House of the Day: 24 Clifton Place
There’s a lot to recommend this three-family brownstone at 24 Clifton Place in Clinton Hillbeautiful old floors and moldings, a new kitchenbut, unfortunately, price isn’t one of them. Even without the unfortunate exposed brick, this place seems to us to be a big stretch at the asking price of $1,750,000. Clifton Place certainly has its…

There’s a lot to recommend this three-family brownstone at 24 Clifton Place in Clinton Hillbeautiful old floors and moldings, a new kitchenbut, unfortunately, price isn’t one of them. Even without the unfortunate exposed brick, this place seems to us to be a big stretch at the asking price of $1,750,000. Clifton Place certainly has its charms but in this market, we’re thinking that $1,600,000 is a more likely number. That said, the three-story house next door did sell for $1,370,500 last year, so it’s not impossible. Those were different times, though,
24 Clifton Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
i hope you enjoy renting your $10,000 a month 1 bedroom rental when you retire!!! (which at the rate of rental increases is what the rent will be in 2035)
gonna be a little tough on a fixed income…
8:56: So you are gonna buy a house with your WIC checks then? Didn’t think so. I hope you enjoy moving repeatedly as your rent goes up but your paycheck doesn’t.
Rent check is due on Saturday!
8:45 is right. These houses might be nowhere near $750k.
They could be much, much less.
Uh, not exactly. He had a “window installation business an Staten Island” but hung out on Clifton Place at noon treating kids to sneakers? Don’t believe everything you read in the Times. The dispute involved the activity that’s gone on on that block for years, and this was not a flash in the pan. Nor was it the first shooting related to the activity at the corner.
so the world ends in 2010, 6:12? Until, of course, we get to 2010 and you are still renting and these houses are nowhere near $750k? So bitter.
Found this piece from the NYTimes. It is a truly sad story. And it sounds like the whole street is getting a bad rap when in fact one sociopathic cockroach with a gun chased him here. This could happen in any neighborhood and we all know it. It just feels better to imagine it couldn’t.
“Witnesses to the shooting, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they feared the gunman, described a tumultuous scene, with gunshots ringing out while bystanders scrambled into buildings or ducked behind cars. They said the gunman shouted angrily as Mr. Sumpter lay bleeding, then walked calmly away.
One witness said that just before noon, she saw Mr. Sumpter running toward her on Clifton Place pursued by a man with a pistol. The witness said she ran through the open front door of 22 Clifton Place, which was being renovated by contractors, and looked back to see Mr. Sumpter lying prone at the top of the building’s stoop.
Then the gunman came into view, she said, standing over Mr. Sumpter and firing. The witness hid in the rear of the brownstone, she said, and heard several shots. Afterward, she said, she heard the gunman taunting Mr. Sumpter with obscenities.
“He yelled out: ‘You think I’m a joke! I told you not to play with me!’ †she said.
Workers in the brownstone hid on the ground floor when they heard shots, then came upstairs to find Mr. Sumpter gasping on the floor, just across the threshold, said Sam Saliman, 31, from Bay Ridge, who was working inside the building.
Residents of the block remembered Mr. Sumpter yesterday as a man who had had a troubled youth but had turned his life around, moving from Clinton Hill, getting married and starting a window installation business based on Staten Island. Friends said that he and his wife had four children: a boy and three girls ages 7 to 16.
Mr. Sumpter, who grew up in Clinton Hill in the 1980s before the area became more gentrified, stayed in touch with many who remained, and involved himself in the lives of young people in his old neighborhood, paying for sneakers or haircuts, and arranging basketball games or trips to amusement parks, friends said.
Yesterday afternoon, residents of Clifton Place displayed a photograph of Mr. Sumpter, hugging two small children and smiling with delight.
“He was caring and generous,†said Janae Archer, 19. “He was somebody you looked up to.â€
Standing next to her on the street, Kahif Cole, 17, agreed.
“I feel depressed,†he said. “Clifton Place is going to miss him.â€
Yesterday, witnesses to the shooting of Mr. Sumpter said that they recognized his attacker, a local man who they said was rumored to carry a pair of pistols.
A woman who said she was sitting on the front steps of her building near the shooting when it took place said that she was further unnerved afterward when she saw a man, whom she presumed to be the gunman, walking slowly from the scene, making little effort to hide his identity.
“He looked very, very pleased,†she said. “He looked satisfied.â€
I heard the owners are selling and moving to Park Slope.
aren’t you frightened by all the murders and shootings in your immediate area, 8:04?