House of the Day: 466 5th Street
We like the look and feel of 466 5th Street, a four-story house within a gurney’s-roll from New York Methodist hospital. Except for the kitchen, which we’re not loving (just say no to granite!), the house has all the look and feel of an old Italianate brownstone, from the marble mantles to the pocket shutters….
We like the look and feel of 466 5th Street, a four-story house within a gurney’s-roll from New York Methodist hospital. Except for the kitchen, which we’re not loving (just say no to granite!), the house has all the look and feel of an old Italianate brownstone, from the marble mantles to the pocket shutters. Currently configured as a lower owner’s duplex topped by two floor-through rentals, the house has been in the same family for at least 20 years. Now that it’s time to cash out, the owners are looking to get $2,200,000. Think they will?
466 5th Street [Orrichio & Anderson] GMAP P*Shark
I’m not shopping for a house (we own one already) so I don’t know the history of the President Street house. I just happened to see the listing when going to the link for this HOTD, and it shows a heck of a lot better in the photos than the HOTD. This house shows like crap.
“Yuck on this house, but that broker has a cute and nicely finished house on President Street for $1.4 million. I’d go for that one instead, but make it a one-family.”
EVERY broker in Brooklyn has that President Street house. And not one of them can sell it! That house has been on the market forever.
what’s wrong with granite counter tops? huh? love… mine looks great and is so easy to clean, etc…. put anything and everything on it!
this kitchen here is just ugly that’s all.
CONCRETE!!! The very best counter top there is.
Granite is pure suburban dump. Nothing says tacky like granite.
Twenty years after we put in our kitchen, we’re still dreaming of trading up from laminate to Corian. How well prepared we are for the “new frugality,” should it descend upon us!
“what’s in now instead of granite?”
It’s not so much the granite countertop that looks off. It’s that plus a granite backsplash that isn’t so appealing, at least to me.
i agree, 1:59.
the granite looks good to me.
slap some white paint on those cabinets and some new floors (1000 bucks) and you’ve got a great new kitchen.
It has a huge extension which doesn’t feel in sync with the rest of the building. It was clearly carved up and abused inside. The backyard is the tiniest, most depressing, cement slab you’ve ever seen. It’s overlooked by crap on 7th around the corner.
Overall it has, IN MY OPINION, a very carroll gardens/cobble hill feel. You feel a lot more post-war lower middle class kitch than earlier victiorian, double-parlor grandeur. Anyone else get that? I always feel that in the CG/CH places which is why I can’t understand the very recent jump up in their pricing.
what’s in now instead of granite?
hand-hammered copper from special
artisinal makers in Nepal?
“Green” composite cellulose made with actual shredded money?
Antique never-used formica from circa 1964?
Gimme a break.
The only thing haf-decent about this dump are the nice granite counters, even the cabinets suck.