House of the Day: 491 3rd Street
[nggallery id=”21393″ template=galleryview] At least we know where I. M. Pei stands on the recessed-lighting issue! At some point, the famed architect designed the upper duplex of this four-story brick house at 491 3rd Street in Park Slope. (The lower two floors are floor-through apartments.) The design is nice enough, but other than the archway,…
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At least we know where I. M. Pei stands on the recessed-lighting issue! At some point, the famed architect designed the upper duplex of this four-story brick house at 491 3rd Street in Park Slope. (The lower two floors are floor-through apartments.) The design is nice enough, but other than the archway, there aren’t a lot of strong statements going on as far as we can tell. According to the listing, the two lower floor-through apartments have retained their historic details and will be delivered vacant. Given the location, the asking price of $2,795,000 probably isn’t too far off the market. The first open house is on Sunday from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
491 3rd Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
The garden is prettier than the interior which needs some color on those walls but then maybe it would look smaller.
Oh…and Paris=dog doo… Berlin too…
Sniff,
I don’t always get your comments. Relax. Don’t stress so much.
Anyway, let’s hear it for middle-aged gays!
Wahoo! Just won in Cali!
I don’t know about you’all, but I find the facade of this house is a mess. What a lousy “brownstoning” job. The house was uglified and lost detail. Sad.
They should drop the price a little to move this house. It’s a good location but an ugly string of rowhouses. Must have been decent in 1890 but that’s over 100 years ago.
To the first poster on this thread, gas was not a 100% of the lighting 100 yrs ago. Oil was still being used and then kerosene came in. There was lots of non-gas lighting and soon electric bulbs DID come in. Now, if you were talking 150 years ago, that’d be a different story. Our house was probably on oil lamps and candles originally…no gas…it was retrofitted later.
Now, on this whole discussion of living in other cities and European cities being so fabulous…hhhh… I’ve lived in big and small cities…in European cities, in Southeast Asia (a huge city) and Manhattan…and frankly:
I LIKE BROOKLYN!
Paris can be dirty, pee-stinking, polluted…tiresome with social unrest, homeless guys who accost you, military police hanging over you …attitudes of stressed inhabitants rushing around. When you live in a city and work there, you’re not in the same mode as when you visit.
Some cities are considered “livable†but they can play out pretty quickly sometimes. Amsterdam…plays out…Aachen…tiny…Geneva…ugh.. Berlin…too complicated to comment on here but it has its issues. Madrid… okay but issues…
It depends on what you find livable, what culture you jive with…and then…most people benefit from an eventual change of scene.
There are lots of pretty livable small cities in the US that no one ever seems to mention. Though cities in Western Europe may seem lovely, and even if they have better social services and safety nets, they still have their poverty and depressing housing…now, honestly, our plight in the US is worse on that level. But, yes, there are some nice smaller cities in the US that are not doing that badly and are picturesque.
J’AI DEUX AMOURS: MON PAYS ET BKLYN!
Why are they selling?
No, 5:39, it was the guests yesterday who criticized me and Dave for getting in the way and halting the garden discussion so I’m pointing out how silly they were since nobody is commenting on gardens today when I’m staying away from teh topic. It has nothing to do with hypocrisy. I’m sorry that simple concept is so tough for you to grasp. I’ll use smaller words next time, ok?
you didn’t post a single comment on the garden, biff but are criticizing people here for not doing so?
what would your kids say about your hypocrisy?
Wow, 5:28, I think the only thing worse than a loser, is someone like you who continues to be baited into responding to a “middle aged, ambiguously gay loser.” 🙂
Your turn…
i don’t wish.
i’m not into middle aged, ambigously gay losers.