House of the Day: 386 State Street
Holy Fried Green Tomatoes! A certain actress (hint: not Kathy Bates) has decided to bail on the Boerum Hill townhouse she picked up only last year. What the 12.5-footer lacks in width it makes up for in exposed wood beams and marble fireplaces. The asking price of $1,465,000 looks low on an absolute basis for…
Holy Fried Green Tomatoes! A certain actress (hint: not Kathy Bates) has decided to bail on the Boerum Hill townhouse she picked up only last year. What the 12.5-footer lacks in width it makes up for in exposed wood beams and marble fireplaces. The asking price of $1,465,000 looks low on an absolute basis for the neighborhood but when you consider the four-story house is only 1,680 square feet, they’re hardly giving it away. Especially when last year’s market-clearing price was $1,275,000. It also looks to us like the house is completely devoid of its crown moldings. Mon dieu!
386 State Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
While some people might prefer an apartment, I really believe most prefer a house. Otherwise, why don’t they predominantly build apartments rather than homes in suburbs? And not all expensive apartments, particularly in Brooklyn, have doormen, live in supers, porters, and various other amenities.
I’m sorry but I don’t agree at all, Sam.
I believe you are out of touch with Manhattan prices.
Here is a 920 square foot 1 bedroom/2 bath on the Upper East Side listed for 1.49 million.
I’d rather have a house any day of the week. Even this one.
Take a look at listings in Manhattan for 1.4 million. I just pulled up 7 pages worth of mostly 1000-1400 sf 2 bedrooms in less than ideal Manhattan locales. 64th and 3rd??? No thanks.
Again…I’d rather have a house and a yard.
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=780921
Not to beat a dead horse, but I cannot wrap my brain around the comment that this could be seen as an alternative to an apartment.
In what universe? Apartments, nice ones, ones that cost 1.4 million, have nice layouts, you can go from the bedroom to the bathroom without having to climb a flight of stairs. You can go from your front door to your bedroom without having to climb three flights of stairs. Plus nice apartments have services such as a doorman, a live-in superintendent, porters to help you with packages etc. This is a house, a narrow, dinky, lower-middle-class, house. No way that I could see it as an alternative to an equally priced apartment.
I think it’s better to think of this as an apartment alternative, rather than comparing it to other homes. In that sense, the price is pretty decent – apartments this size tend to go for much more than this.
is it mary louise parker?
And I pass by this house every day. Its on a nice block, definitely not prime Boerum Hill, but decent location, now even better because the homeless shelter around the corner is “gone daddy gone.”
But no yard! I can’t justify that price. but I’m sure someone else will.
I looked at the house in 2002, when it was priced at about 725k (from Corcoran). I remember thinking it was too small/narrow for the money. Hilarious to think about now. Back then, there were quite a few houses in Boerum Hill priced under a million, while the big houses on Dean were in the 1.3 range.
Well we’ll just have to wait and see what the house sells for then, won’t we.
I know you’ve been outraged at other prices on here Kuroko and have been wrong before.
But I’m happy to take one for the team also, if this ends up going your way and I’m wrong.
And no…I didn’t mean it like that.
Ok.
I did.
i don’t want a brownstone or to live in this neighborhood, but I think the place is pretty nice.
yes, the windows are misaligned. Otherwise how do you explain that empty space of brick wall to the right of the parlor window. The facade is messed up.