House of the Day: 448 6th Street
We’re in love with the bayfront brownstone at 448 6th Street that just hit the market. It feels historically authentic but not precious, and it’s a little different from your standard-issue brownstone. The asking price is $2,825,000. Given the current meltdown and the fact that the house is only 17 feet wide, that’s going to…
We’re in love with the bayfront brownstone at 448 6th Street that just hit the market. It feels historically authentic but not precious, and it’s a little different from your standard-issue brownstone. The asking price is $2,825,000. Given the current meltdown and the fact that the house is only 17 feet wide, that’s going to be tough, but, man, whoever ends up here is a lucky duck.
448 6th Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Call me a princess, but that kitchen needs to be completely redone. It’s not worthy of a $500,000 apartment, never mind a $2,825,000 house.
This is a super-charming house. The front bays are magnificent. I love the layout as well, with the kitchen where it should be, on the garden level. The one alteration I would make would be to create a window wall, with French doors perhaps, opening up to the back yard from the kitchen. I really like this house and though I think the price is very high, and unaffordable, it isn’t absurd given its beauty and location. I would prefer a 17-foot-wide house with detail and good layout than a 20-footer with a bad layout and “standard-issue features. But who can afford this right now? Moreover who has the courage to spend this kind of mega-money right now?
And P.S…anyone who does not think this house is “move in ready” is a princess of the highest order.
There might be a thing or two to change, but it is most CERTAINLY move in ready, Queen Nokilissa.
I love the kitchen, and wouldn’t change a thing about it. So yes, we do have very different styles, apparently.
I don’t really care about our “tiffs” because it seems that nothing in the world could possibly make you happy. You literally complain about each and every house that comes on here. I personally think THAT is a lot more “odd” than the price.
I have no idea what the selling price will be, but I think this is exactly the type of house that most people looking for a 1 family in Park Slope are looking for.
You clearly do not fall into that “most” category, so let’s just drop it.
although the kitchen is weird, I think the house is gorgeous. love the layout, even. Hope it goes for ask (as should every homeowner in PS!)
Cons: hate the laundry in the basement, and I’d want a bathroom/butler’s pantry on the parlor floor.
I’m wondering what that shower looks like in the middle of the bathroom on the fourth floor!!!!
lovely, and definitely calls for the hiring of a small staff with uniforms, strong calves (for carrying dinner service upstairs, naturally), traditional senses of comportment and saucy notes of delightful irreverence. can’t you just see the sunlight dappling on the maids busy with their feather dusters and hepa-filter vacuum cleaners as the children giggle through their lessons with the governess and the cook kneads the bread, all whilst in preparation for the lord and lady’s return from a fortnight in the country?
with the center stair and the removal of the dividing wall on the parlor floor, the only room where i can see the 17′ really mattering is that ground-floor den. and this place has enough other spaces that it shouldn’t be an issue. it’s a move-in ready single-family house near the park, and will sell quickly, most likely around 2.5. discount for the fact that it’s not in ps 321, even though buyers most likely would be private-school-bound or perhaps already comfortably esconsed in 321.
Nokilissa, you’re likely correct on the fireplaces being closed. I would have to think they would be mentioned in the listing if they were functional. It’s also a big druther for me too (I absolutely love having working fireplaces in my home).
I think overall the home is very nice, albeit on the narrow side. I’m not too crazy about the kitchen and dining rooms being on separate floors, but it’s not completely unusual from the brownstones I’ve seen.
11217, I guess you and I have distinctly different ideas as to what constitutes “move in ready” for almost 3 million dollars.
That kitchen, even if we’re looking at nothing else, is not even close to acceptable at this price point. I think you’ve got about 2 sq. feet of laminate counterspace, tops.
Have we had this little tiff before?