House of the Day: 69 St. James Place
We featured this brownstone at 69 St. James Place in Clinton Hill as an Open House Pick back in June when it hit the market with a price tag of $1,995,000; it was reduced in September to $1,895,000 and again in November to $1,750,000, where it remains today. The house is in beautiful shape, with…
We featured this brownstone at 69 St. James Place in Clinton Hill as an Open House Pick back in June when it hit the market with a price tag of $1,995,000; it was reduced in September to $1,895,000 and again in November to $1,750,000, where it remains today. The house is in beautiful shape, with lots of original details and a recently resurfaced facade. We’ll see whether this will need another downward nudge to get a deal done. The fact that 298 Lafayette Avenue sold for $1,895,000 in August is encouraging, but that was pre-Lehman. Waddya think?
69 St. James Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Gee wiz, sorry to start such a heated debate. The biggest downside to this location in my opinion is the walk to the C train, though you could just take the G two stops to Hoyt and change to an A or C. If you work in downtown Manhattan (e.g. Canal Street and lower), it is a very quick commute (20-25 minutes door to door), midtown, you start to push 45 mins.
With the large Underwood playground around the corner on Lafayette and Washington for young kids (if you have them), Choice, the new pizza place, the Senegalese restaurant (Le Grand Dakar), Still Hip, Choice Greene Market, corner bodega etc. all within a couple of blocks, along with nearby higher end restaurants like Locanda Vini e Olii (not to mention all of the Fort Greene places that are within walking distance), I like the location. Plus you have the Flea a few blocks down Lafayette on Sundays if you like that sort of thing. I agree that places selling for close to and sometimes over $2MM in this part of Clinton Hill in the past couple of years to be surprising and not necessarily sustainable, especially now, but I think this is a good spot and for the right price will make someone happy. A good long term place to be which will significantly increase in value over the long term as well. The single family layout and 20 by 40 foot dimensions (a tad on the small side, especially the depth) detract a bit. Painted woodwork, well that’s subjective, and often the woodwork in earlier brownstones was painted because it was old growth pine, not a hardwood…
Anyway, good luck to the owners and any buyers…
LOL…Clintonk Hill was a typo, not a freudian slip!!!!
This area is on the fringe of Bed Stuy.
Seriously….yes, Bed Stuy is “geographically” the fringe of Brooklyn. However, when things other than geography are added to the definition of fringe, Stuyvesant Heights is better than a lot of the streets to the west well into Clintonk Hill!!!
And having the A train stop down the street in lovely Fulton Park makes it much more desireable.
getaclue should get one
clinton hill is fringe today, last year, and 10 yrs ago.
trying to sandwich me in getaclue?:)
News flash: crime happens everywhere in Brooklyn including the mostly white areas of Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and Park slope. Calling Clinton Hill “fringe” is silly, and probably the statement of people who don’t live here and are completely ignorant of all the great things that the neighborhood has to offer, including beautiful architecture, diverse/educated population, the Pratt community and great little shops/restaurants.
And yes, I am a young single professional woman living in the area (who often walks home alone at night, scary!).
So please, cowards, white breaders and haters, stay far away from my hood. You are not welcome.
signed,
Proud Clinton Hill Resident
11217 says it well. Just to add my two cents, I would love to live in a fringe (no/low subway access) area, and in Clinton Hill I consider that north of Willoughby. I went walking there this summer and it felt like another world. I hated to have to return to Dekalb or Fulton.
13th Ave. in Dyker Heights is also like that, but Clinton Hill’s architecture is way superior.
News flash: crime happens everywhere in Brooklyn including the mostly white areas of Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and Park slope. Calling Clinton Hill “fringe” is silly, and probably the statement of people who don’t live here and are completely ignorant of all the great things that the neighborhood has to offer, including beautiful architecture, diverse/educated population, the Pratt community and great little shops/restaurants.
And yes, I am a young single professional woman living in the area (who often walks home alone a night, scary!).
So please, cowards, white breaders and haters, stay far away from my hood. You are not welcome.
signed,
Proud Clinton Hill Resident
Love the use of “slaughtered” BHO. Such a cheery word.