House of the Day: 22 Remsen Street
[nggallery id=”25390″ template=galleryview] Let’s hope there are still some rich people out there! It’s not everyday a $7,300,000 listing hits the market so naturally this place at 22 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights caught our eye. The 25-foot-wide brownstone has clearly had a major makeover since its current owner purchased the 13-room mansion for $2,792,000…
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Let’s hope there are still some rich people out there! It’s not everyday a $7,300,000 listing hits the market so naturally this place at 22 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights caught our eye. The 25-foot-wide brownstone has clearly had a major makeover since its current owner purchased the 13-room mansion for $2,792,000 in 2003. Surprisingly for its price range, the five-story house is actually a three-family, raising the question of whether someone with this kind of dough wants to be a landlord to two different tenants. Regardless, this will be a nice test of the high-end waters right now. Thoughts?
22 Remsen Street [Sotheby’s] GMAP P*Shark
It’s that clean modern chic look. Very modern denoting taste the sort epitomized by the “Bull” painting. Yes, very Lehman or Bear Stearns. Notice the empty Nebuchadnezzar champagne bottle next to the fireplace? What says “I’m rich” more than that?
Whatch the desperate price cutting on this one!!!
As they say, beautiful “bones” but the decorating is horrible! Considering that this is high-end real estate porn, I’m surprised at how uninviting the interiors are.
This block of Remsen St. is a good as it gets in Brooklyn, but the house itself looks kind of dull.
this price is laughable. good luck getting 5.5
Bullnose…I’m shattered.
Then that just leaves the built-in refrigerator.
On the plus side, the current owner will take all their furniture and art work with them. Too bad they can’t that cut out in the wall on top of the blue sofa with them.
high end renovations like these arent done by the people who live in them. they are done by interior designers who coincidentally get a lot of their business from hotels….
That garden floor apartment is nicer than our co-op…and I’ll bet you could probably…wait for it…TAKE DOWN the bull painting…
Anyway, it does seem like it’s 1.5-2 mil over what I would consider a reasonable price. Think I’d keep the garden apartment for visitors/maid but I’d want the rest of the house for myself…of course this is all idle speculation.
I’m with you Susan,
How is it that so many of these “high-end renovations” manage to make a house look cold and uninviting.
brg – that is not an eased edge, it is a bullnose.