House of the Day: 242 Washington Avenue
We had already started to write up 242 Washington Avenue as a House of the Day when it hit us: We’ve been inside that house. We were guests at a lovely al fresco dinner party last summer. In fact, Mrs. B had just been talking about how the owner’s duplex would make a good interiors…
We had already started to write up 242 Washington Avenue as a House of the Day when it hit us: We’ve been inside that house. We were guests at a lovely al fresco dinner party last summer. In fact, Mrs. B had just been talking about how the owner’s duplex would make a good interiors post. Given the conflict of interest, we’ll steer clear of opining about the $2,300,000 asking price, and just say that the owner’s duplex of this five-story, 5,500-square-foot house is really nicely done in a simple but elegant manner. We’ve never seen the upper three rental units, but judging from the photos they’re not as nice. They do, as the listing points out, generate over $50,000 a year in income. This’ll be an interesting one to watch.
242 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
BTW, the listing has been pulled from the Corcoran site. Presumably they plan to swop in some more current pics.
well, Carroll Gardens has become the most desirable residential neighborhood in brownstone brooklyn. If Park Slope is Florence, Carroll Gardens is Siena. Cooler, less crowded, more genuine.
And it is like five minutes to the FDR or the West Side Drive via the tunnel.
Plus it has become real expensive which is always good for keeping out the schmutz and God forbid, the hipsters!
It is my recollection that Jerry sold a half-a-house on Grand Avenue for $1.65M and the other half for $1.55M. If anyone can sell it in any market Jerry can. Now leave the man alone, get a life or a better job and buy a brownstone in Clinton Hill to live in for a long time and love.
Britney appears to be mentally ill – would you dis her like that if she had brain cancer?
You are the reason that she continues to be exploited by the press.
We almost bought this house when it was on the market in 1999 and Naida McSherry was still a realtor in Clinton Hill. List price? $400,000.
We pulled out because it was then coded an SRO and we didn’t have the experience and/or nerve to convert the C of O. Back then, the house needed lots of work but it was magnificent nonetheless. It’s built on a very grand scale: deep (probably 50 ft) with a large rear extension on the ground floor. Oh, that was the other catch, a rent control tenant lived down there. Don’t know what happened to him. The ceilings are very high throughout — even on the 5th floor. And there were still great details that had survived it’s former life as a boarding house. The original staircase was completely intact and I remember how solid and straight it was compared to some of the crazy ruins we were looking at back then.
I’ve been inside countless brownstones and have served on the Prospect Heights house tour committee for several years but I’ve never forgotten this house. There was a mummified dead cat in the cellar when we looked around and one of the upstairs rooms had a police notice on the door, “Premises of DOA. Do Not Enter.” Those anecdotes sound creepy but actually the house wasn’t spooky at all.
I am not a broker and I won’t bother to comment on the current asking price. I just had to comment because it’s a one of a kind place. I’d love to see it again, post-renovation.
Oh my God its true!
Oh my God its true!
I heard Britney is going to snap up one of those 3 million dollar Carroll Gardens townhouses y’all.
Where is the What?