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
1:59 – I am NOT wrong.
Landmarks will approve roof top additions only if they are NOT visible from the street.
And being a corner house, a roof top addition will be visible from across the street.
Landmarks will require a temporary structure be erected on the roof the size and shape of the proposed addition. The assigned examiner will come down and inspect it, go across the street and look at it. If the property is not a corner, they will walk 50′ in either direction. If they see it, kiss your addition goodbye, or scale it down.
Sure you can try, but good luck wasting your time.
“at the time it was going for @1.85. pre fix up.”
it’s still pre fix
The landmarks commission is open to many things as long as it is in keeping with the historic character of the district. A modest (not huge) rooftop addition and fenestration changes on the side wall are definite possibilities, the trick is to work with an experienced architect that knows how to work with the commission staff. this house is hideous right now, it is painted fire engine red and has stark white windows and garage doors. It will look so much better and classier with a more appropriate color scheme and with other upgrades. The commission loves to work with people who are upgrading their houses, they really do, i have been through it, it isn’t bad at all.
another property destined to sit and sit and sit
Price would only make sense if the garage area is buildable for a second house. Seems like nicely finished houses (usually two family) on Dean + Pacific go for about $2.0 mm. Hard to see $2.45 million for a house that needs renovation, even with parking.
P.S. the house will show better in the spring when those 3 flowering cherry trees are in bloom.
$2,495,000 for an empty shell a block from the projects? I’ll take Plan D.
i love this building.
and you are wrong, 1:54.
1:51, I did until my camera (and I) got flattened when the woman on the right with the beige coat realized she left her Crave Case at White Castle, did a uey and ran the other way on Bond.
1:47 – Landmarks WILL NOT approve a roof top addition to this house. You’d be able to see it. And Landmarks doesn’t like that.
so this crappy building will have to stay crappy.