House of the Day: 146 6th Avenue
Here’s a big ole brownstone on the nicest stretch of 6th Avenue that just hit the market—for the first time since 1979! The five-story house at 146 6th Avenue in Park Slope has 4,700 square feet of space according to the listing (Property Shark says 5,100) but “needs tlc.” The only photo provided, of an…
Here’s a big ole brownstone on the nicest stretch of 6th Avenue that just hit the market—for the first time since 1979! The five-story house at 146 6th Avenue in Park Slope has 4,700 square feet of space according to the listing (Property Shark says 5,100) but “needs tlc.” The only photo provided, of an antique marble sink, suggests that it needs a lot of tlc, as does the fact that it hasn’t changed owners in almost three decades. Still, could be a killer pad. How do you think the asking price of $2,750,000 will fly?
146 6th Avenue [NY Times] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
Hey, I live (rent) 1/2 block from there!
I hope whoever buys the place fixes the broken slate sidewalk on the side (not sure if it is the property owner’s responsibility, to be honest, but it is a nuisance).
Location is very convenient. Neighborhood is pretty good (but it is not center slope).
That’s a pretty quiet corner. Most of 6th avenue is in that area. Most of the noise will come from locals (i.e., hanging out on the stoop, cleaning their cars and blasting their car stereos while doing so, double parking and honking). It is usually very quiet in bad weather and after 10:30.
I don’t know what to say about the price. Depends what you are going to do with it and how much investment it will take to get it in good shape.
Just do me a favor and fix the sidewalk if you buy it!
I certainly don’t mean to hood-bash by comparing PS and PH. Sure, PH has a way to go before having the amenities and safety of PS – but it’s getting there. Anyway, this argument is like beating a dead horse – the point is that this house is a wreck and the price is absurd. Prices are ridiculous now in general and due for a correction but this seems beyond the pale.
Plus, why are they even putting it on the market is they can’t really sell due to pending divorce? Smells rotten all over.
Per house: Yikes!
Per 1:44: Do you mean a semi-nude contortionist on the roof of each house? Or do you mean each of the brokers should buck down and do their selling thing wearing, perhaps, a fig leaf?
Ok now…this is not at all meant to be a neighborhood bash, but the folks trying to compare PH and PS are stretching just a tad.
Park Slope has been under the gentrification knife for about 40 years now. Prospect Heights…around 10-15. Yes, Prospect Heights has some lovely homes, has really come a LONG way in terms of crime, etc, but the ONLY reason that has happened so quickly is because it les directly across the street from Park Slope.
Please don’t tell me that if Park Slope were not there, that people would pay 2 million dollars for a home in Prospect Heights. That’s silly. People in PH have reaped the benefit of ridiculous price appreciation BECAUSE of its proximity to Park Slope.
In general though, Prospect Heights could still use a lof of work on its drug trade goings on, the schools, crime and general neighborhood beautification.
2:01, this is not a “great old house”. It is a wreck on the inside, no detail at all, chopped up into tiny rooms that have been trashed. There are no windows upstairs, hence the wood planks. The facade is missing ALL its lintels and ornaments. It doesn’t even have the garage that many of these corner houses have. It only makes sense for a developer who would gut it and make it spare, modern apartments (on a tight budget), but at this price and in this market, I don’t think that developer would net a good profit. And… there’s the tenants, all buddies of the owner. Good luck with that.
I’m glad to see some neighborhood bashing creeping into this thread.
But rehab at 1:44 makes the most salient point at the end of his post about how this should be marketed.
this will get snatched up quickly.
great old house.
1:37 here – I swear I am not connected to the Corcoran listing – in fact, I think *that* is overpriced (and let’s face it, Corcoran usually overprices). The reason I brought it up was in the context of comps – not that PS and PH are true comps, but given that this house is not in a greatest part of PS, and PH house is on OK block, it’s reasonable to compare them. So my point was just that the PH is asking far less, even though this PS house doesn’t seem to offer any advantage and in fact, could be even MORE of a nightmare. Don’t get me wrong – PH Corcoran listing seems like a nightmare too, not for faint of heart, and I think 1.4 is too much – but for Christ’s sakes, asking 2.5 for this huge piece of junk?
I wouldn’t be so sure that this sale can go through. It’s owned by a couple that has been separated, but unable to divorce for years because of it and other rental real estate. I wonder if one of them placed the for sale ad and not both.
The property is like most 5 stories in that it seems like a better deal than a 4 story, but isn’t. 5 stories are actually worse because they were all broken up into floor throughs with crazy extra plumbing, lost detail, and extra wear and tear of rentals.
This is not in any way like the park place house which has been empty for years and was a one family – possibly with an illegal rental at some point long, long ago. I don’t usually make this accusation, but I’d assume 1:37 is in some way connected to that house since they brought it up for no good reason.