House of the Day: 53 South Elliott Street
When we last looked at 53 South Elliott Place, the 3,600-square-foot one-family house in Fort Greene, Corcoran had the listing at $3,700,000. Apparently, the recently renovated house did not sell, since Douglas Elliman has had the listing since last August at an asking price of $3,495,000. There’s no doubt that it’s a gorgeous house, but…

When we last looked at 53 South Elliott Place, the 3,600-square-foot one-family house in Fort Greene, Corcoran had the listing at $3,700,000. Apparently, the recently renovated house did not sell, since Douglas Elliman has had the listing since last August at an asking price of $3,495,000. There’s no doubt that it’s a gorgeous house, but it was expensive last year and still is expensive today.
53 South Elliott Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 53 South Elliott Place [Brownstoner]
Bolder…I’m not telling.
I never met Schrager.
At the time, I was working for a firm that was doing the construction documents for this particular hotel.
Okay, this bathroom. It’s not luxurious enough!! There I said it. Let’s take it to the next level.
Re-design:
Move the tub so it’s in centered in front of the fireplace….oh.la, la!! Double sinks, one in front of each window where the tub is now. What about mirrors, you ask? Let’s put them on a hidden track so they slide fron the wall to in front of the sinks, heck you can afford anything!
Where the sinks are now, I’d create a room for the toilet and bidet.
Where the toilet and shower is now, create a huge 6’x6′ shower, with jets on two walls…spa, baby!
Now, that’s a bathroom!
Nokilissa, I believe most of the violent muggings have been in Clinton Hill and nearer to Brooklyn Heights. Park Slope has also had some doozies. Fort Greene had a mugging on DeKalb a number of months ago. I’m sure all areas have many muggings that go unreported of course.
I’m sure some might disagree, but it seems to me as a resident of Fort Greene that in the landarmked Fort Greene area, it is not that dangerous. There are always so many people around. Even at regular hours, I find that long stretch of 6th Avenue from Flatbush to Union in Park Slope can be rather desolate.
I was shocked at the number of violent muggings downtown toward Brooklyn Heights…I think the article in the Brooklyn Paper was a link on this morning’s Brownstoner news articles.
Anyway, if you lived in that house, you could stay in all the time in a big Vitabath and stay off the streets. 🙂
Have to add to this because I noticed this house in the NYTimes real estate section a couple of months ago. Love the master bath – truly decadent with a tub and fireplace in the middle of the room – and I think the Mister and I would be separated by now if we didn’t have double sinks. Only thing missing, agree with BRG on this, is a bidet.
Isn’t this the same block someone was “violently mugged” on a couple of weeks ago?
brg, since you’re on an anonymous web forum, why wouldn’t you say which hotel you worked on?
Next time I see Ian, I’ll ask him if he remembers working with BayRidgeGirl…
Used to love going to the Royalton for drinks, if only for the groovy men’s room…
Rob, be sure to check with a structural engineer before you put in the lucite floor.
“…last days of Rome…” You might be onto something, Sam.
How about a luau in the bathroom with a whole roast suckling pig and a 24-hour remorse clause in the contract?
I would suspect that the dressing area is lined with closets on both sides. Or at least hope that it is.
I hope whoever buys this has a wife with less stuff than mine. You can put a king size bed in the master bath but not enough room for the wife’s shoes…
Greene, not the Royalton or the Paramount, but another Schrager hotel…I won’t say which. I only worked on the Penthouse suites…they were hot, hot, hot!
This bathroom needs a huge suspended ‘Stark’ light fixture in the middle of the room.