square-foot house has been used as guest quarters for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It looks to be in good shape and there’s a highly-coveted three-car garage as well. But still, $7,200,000? We shall see.
165 Columbia Heights [NY Times] GMAP P*Shark
Good Lord! Watchtower Divesting Six Heights Props [Brownstoner]
New Yorkers tend to be non-car lovers. Go figure, cars are the single most beautiful products of our time and civilization. They are our real architecture. But most of these sweet buildings with perfect garages are altered so as not to house a car. What a waste.
car lover from Brooklyn
(Yeah, sue me, eat my upholstery)
people pay 350K for a rooftop cabana overlooking the projects a half a mile away.
anything is possible.
Ummm 1.46 Did I miss your sarcasm? Otherwise just who exactly is going to pay $4,166.66 a month for a parking spot? And while the ad says the garage has room for three cars can each of them get out without the others needing to be moved?
Oooh, primo house porn! What a great building! I could live with what they did in there. I’d only have to open up the fireplace, change the countertop in the kitchen, and put my stuff in there, since it will be blissfully empty.
Just dreaming, as the price is in the stratosphere. But as 1:42 said, if someone likes it enough, it’ll sell. This is one of those one of a kind, special places. A rich Euro banker will snap it up soon enough.
A very cool place.
7 million is a stretch, a big stretch. This house is on the non-view side of the street.
This seems like another one of those properties that languish for months and years on the market.
Any action on the little house on Garden Place shown here a few weeks back? That was four million, and is way nicer.
the crack is sweet and tasty
the garage is worth 100K a year easy if you rent two of them out.
Btw, anticipating the usual hysteria, I was not suggesting Manhattan is always preferable to Brooklyn. We own a house in Brooklyn and wouldn’t live elsewhere. But from a purely investment standpoint when looking at the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood which does command Manhattan prices sometimes, you do need to make the comparison.
Funny, the thing that made my eyes light up was that big garage! Wow.
What’s not lighting up is the house itself. Very dark. Despite the skylights. Having no windows and just skylights only can be intimate and serene but in the end it limits your buyers. Most would hate that. I would never have done a dark kitchen and browns, rusts and tans for the interior in this house. Such the wrong way to go. It needs color and brightness. A totally modern interior done like a loft is what would work. You could make those interior rooms with the skylights look like art galleries if done right.
As for price, dang, you can get a better house in the West Village for this. Wouldn’t have a garage but still, Manhattan baby. This is priced too high.