House of the Day: 144 Underhill Avenue
This 4-story, 23-foot wide brownstone at 144 Underhill Avenue is a beauty but it’s priced as if it were on the other side of Flatbush Avenue. The more we look at the photos of this place, the more we like it—the woodwork, the multiple exposures, the old extension. (Don’t forget the two-car garage.) It all…
This 4-story, 23-foot wide brownstone at 144 Underhill Avenue is a beauty but it’s priced as if it were on the other side of Flatbush Avenue. The more we look at the photos of this place, the more we like it—the woodwork, the multiple exposures, the old extension. (Don’t forget the two-car garage.) It all adds up to one heck of a place. We just don’t think the market’s ready to bear a $2,750,000 asking price in this location yet.
144 Underhill Avenue [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
“lots of crime” is an overstatement…the area had a bit of an ipod mugging spree for a few months in late 07/early 08…just around the same time a mugging spree hit beloved park slope. Hasn’t been much of a problem since.
The gunfire incidents were obviously more troublesome….allegedly tied to a brownstone down the street, which is was recently put up for sale and is subject to a large tax lien. So hopefully that problem goes away soon too.
hahaha … do we still get to call people “urban pioneers” if they have $2.7M to spend?
so… which is it then, the Armenian museum or the Kurdish library?
Holy Batman, that’s a lot of ivy. That stuff is extremely damaging to the facade, factor in additional repairs. It also suggests physical neglect–my money says that the current owners have not been kind to their home.
I really dont see a family spending 2.7 mil to live here.
Maybe a management company.
Cut that price in half, then cut a little more, and you’re getting closer to a realistic price.
This is, I believe, the location of the Armenian Holocaust Museum. It was on the Prospect Heights house tour a few years ago. That use may explain the location of the kitchen (institutional use on first 2 floors with residence above). I believe the ivy-fears are overstated, altho there was a time when colleges were slaughtering ivy left and right.
I’ve never checked it out, but 144 Underhill is the Kurdish Library and Museum—that explains the glass display cases.
1:43’s “this is not the safest area” is way off. Sure, there have been incidents in the past year, but I live in this nabe and have been out on this very corner at all hours and it’s country quiet. I’ve never felt unsafe.
I have to agree with the other posters that $2.75M is too high. the place can sell for close to $2M though, although kitchen and baths that I can see on Brklyn Properties Web site appear in need of updates.
according to the listing, the building is 19 feet wide, not 23 (that’s the lot width). so this will probably go for below ask, but still over $2m.