House of the Day: 150 Bond Street
We all know that Boerum Hill is hot (as hot as anything can be called in this market, that is), but is it really hot enough to justify a three-story gut job asking $2,495,000? Don’t think so. This is a nice looking house from the outside and all, and the three-slot parking garage is worth…
We all know that Boerum Hill is hot (as hot as anything can be called in this market, that is), but is it really hot enough to justify a three-story gut job asking $2,495,000? Don’t think so. This is a nice looking house from the outside and all, and the three-slot parking garage is worth a premium as well, but still…all the current owner has done is get the project approved by DOB and Landmarks and put in new steel beams. What are we missing here?
150 Bond Street [Brooklyn Bridge Realty] GMAP P*Shark
Hilarious! This ain’t no Heath and Michelle pad by any stretch…even with the parking.
Bergen is a noisy bus route, Bond is a noisy pedestrian route. The bodega across the street is great as far as bodegas go and you are only one block from the Brooklyn Inn…but so what.
If this guy can walk away without owing any debt on it they should take it and count their blessings.
Course if you COULD add side windows, and could build up a floor above the garage (basically rebuilding the entire garage structure), you’d have one killer house – with light everywhere, garage space, and a nice deck (forget the roof) just outside the top floor. Now that would be sweet – and very expensive to build!
no way it’s going for $2.5 mil when it’s going to require at $1 mil to renovate.
also, the listing is incorrect to say 3 floors plus a basement, they mean 3 floors and a cellar from what i’m seeing in the photo. big difference.
oh, and on the roof addition, LPC would probably approve a small roof deck and bulkhead, but with restrictions. definitely not a full floor added on.
Price aside, I love corner brownstones. Lived in a floor of one with windows all down the side – very light, no dark interior like most side-by-sides. Pity this one doesn’t have more side windows. Wonder if it was built that way, or had more originally. Would want to add some if I lived here – wonder if Landmarks would let you do that.
Also, I’d kill for adjacent garage space. Wouldn’t build a building there. Some garages like this in the slope have studio (maybe apartment?) space above the garages. Wonder if landmarks lets you add that, if you do it in character, when it wasn’t there originally. That’s what I’d want to build there – go for the elegant carriage house look.
“Somebody just got fired from their investment banking job, eh?”
Ding Ding!!!!!
“Selling mid-reno on a single family gut job?!
I’m preparing my low-ball bid now…
9/17/07 – Deed for $1.75MM
12/31/07 – Get canned from Merrill Lynch
03/03/08 – Realize in over head with expensive gut reno, list with shitty local R/E broker at insane mark-up to basis.
06/03/08 – No bites, price chop by $500k”
Fuck em! Why throw them a life line. I bet you couldn’t talk to this fuck last year.
“this site gets more disgusting by the day.”
No you mean this Fucking site gets more disgusting by the day.
Hey Brownie. How about doing things in the fucking neighborhood you live in, HUH??!!!
The What ( Yes I love it)
Someday this war is gonna end…
A good architect can get a lot through the commission the trick is to insist on a hearing. the staff are rather limited as to what they can approve without a hearing, the commissioners who decide matters at the hearings are grown up professionals and very reasonable, they are more reasonable than the staff who are over-educated and under-payed.
“this has the potential to be like the michelle williams/heath ledger house with a nice renovation.
probably would go for 4 million when it’s done.”
ha-ha
“How could you possible justify $2.5 for this??”
Desperation!
Please. Last weeks biggest sales there is a nicer 4 story house in the same block for $1.35 mil. How could you possible justify $2.5 for this??