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
If the rentals generate $75K than that could cover about $1.2 mm of mortgage which means you’re getting the duplex for about $1.6 mm. That doesn’t seem like the greatest deal in the world to me.
I lived in London and find Brooklyn very similar to a lot of London neighborhoods. Low rise, kind of green (greener than Manhattan but unfortunately not nearly as green as London) + very neighborhood oriented. Even is not as much as it used to be.
Hey,
I’m the one who brought up IM Pei in the last discussion regarding recessed lighting. you will recall my point that it is not at all unusual to mix disparate styles to good effect as in his addition of a glass pyramid to The Louvre in Paris. I’ll stand on my original point, contradictions in style are what make for interesting juxtaposition as in a floorstanding antique wooden radio in the middle of a glass and steel modernist room, or a pair of sleek speakers at either side of an art nouveau carved fireplace mantle. think outside the box folks and make your own style in life, after all, when they first hooked up those brownstones to electricity it was the turn of the century equavilent of hooking up your house to broadband wireless. or perhaps we should be sticking to the hardwired electrical wiring sheathed in cotton cloth like some brownstones still have behind their walls.
i actually kinda like the faux stone facade for some reason…
that is one fugly facade on the house next door.
Most of the posters on this site are such assholes I have to say.
You bunch of granite-haters!
“We newcomers,” goombah.
I know 3 people who lived in New York and moved to San Francisco. All were back within 3 years.
They said it was boring as hell and they missed the energy that only New York seems to have.
Well most people have it. Clearly not 3:23. Luckily he’s leaving soon anyway, hopefully.
I lived in Seattle for years and while the quality of life is great, it rains constantly nine months of the year and the people tend to be passive/aggressive and bland as oatmeal without brown sugar. Now I live a block away from this spectacular place. Hope it fetches 2.7M so I feel good about my 700 sq. feet.