House of the Day: 72 Hicks Street
Recently reduced to $3,750,000 from a starting price of $4,995,000 earlier this year (with a couple of intermediate stops along the way), this gorgeous woodframe house at 72 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights must be coming into range for some well-heeled buyer. After all, this is one of the oldest houses in the Heights, dating…
Recently reduced to $3,750,000 from a starting price of $4,995,000 earlier this year (with a couple of intermediate stops along the way), this gorgeous woodframe house at 72 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights must be coming into range for some well-heeled buyer. After all, this is one of the oldest houses in the Heights, dating back to the 1820s, and it’s a 25-footer. On top of that, it looks extremely well-preserved. By comparison, Brown Harris still has this house at 19 Garden Place listed at $3,995,000. Which do you think is a better deal?
72 Hicks Street [Kevin Carberry] GMAP P*Shark
Darn. I thought you were doing your Liza Doolittle impersonation.
BRG: What do you mean whatever happened to derwood?
I don’t get it.
Spell check…that’s supposed to be ‘Heavens forbid’
it did look like it might be a playground albeit one that’s in poor shape. I didn’t see the church, only the building to the right.
I hope you’re joking, DIBS. That’s Plymouth Church and its playground.
“Not everybody can live with periord details”
I’m trying to wrap my brain around this on a site named “Brownstoner”.
-Sam
Sam, let’s not get into aesthetics.
(by the way what ever happened to derwood??)
You lopped off the end of my phrase, where I said ‘or details of certain eras’.
There are clearly defined periods of architecture. I’m not going to sit here and rattle off every single style. This house is definitely of a certain style. You either love it, indifferent to it (because you don’t know the disparity), or you hate it.
Evens forbid, we acknowledge the fact that there are brownstones without details. I said it people. To some ears, that’s probably, the lewdest comment I’ve made.
If you look at the Streetview, this house is across the street from some vacant lot and a not-so-nice looking apartment building. $900k off for that shit.
I can see a small screen in the bathroom to listen to CNBC in the morning while I’m shaving. The one in the bedroom is really too far away. I would take up Biff’s idea though and read a romantic Victorian novel while in the soaking tub though.
Well, seeing as how I’ve had my own QOTD moment recently (like how I worked that one in?), I can undestand, it’s sort of like what it must feel like to be Sarah Palin…the limelight is hard to give up!