House of the Day: 219 Washington Avenue
The owner of 219 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill has been trying to sell for over a year now, tweaking the price a number of times in the process to no avail. It started at $2,275,000 at the beginning of May 2007, getting bumped to $2,375,000 and then $2,395,000 within the first week; by the…
The owner of 219 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill has been trying to sell for over a year now, tweaking the price a number of times in the process to no avail. It started at $2,275,000 at the beginning of May 2007, getting bumped to $2,375,000 and then $2,395,000 within the first week; by the end of the month, the listing had been pulled, according to StreetEasy. It reemerged with Corcoran again in February at a pie-in-the-sky $2,835,000 in February of this year, before getting knocked back down to $2,495,000 in March. Later in the spring, it was pulled again. Brown Harris Stevens brought it back to market last week at $2,495,000. Seems to us that you gotta have a fifth story to get this price on Washington Avenue in this market, but we could be wrong.
219 Washington Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
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Call me Gary.
Hey don’t get me wrong, I love the subways, I think everyone should use them -it leaves more room for me and the BMW above ground, y’know?
zoom zoom zoom…..
Thank you – Gary Cooper. You said it! and yes the G does not go to Manhattan. I am not in the price range for this house but I only take the subway, one way to work. Walk, cab or get a ride home. Weekends never on the subway. I so do not think the G is a factor for this buyer.
I only take the subways rarely and never in summer and certainly never on weekends, what do the subways have to do with properties like these?
Is it true that the G train does not go into Manhattan? What’s the point?
Not to start a subway war, but every other train except the G actually goes to Manhattan.
It is definitely a good reason not to move to a nabe — and I love Clinton Hill.
wow, only my third registered post and already censored. i guess i wasn’t shilling for the property hard enough. :^(
BS/CH–thanks. There seems to be some kind of “bash the G train” memo going around here on the interwebs. I find it to be user friendly and quite convenient given how much I go to visit friends in either Williamsburg or Cobble.
Word up Wasder! The G train is not some sort of MTA leper train! In fact, I have waited for the L many nights much longer than my transfer for the G (and in the morning, at least you can get on a train and not wait for 2 trains just to get a space)! It’s not the best train but there’s no reason to move out of CH because of it!
Goldie—yes you are correct that most of the restaurants people cite as amenities are in Fort Greene but it is not as if there is some magic line of demarcation between the neighborhoods. The restaurants on DeKalb are a 5 minute walk from this house on Washington. The point being FG and CH are conjoined neighborhoods that function essentially as one.
Ontheparkway–of course I take the G train on weekends. Its the primary train that I take from my neighborhood regardless of the day of the week. When they are doing weekend track work your assessment is accurate but that doesn’t happen all that often. At which point the G train is much like every other train in the system. I am not trying to claim that it is a superior train line but to hear most people on this blog talk about it you would think that the G train is useless and that is certainly not the case.