House of the Day: 141 Lincoln Place
Located across the street from the bordello-turned-condo, 141 Lincoln Place is a Greek Revival Neo Grec brownstone that just hit the market with a price tag of $2,595,000. The recently renovated two-family house has the added bonus of sitting on an extra deep lot. (We wish they’d included a photo of the garden!) Anyway, the…
Located across the street from the bordello-turned-condo, 141 Lincoln Place is a Greek Revival Neo Grec brownstone that just hit the market with a price tag of $2,595,000. The recently renovated two-family house has the added bonus of sitting on an extra deep lot. (We wish they’d included a photo of the garden!) Anyway, the asking price is definitely less than it would have been six months or a year ago, but whether it’s low enough to move remains to be seen. What do you think?
141 Lincoln Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
OK, I don’t want to turn this thread into one about schools, and I’m not saying that PS282 or District 13 (school/district this house is in) are bad – just that, after doing lots of research on the suject, it seems less desirable to many parents than District 15 (which starts south of Union Street). Overall, I think the main critique of 282 is that it is a more traditional, strict/rigid school, but don’t take it from me – there’s a lot of research out there on this, starting with Inside schools.org. Given that some buyers may not care about school, I think the bigger issue with this house really is price, since other grand houses of this type have recently been slashing prices, which would make me re-evaluate the “value” of this one, or others currently on the market at high prices.
How come the hot houses have the hot Jessica B. brokering them? That must be a high-school pic anyway.
Yes, Promenade, that was mentioned in the very first comment here…
um, there is a photo of the extra deep garden…
It also seems as though that because this thread has gone to mostly talking about schools, that the house itself is rather great in that there’s not much to talk about, other than it’s really quite a beauty…
Nothing is wrong with it, bktycoon. There are just a lot of PS. 321 snobs on here. I’ve heard that it’s an excellent school.
In fact, that school is my voting location, and I happened to chat with a woman in line that day who said she sends her two kids there and loves it.
Miss Muffet –
I’d love to own a townhouse even though there are no kids in my future, but I’d probably rent at least one floor of it, I have to admit. My fiancee and I just don’t need 3 to 4 floors worth of space, even though we both work from home at least part of the time.
So basically yeh, I’d say the prime candidates to buy a house like this probably have kids or anticipating having kids. Then again, if you can drop 2.5mm on a house in this economy, private school may not be a concern. 🙂
since i am without kids, can someone tell me whats wrong with the school over on Berkley and 6th ave? it surely cant be that bad…
Not sure, Ms. Muffet…
I live a block from here, and if I think about my immediate neighbors across from me and up and down the block on my side (who live in full brownstones not divided into co-ops or rentals) there is a couple with a newborn infant and the rest are all couples without kids.
There are very few kids on my block in fact.
In any event, the school district 15 is FAR from bad. I understand it is quite good, in fact. This will probably appeal to a family, but I don’t think it necessarily goes to one.
Of the couple houses that sold on my block in the past year, they seemed to be to empty nest types…