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
It’s a very cute house that really isn’t doing it for me on the inside. The pricetag doesn’t help, either.
Did anyone else notice that there’s no bathroom on the first floor? For $4mil, I want the option to flush on any floor I choose.
Is Pawtucket really a place? Love it.
This is, indeed, the kind of street you can only find in a Currier and Ives print. It is that gorgeous.
And Ditmas Park ain’t Brooklyn Heights.
Sigh. Double sigh, Sam.
We DID find our perfect house earlier this year, but lost out to a blind bidding war thing. I’m afraid that house is now some kind of template for me. The iconic brownstone. Impossible to reproduce. We’ll see.
And home is NYC. Can’t move to SF or DC, no matter the loveliness of the houses.
Shucks Nokilissa, I wish you would have liked it. I’m still holding out hope that your family will move into my ‘hood!
“The tudor that you featured last week in your ‘open house picks’ on Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park was much nicer than this house and location aside, you didn’t rant and rave over it.”
In that case, there’s a gorgeous place in Pawtucket that is much roomier than this with a much nicer garden, location aside. This is arguably the nicest block in Brooklyn Heights and one of the nicest in the entire borough. Not saying the house is worth the price, but this street is awesome.
Nokilissa,
I think you have to look for houses in cities known for their good housing such as DC or San Fran.
Most housing in NYC sucks and it still costs a fortune. That’s just the way it is.
I don’t think you will ever find anything you like here.
Thank you ABCDZ!! I knew this place had been featured before and that it looked familiar. I was going to do a search, but then got busy at work!
It was as lukewarm to me last year as it is now.
Okay, so this is getting embarrassing.
We saw this house too. Loved the block and loved the curb appeal.
The love ended after walking in.
It was extremely narrow and dark. The dining area felt like something out of the seventies. I think it was the cabinetry. And again, just no real feeling of space or light. The kitchen was awful. And no, Brownstoner, not because of the granite (again, I don’t get your problem with granite. Its silly), but because of the shape it was in. Some of the cabinetry was askew, there was a big crack in something, and it was small. Would probably have to be a gut. The garden had that prison yard feel. All stone and cement, down a half floor, and no real sunlight.
The lower floor was just plain odd. Wall to wall carpet, a big pit kinda thing for… I don’t know… playing? lounging? And finally, upstairs was a strange warren of rooms. Bathrooms were in need of guts, lot’s of wall to wall carpeting (stained), and one of the rooms was at the end of a long hallway.
It just can’t ask for what its asking for. To end a sentence with a preposition.
Yes, this house has been on the market for what seems like forever. It started out well over $4 million. It was also an Open House Pick last year:
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/12/open_house_pick_156.php
Chosen – any idea how much for?