House of the Day: 567 1st Street
You don’t see the phrase “quadruple parlor floor” tossed around too often, but it made the grade in this listing for 567 1st Street in Park Slope. The same rear addition that makes such a phrase possible is also responsible for pushing the square-footage tally on this four-story brownstone of the 5,000 mark (it’s 5,352…
You don’t see the phrase “quadruple parlor floor” tossed around too often, but it made the grade in this listing for 567 1st Street in Park Slope. The same rear addition that makes such a phrase possible is also responsible for pushing the square-footage tally on this four-story brownstone of the 5,000 mark (it’s 5,352 square feet to be exact). It makes the claim of “extra-wide” which technically may be right (Property Shark says 21 feet) but is stretching it a bit. Anyway, beautiful house, stone’s throw from the park—what’s not to like! The asking price is $2,989,000. Buyer-friendly or oh-so-2007?
567 1st Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
HOBOKENROCKS is going to pick this up for $600k in three months.
‘since the school, which I think is one of the very nicest in Brooklyn, if not the whole city, is just down the block.’
I wouldn’t go as far as saying that’s the nicest house in the whole city. Have you been to Manhattan? It’s over the bridge.
I think by $4/5m, SJ means $800k.
The playground at poly prep is in the back of the building (mansion?)that it is housed in. My kids went there when they were little. I was thinking that this would be a great location for a family with children since the school, which I think is one of the very nicest in Brooklyn, if not the whole city, is just down the block.
This crowd is pretty tough on properties in Park Slope or Brooklyn Heights.
Senator Schumer lives aroud the corner. This is a nice block. I think the price is reasonable.
I love the woodwork although that white paint isn’t working against it.
Not sure I’d want to add windows unless I owned that side lot.
I often hear Bloomberg’s house referred to as a mansion, and it is an attached house.
I do not agree that mansion means free-standing only. If it does, we should change our opinion of that as this country hopefully becomes a little less decadent.
SJ…then you should buy it at the current ask of $2.9MM and then flip it for $4/5 MM!!!
I would consider the ex-connelly house a mansion or the ethical culture society for sure, but not a brownstone that does not differentiate itself from its attached neighbors in the same way as some of what I am going to call mansions on Garfield and Montgomery.
The house looks relatively nice (I’m going to assume that the pictures don’t do the wood justice) and I am not particularly impressed by the parlor floor… The truth is that most of the parlor floors in the brownstones in the neighborhood (at least on this block of 1st street) are/were comparable before somebody moved in and renovated the charm and history out of it.
One caveat: It’s right across the street from the poly prep lower school, so there’s a lot of kid activity and noise from the playground.
Nonetheless, even in this economic climate, the house is cheap. I wouldn’t sell it for less than 4/5m.
I must be the only one but I like the light colored wood work. It doesn’t appear to be stained at all. If they had all that woodwork stained dark, it would be really overbearing.