House of the Day: 64 Lefferts Place
This four-story, three-family limestone at 64 Lefferts Place on the southern edge of Clinton Hill has some beautiful original detail (we’re particularly taken with the plaster moldings shown in the bedroom and, in this slideshow, in the stairwell). We’re less enthusiastic about how the new(ish) kitchens look, but each to his own. The asking price…
This four-story, three-family limestone at 64 Lefferts Place on the southern edge of Clinton Hill has some beautiful original detail (we’re particularly taken with the plaster moldings shown in the bedroom and, in this slideshow, in the stairwell). We’re less enthusiastic about how the new(ish) kitchens look, but each to his own. The asking price for the 4,200-square-foot house is a “negotiable” $1,750,000. (Taxes are less than $2,000 a year!) How much negotiation do you think the seller will actually have to do to get this deal done?
64 Lefferts Place [Marcia Clark] GMAP P*Shark
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There’s so much misinformation on this thread.
First, the property will probably sell, given recent comps, size and condition, for about $1.6mm. See recent comps:
59 Lefferts Pl – Sld 2/6/2008 – $1,500,000
65 Lefferts Pl – Sld 11/21/2007 – $1,500,000
23 Lefferts Pl – Sld 11/9/2007 – $1,415,000
63 Lefferts Pl – Sld 7/10/2006 – $1,400,000
All four homes needed substantial work. This house appears to be in excellent condition (though no one is doing any cartwheels over the kitchen and baths).
100 Lefferts Pl is presently on the market for $1.8mm. Another great house. I think both 64 and 100 Lefferts sell for more than $1.6mm with 100 Lefferts (five story gem) fetching the higher of the two.
Second, the property is located in Clinton Hill not PLG.
Third, the property is located in the federal designated – Clinton Hill South Historic District which qualifies it for the landmark preservation tax credit (10% of property value – see Trust for Architectural Easement).
Fourth, this section of Clinton Hill is included in the newly proposed expansion of the Clinton Hill Historic District.
Those are plastic mouldings, not plaster.
Those are plastic mouldings, not plaster.
I’m always confused by your comments Mr. B. Exactly where are the plaster mouldings you mention, cause they sure aren’t apparent from the listing photos. All I see is some faux picture trim and crown….
Excuse me, but I must point out that the discussions about CH (or any other neighborhood where there are many black residents) on Brownstoner often smell of racism.
Words like “fringe” (fringe of what, can I ask?…what, is it the fringe of civilization, the outer, utmost, little edge of the frontier where a civilized person could even dream of living?) and “dicey”…
I’m very sorry there are many participants on this blog who walk around with such a level of privilege they have no idea about institutional racism and their own benefits from it. Their entrenchment in privilege certainly comes out in they way they write.
The topics on the CH houses the last week as well as a couple of other threads were disgusting in their fascination with supposed incidents of black people attacking white people. Frankly, most social mechanisms work out in the reverse in this society.
Very tiresome there appear to be a bunch of posters here who seem to fit that model of distasteful “gentrifiers”. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, the amount of disrespect one sees by the young kids moving into parts of Brooklyn toward black residences passing on the sidewalk depresses me.
I guess it’s to be expected in a very unfair economy that also promotes so much selfishness and self-involvement.
It is heartening, though, that the UWS’der guy was able to state his situation. There are many decent people who are checking out Brownstoner to see what’s going on around the boro. I wish they would post comments and call out posters who give the impression the blog caters to mostly annoying, selfish gentrifiers. At least the era (just last year) of “my kitchen counter’s cooler than yours” appears to be over!
FGG
Still trying to sleep with bxgrl, Biff?
I think FGG is a racist troll trying to elicit a race discussion where there was none.
FGG = bigot.
Nobody said they were afraid of black people. People said there is crime happening here on the street just like on the one where the other HOTD was. Not black people. Criminals.