House of the Day: 24 Clifton Place
There’s a lot to recommend this three-family brownstone at 24 Clifton Place in Clinton Hill—beautiful old floors and moldings, a new kitchen—but, 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 Hill—beautiful old floors and moldings, a new kitchen—but, 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’ve seen a lot of these homes where the garden level brick is exposed but from the parlor floor and above it’s plastered over. What I do find strange and off-putting is the exposed chimney brick with plaster remaining either side. Weird just weird.
not 2:34, but clearly would be one or the other 🙂
2:34: what would have been a traditional wall covering for a house of this era? wallpaper? paint? Interested to know. Thanks.
2.15 – spot on with the comments regarding when brick is worth exposing – and when it isn’t
i’m a designer and i generally like exposed brick, but i agree in this type of home it’s not true-to-form. luckily it is easy to cover up with a layer of sheetrock.
It’ll go like a flapjack. Very desireable listing (condition + location). Over ask.
I personally don’t like exposed brick in these residences – but there is no point complaining about it (any more than recessed lighting) as you can easily put sheetrock over it (you can assume the plaster was in lousy shape and not terribly worth salvaging, else they’d probably not have bothered to rip it out.)
That said, I recognize that many DO like it. When I was doing some fix-ups before selling my place, I was going to cover over the brick in my kitchen, but only didn’t because a younger, more fashion-conscious friend told me no way – and I figure she was much closer to the buyers in both taste and the income-level needed to buy it.
I don’t believe it! In all their puffery, Corcoran didn’t even mention it’s a mere three blocks from ze Flea!
Didn’t the house at the end of the block Corcoran had not sell for 1.9M after months? The one on the corner of Grand? This house is the same one that has been on MLS forever as well.