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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I see ductwork soffits in the kitchen photos…Central A/C??!!! Looking forward to see how they did the registers in the parlour room.
On the formal DR issue…I wanted my back room to be informal kitchen/TV room and still wanted a formal dining “area”. The living room is about as long as this one…29′ and leaves more than enough room for a formal seating area in front at the fireplace and room for a formal round dining table to be placed closer to the kitchen…expandable with leaves for 6-8 people. These rooms are huge.
If I had an 11.5 x 45′ master bedroom floor, I think I’d find a way to use it just fine — bed in the middle, a study/library area on one end, maybe a treadmill on the other. Or, you can put up a wall and divide it. Doesn’t seem like a huge problem.
are people sure they’re in CH when referring to all the great restaurants and amenities, or FG? i’ve looked for places in CH, so have no hate towards it, but it’s far from a great neighborhood full ‘o amenities/restaurants/etc.
as for the G train, for what its worth: http://www.hopstop.com/?action=rate
Realtor-speak: How is that 21′? It’s no wider than 18-19 if you add up the floorplan dimensions.
The deck is “large?”
And unless you’re planning a bowling party, how do you use a 11.5 x 45′ bedroom? For that price, better to have another bedroom.
Wasder, you are insane. Do you ever take the train on the weekend or at night?
Plan on it taking an hour, plus. The G train is a nightmare.
Just because the F train also stinks doesn’t make your lousy train any better.
I think that “basement apartment” became “garden apartment” when the average rent started to go up past $500 a month. A basement and a garden level is the same thing in most brownstones. It is the level one enters from under the stoop. The basement. Below that, is the cellar. Many old houses have cellars with dirt floors or with a thin slab of concrete poured over the dirt. This level is not habitable except by some developers who dig out a pit in the back yard and market it as a sort of rec room/mausoleum floor. Traditionally, the first floor was the floor entered from atop the stoop, lately as rents are getting even more ridiculous, I detect a trend to call the basement the “first floor” and the cellar “the basement”. It’s real estate, enjoy!
All this knocking on the G train is a bit silly. I take it every day and my commute from Clinton and Lafayette to Chelsea takes 30 mins very consistently. Compares very favorably with the commutes of the people I know in Cobble Hill or Carroll Gardens. The G gets an undeserved bad rap.
i think the house is beautiful. definetly don’t like the fact that there is no formal dining room and really only 2 bedrooms. but i guess that’s an easy fix.
That is a good point slick. I don’t know what it was like in 2000 but it is a really lovely place to dine in, walk in and jog around now.
Such a reduction would also mean, from what I understand, prices at least halving. I can’t see that happening in CH without it happening elsewhere also which I guess it could …but we wont have any banking system left if it does.