House of the Day: 58 6th Avenue
Character matters (as does the Atlantic Yards Effect). By all statistical measures, the four-story brick house at 58 6th Avenue should have found a buyer by now. After buying the house for $250,000 (typo? family transaction?) a year ago, the new owner put it back on the market for $1,850,000 last July, where it sat…
Character matters (as does the Atlantic Yards Effect). By all statistical measures, the four-story brick house at 58 6th Avenue should have found a buyer by now. After buying the house for $250,000 (typo? family transaction?) a year ago, the new owner put it back on the market for $1,850,000 last July, where it sat for eight months. In early March the price was cut to $1,795,000 and in late March again to $1,695,000. More than a proximity to Ratner-land, the problem in our opinion is the renovation. It’s got a bad case of personality disorder. As we’ve harped on again and again, a renovation that goes half-way to modern is likely to result in a house with no soul. No one (or at least anyone with any taste) wants to live in a mish-mash of architectural vernaculars. The seller better hope there’s someone out there looking to relocate from a McMansion in the burbs.
58 6th Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
not bad for a six month job , also you do 10 of these you score 1 mill per ,, you guys stay and figure it out while i spend my 10 mill, take care bk To bad you all came in to late ,
Too bad it is directly across from the a very busy police station! It is getting to price that is acceptable!
Too bad it is directly across from the a very busy police station! It is getting to price that is acceptable!
Bergen Bagels are NOT the greatest. They’re tolerable, but barely.
There’s two kinds of good bagels, and two kinds of good pizza. There’s Israel-style bagels, and puffy, doughy Brooklyn-style bagels. (Don’t mean flavorless rolls-with-holes, which are the third kind, i.e. *bad* bagels.) If you want good Israel-style bagels… then go to Israel. If you want good Brooklyn-style bagels, go to either Hot Bagels on Montague St., or to La Bagel Delight in Park Slope or Fort Greene. (Don’t know if the other LBD locations are as good as those one.)
Likewise, FYI, as to pizza: there is fancy sit-down restaurant brick-oven pizza, in which case you want Grimaldi’s or DiFara’s. But there’s also walk-out, everyday, by-the-slice pizza. The best is Fascati’s in Brooklyn Heights; also good is Ben’s in Park Slope, Nino’s in Cobble Hill, and Not Ray’s in Fort Greene.
Harriet is correct. This house came pretty close to crumbling into the street. I’m so glad it was saved — and from the outside it actually looks decent. Sure, the reno is less than fab but at least it’s clean and fairly neutral.
And hey, no dissing Bergen Bagels. They are the greatest!
I think this was a gut renovation, or it was a severely distressed building that needed a lot of work just to be habitable. It’s not like it had been a charming thing with lovely details.
Agreeing with 5:20… was just about to post the similar.
“As we’ve harped on again and again, a renovation that goes half-way to modern is likely to result in a house with no soul. No one (or at least anyone with any taste) wants to live in a mish-mash of architectural vernaculars.”
is silly. Intelligently combining new with old makes life interesting, better than living in a museum piece (new or old). House with no soul comes from thoughtlessness.
It’s a 15-footer. Maybe that’s why nobody wants it.
Now I’ve heard it. People living in Brooklyn who know where to find good bagels. Wow NY has really changed.