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
Why would a great space in a great location in a great city be cheap, 2:32??
You sound nuts for thinking that nice things should come cheap…
2.7 million is the cost for a nice house in many other cities also…namely Seattle, San Francisco, parts of LA, DC, Boston.
Not to mention London, Tokyo, Zurich, Syndey, Dubai and Copenhagen.
Why should NYC be cheap? Just because you are??
At least Brownstoner has a bit of a sense of humor about recessed lighting. If you think it’s “ass” you’re entitled. Insulting others because you think you’re an arbiter of good taste is pretty weak. Glass pyramid comment was funny. what would Gehry have done to it?
boring little house.
take away the furniture…you have four walls….Yawn.
Great space, if it were cheap it would be great but 2.79 million is nuts.
People are nuts, there is no other explanation.
#1 – recessed lighting isn’t abhorrent becuase its new. You’re just not getting it.
2:03:
Oldest trick in the book. The new way is a new “hit” for the blog with every picture…
Gotta love it.
2:03
Don’t hate the man for wanting the page views. it’s the business he has chosen.
Lighting debate aside, whats makes the design of this so spectacular that IM Pei would have anything to do with it? Seems very standard – nice but not significant.
Hey Mr. B, what’s with the new way of doing photo slideshows? I liked the old way, where you didn’t have to reload the page to see the next pic.
Just my .02