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
I bought a toasted bagel at Bergen Bagels last week and it was so tough that it cut the roof of my mouth. My friend had the SAME issue a few days later. Their bagels suck. And their tuna, egg salad, etc., are all dried out and gross.
Speaking of good bagels, anyone know where to get some? Everything lately are just rolls with holes. No density, lots of air, and puffed up like its a good thing. Can’t seem to get a good bagel in Brooklyn anymore. Short of some these over priced brick oven places (some are pretty good) the pizza sucks too.
Good bagels around the corner at Bergen Bagel. That should add at least #200k to the price, right?
Living here, you will hear the juvenile laughter and threatening yells of the adrenaline-hyped cops across the street.
The basketball games on the courts between Dean and Bergen, probably so. The nevergonnahappen stadium not so much.
“No one with any taste wants to live in a mish-mash of architectural vernaculars…”
That’s not only bad grammar, it also not true. I have great taste and I’d live in a house with this kind of renovation… if I got a good deal on it. A prime Brooklyn brownstone is still a prime Brooklyn brownstone… but a brownstone with beautiful restored period details is that much more, and should command a price premium. The problem is when you try to charge a premium when the details aren’t there and the reno sucks.
This house has a blah reno, but for the right price I’d still take it if that was the only problem. The more egregious problem here is the location, right across from the police station and down the block from the soon-to-be arena. After all, you can re-do a renovation, but you can’t pick up and move the house you buy.
There are some nice things about the house: two baths in each unit is pretty rare for a double duplex. (Maybe it was converted from a 4-family?) And it’s centrally located – an easy walk to Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill or Park Slope.
I bet it moves at $1.6M…ish.
Living here, you will hear the cheers of the fans at basketball games.
yes. a far cry from prime park slope, or prime prospect heights for that matter.
isn’t that still an unpleasant part of the neighborhood ?