House of the Day: 19 Garden Place
There’s not a bad thing to say about the charming Tudor house at 19 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights. All the original detail is just as it should be, and the updated kitchen looks well done (except for our pet peeve—granite counters!) The biggest challenge to achieving the asking price of $3,995,000 will likely be…
There’s not a bad thing to say about the charming Tudor house at 19 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights. All the original detail is just as it should be, and the updated kitchen looks well done (except for our pet peeve—granite counters!) The biggest challenge to achieving the asking price of $3,995,000 will likely be the somewhat diminutive size. While the listing doesn’t give a number, it can’t be much more than 2,000 square feet. Still, it’s on one of the quietest and most quaint blocks in The Heights and the architecture is a rarity, so anything’s possible.
19 Garden Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I heard that they got asking on the Ditmas Tudor.
fatlenny – i think poured concrete looks amazing and i plan on doing it in my reno – will look into pietra cardoza, i’m not familiar with that material. Thanks.
Agree with Stoner, as usual, that granite sucks. I don’t know why Stoner doesn’t like it, but I think just about every shade is hideous. I went with Pietra Cardoza, which looks great but a pain to maintain. I love poured concrete but it seemed like a pain to install.
I think in this market, 3.5 is the most this house is gonna get. If it were PERFECTION for this price, it might move, but it sounds like it needs some substantial work…especially for the kind of buyer who would be looking at this place in the first place.
How could anyone possibly have a general dislike of granite counters? You can get hundreds of different colors/shades/patterns of granite; likewise marble, corian, tile, or whatever. If it’s done right and it works, it’s great; if it’s done poorly, it’s bad. E.g. the granite counters in my kitchen are beautiful. The marble in my bathroom is horrid. How can you have a thing against a whole category?
Brownstoner is weird sometimes.
Anyway, the comments are correct, this place is all about the block, not the house. Garden Place is one of the quietest, safest, richest, leafiest, family-friendly-est, quaintest blocks in the entire city. Plus, since the former owners of all the houses on the block were rich people who moved there for the same reason, you can be sure that any house there is in good shape. Maybe not to everyone’s liking, as evidenced in the comments, but certainly well-maintained.
All that said, five years ago people would have said about this place “dude, it’s on Garden Place, of course it’s worth the $2 million asking price.” People are starting to realize that, except for some discrete infusions of money into the city in that time, wages at all levels of the spectrum are basically the same. $4 million may not have *sounded* ridiculous last year… but it didn’t sell. And this year it’s starting to seem ridiculous again – starting to seem like it may have been ridiculous all along. There are stilll crazy rich people with cash to burn, but they’re not quite as crazy as they were. I bet this goes for $3.5M, maybe a little lower.
Pawtucket is indeed a magical place… very funny, Biff.
But it ain’t the Heights. This house needs updating, but it is on one of the best blocks in NYC. I’ve never been inside, but have walked by it for 20 years. Could it really be that bad?
Prison yard garden? That can be fixed. Tear out the carpet, and get rid of the cock-fighting ring in the basement. Keep the orange dining room, nice patina. It’s still overpriced by at least a half-mil, but I’m surprised that someone hasn’t bought it by now.
“It’s the block stupid.”
Does this block rate around $2000/sf?
Didn’t think so.
You should read some of the comments about this house the last time it was featured:
“Brooklyn Heights house will sell for way above asking. The rest will go for under asking but will sell quickly.”
“4.4mm for 1,736sf house that looks like it belongs in a undesirable part of Queens? Thanks for the holiday laugh!”
“The taxes on that mini-tiny-Tudor in Brooklyn Heights are over $10K. So, you pay through the nose to buy it, and you keep paying through your nose to own it.”
“Garden Place has been on the market for months – 23 weeks according to Natefind. Beautiful house but no one’s biting at that price.”
Noki, even if you don’t move there, you should take your kids on this street on Halloween. Almost all the homes go crazy with decorations, they close off the street and it’s a giant party. Then you can go to all the other brownstones in the area. The wine lover post reminded me that I saw Paul Giammati (sp?) with his kids trick or treating here last year. When I go down this street, you can sense a neighborly spirit that is so much stronger than on other streets nearby.
And Ditmas Park ain’t Pawtucket!