House of the Day: 169 Clinton Street
This five-story brick townhouse at 169 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights is a real beauty. The living areas have retained their historic charm and the modernized kitchen and bathrooms appear to fit in tastefully with the original vibe of the house. The 25-foot-wide house, which also comes with two parking spaces in the rear, looks…
This five-story brick townhouse at 169 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights is a real beauty. The living areas have retained their historic charm and the modernized kitchen and bathrooms appear to fit in tastefully with the original vibe of the house. The 25-foot-wide house, which also comes with two parking spaces in the rear, looks like a very attractive deal to us at $3,200,000. At the very least, it puts Tuesday’s House of the Day to shame. Even in this market, we think this will move. Do you?
169 Clinton Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Zinka, although Burn After Reading takes place in Georgetown, the crew spent weeks last year filming in BH. If you see the movie, you should recognize scenes shot on Hicks (by Love Lane) and Middagh Street.
If there’s anything that consumer reports would be extremely relevant to, appliances is it. buying an inferior product at a premium price doesnt seem to be the best plan.
PS Its time to give up on all those luxury brands. they were secondary beneficiaries of the boom now busted.
PPS There was a roper range for sale yesterday on the forum that i thought was amazing.
Sorry, but I agree that if you’re marketing a home as high end, you have to put in the brand names. It has no basis in rational reality, but that’s the way the game is played.
I recall our first apartment hunt 10 years ago and finding a dumpy place with a Viking/SubZero kitchen. We were pretty impressed.
In all seriousness, I think that if you have the money, why not drop 10k on the fancy stuff? At the most it will impress some easily impressed people and at the worst it won’t lead to snarky comments on Brownstoner.
It is completely irrational to care what appliances there are in a $4M house. You can replace appliances more easily than anything else that might be wrong in a house. A $4M is just a $3,775,000 house with fancy appliances. Anyone who is swayed by a washing machine when they are spending $4 million dollars probably should get professional help before making any large financial decisions.
If you are selling a house that commands that kind of price tag you should certainly upgrade to the highest end status brands prior to selling. You can’t cheap out on those sorts of things and expect to get a 3M or 4M asking price.
I cook daily, I’m going to run my appliances ragged for the next however many years before I sell So I bought what I wanted to USE (GE) while I live here, not what I’ll end up selling the house with.
When I bought my house in Bed Stuy it came with Bosch appliances, including the W/D. I don’t know wheteher its more appropriate to post that here or on the Bed Stuy thread for today. It was already gentrified before I came along and moved in!!!
I do put up Christmas decorations on the front door as well. Sorry for the numerous cross thread anecdotes!!!
I have brand new GE signature appliances and they look great and are super efficient. My place would have cost 100k more if they went with Bosch, Sub-Zero, etc.
It’s a status symbol, I think it’s crazy esp. in Manhattan when the people I know either eat out or get delivery most nights of the week.
That said I drive a beemer so people in glass houses shouldn’t….
ugh i can’t imagine anything more boring than thinking or writing about kitchen appliances. these threads have really gone downhill since the good ole days of anonymous commenting.
BH, you (and I) will never convince the status junkies. But I’m glad to see some agreement on this.