House of the Day: 36 Otsego Street
This two-story house at 36 Otsego Street in Red Hook ain’t much to look at from the outside but given the recent price cut(s), it might be getting kinda interesting. The 1,600-square-foot house started out asking $1,200,000 back in January. It was reduced to $995,000 within two weeks (!) where it sat until last Friday…

This two-story house at 36 Otsego Street in Red Hook ain’t much to look at from the outside but given the recent price cut(s), it might be getting kinda interesting. The 1,600-square-foot house started out asking $1,200,000 back in January. It was reduced to $995,000 within two weeks (!) where it sat until last Friday when it was axed again to $850,000. While the interior of the house looks a little better than the exterior, the interesting part of the story is the adjacent lot with an existing two-car garage and 1,800 square feet of air rights. Waddya think?
36 Otsego Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
“There are bars on almost every garden level window in Brownstone Brooklyn”
That’s not the garden level on the house above.
Btw Jerr, check your email.
According to the floorplan, there’s no bathroom in the second floor. If you really have to go at 3 am, make sure you don’t trip down the stairs.
Jerr/Dave, please try not to hijack the thread! Anyway, I love the perspective of the photo, it looks like the house is about to tip over. I’m mesmerized and I can’t stop staring at it. Maybe it really is about to tip over, in which case I’m not paying a penny more than $848,000!
Yeah 2:34, where do you live???
There are bars on almost every garden level window in Brownstone Brooklyn, 2:34. These here are just not as beautiful.
There are some sort of bars/fence on the windows. Telling me to KEEP AWAY!
Okay, I just juxtaposed the phrase in the Corcoran blurb, “At 1600 sq ft (with a buildable basement)”, with the floor plan. Shit, the house is 20′ x 28′, or 560 SF per floor. So when Corcoran says 1,600 SF they’re INCLUDING the cellar which is patently more than 50% below grade. It may be “buildable” space but it sure as hell ain’t habitable! $850,000 / 1,120 SF = $760/SF. In Red Hook next to two school bus yards? Yeah, right!
Could make a fabulous beer garden – what a great way to end your ikea/chelsea market/fairway shopping spree.