House of the Day: 1232 Dean Street
This four-story house at 1232 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market and, like so many houses in the area, has some killer architectural details. (In this case, it’s the wood paneling and built-ins that really impress.) Hopefully for the seller, this place will attract more interest than the next-door neighbor at 1230…
This four-story house at 1232 Dean Street in Crown Heights just hit the market and, like so many houses in the area, has some killer architectural details. (In this case, it’s the wood paneling and built-ins that really impress.) Hopefully for the seller, this place will attract more interest than the next-door neighbor at 1230 Dean Street, which we featured a year ago and is still on the market for $1,250,000. While we suspect there will be plenty of people who dig the house, we suspect that the price tag of $999,000 for a house in this neighborhood may be a tough sell in this economic environment.
1232 Dean Street [Halstead] GMAP P*Shark
Montrose Morris you are a pompous black Asshat! I would like to see how many of your new found friends have your back in the months ahead. Gentrification is Neo Colonialism!
The same people you cozy up with want to see every black person erased from your neighborhood but you are so full of your self, you can’t see it! Let”s see if the Asshats are going to float your “Comps” and keep your dream alive.
“What, you bitch that you are treated like a second class citizen in your own neighborhood, (Fulton St. thread), you take delight in people getting mugged in Clinton Hill (mugging thread), and now you tell people not to move to Crown Heights because the boyz in the hood are cleaning their weapons.”
Look Dumbass walk to Dean and Nostrand and stand out stupid! Notice that those dudes are not the Starbucks crowd!
” You are as obsolete as a “brother” in a pimp suit, with matching hat and shoes, in a pink caddy, rolling down Fulton Street. A whole lotta flash, but no substance.”
Pink Gators to match the pink suit baby and I would put your skank ass on the track…
The What (A Pimp Called The What)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Susan Elkins:
I suspected “family tenants”! The place definitely has the feeling of the “grands” Victorian twins, although this is more Edwardian, right Montrose?
If I were to buy this place, I’d probably leave the kitchens and bathrooms where they are. They make the place quirky — and functional. (So much better to have a satellite kitchen handy rather than have to run down to the main one at “garden” level all the time.)
Too bad about the curb cut, though. Yes, I understand the convenience, but a bit of landscape would more fit the block. (I don’t imagine the LPC would permit a new curb cut now.)
Something I’ve noticed since Brownstoner asked people to register: the remarks about Crown Heights are generally positive and/or constructive.
MM, Bay Ridge Girl, Amzi and others are definitely making space for my old neighborhood in Brownstone Brooklyn, even if it’s cyber-space. No doubt there’ll be real space benefits, if these haven’t already occurred.
Nice.
NOP
Oh, I love to paint!
MM – we’ll do whatever it takes to ‘fit in’.
Yes, Now is probably the best time to buy (unfortunately, not a time to sell), that’s why we’re going to resume our search.
We’re self-employed in a profession that is heavily dependant on a very healthy economy, that’s why we hesitate.
Mopar – hubby and I know all about renovation costs 😉
Only a select few will be invited to the house warming. And expect to help sand woodwork.
I was in this house too. ( I think I saw every house that was for sale in CH and BS.) At the time they were only showing the garden and parlor. The parlor certainly is beautiful. The Library room pictured is the center room in the parlor level. There were family tenants in the upstairs floors and I imagine you will need new mechanicals. The owners were quite nice. I believe that the price of the house that’s for sale next door is flexible, and the house is in prime shape. I didn’t see i t, but I’ve met the owner and know the kind of work he puts into his properties. Worth a look. Both houses have curb cuts. The house next door even has a garage.
Montrose–where would we be without you? Thanks for your wit and wisdom and great attitude about urban life. You are a Brownstoner treasure.
9.75%? What where are you getting that number from?
Oh no, Dave, QOTD is:
“Let me know if you go see it, I’ll come with you to protect you from all of the urban denizens the What thinks are training on the block. He must mean the drum and bugle corp that sometimes practices at the church.”
Montrose, you’re hysterical today.
BRG, go check it out, seriously. This is a good time to buy, as long as rents in the area are high enough to support your costs. If you can get the mortgage price down to below jumbo size, which I vaguely recall might be 750, it’ll be easier. You can put down 20 percent or 3 percent with an FHA loan but then you have to do PMI and that adds $300 per month.
Don’t be intimidated by those crazy fixer-upper costs people throw around. You do NOT have to replace all the electrical and plumbing, that is nonsense. OTOH, if you plan to make changes to baths and kitchens, or the water pressure is but a trickle on the top floor, then you will probably replace a pipe here or there.
Can we come to the house warming?
Having met Hubby, I look forward to seeing that.
Somehow, I don’t think he will be too keen on it.
You will stand out, that is a given.
🙂
“We are just so hesitant right now, with the economy in a downward spiral.”
The economy goes up and it goes down. Don’t let the media freak you out. It is perfectly normal for a free market economy to take a nose dive now and again. If you’re out of work, then that’s bad, but if you’re working and have your ducks more or less together, this is a peachy time to buy. One can never predict the very bottom of the market so one should buy when its going down. Are you going to want to sell again in six months? No. So what’s to worry if the prices go down further another six months? If you wait too long,the house may be gone.