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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With regard to the roving packs of disadvantaged youth, foot traffic from la policia has increased 100 percent lately in my neck of CH. I’m a few blocks from Pratt, and it’s a non-stop parade of rookies, day in and day out. Saw a guy get a ticket for riding his bike on the sidewalk the other day, so they’re making it pay somehow.
For that kind of bank, I’d prefer Clinton Ave, frankly.
“roving gangs of children.”??
You make it sound like a scene from Children Of The Corn.
Would be nice if I could spend 2.4 MILLION but I can’t. Evin if I could I would want more for my buck. It is 2 blocks from the G train or 8 from the C but if I could afford 2.4 I don’t think I would be ridin the rails. It is a nice ‘hood. And it’s Washington Avenue not Street as sam called it. Washington Street is in Dumbo. All the luck to them.
@daveinbedstuy
Thanks. Odd that it wouldn’t be in the floorplan. You’d think that would be a bonus for the owner or renter.
Officially (as in, when filing with the DOB, etc). A basement is anything below grade, so a garden 1 or 2 steps down is actually a basement. but no one would call it that in selling a house so they call it the garden floor/ garden apartment. Below that is the cellar. Code regulations about what constitute legal living space (bedrooms, etc) include needing sufficient light and air. You can turn any basement into liveable space with a 5′ light well in front of it, which is much less than typical garden floors have.
uh, it’s the roving gangs of children that have always been the problem.
Looks nice especially the poured concrete–I sure wish I had done the same with my kitchen reno. Still, that’s a lot of cash for that location with convenient access only to the G. I’ll bet they wish they had sold in 2007. I wonder what happened. Did they get enough offers over asking that they kept bumping up? Or do they just need to lay off the crack pipe?
the bottom is neighborhoods like CH is hard to guess. It’s easy to say it will revert to 2000, but the neighborhood has improved drastically since then (roving gangs of children aside).
The price of houses in the neighborhood should reflect the fact that there are lots of restaurants, etc, that werent there in 2000.
2:16…did they do a curb cut in the front of the house? The listing doesn’t say anything about it and I believe that car parked to the left is on another property….which is an eyesore as well to have that car there and the place on the right.