House of the Day: 291 State Street
There’s certainly something to the broker’s description of 291 State Street in Boerum Hill as being a “time capsule.” In addition to the requisite moldings and other details, the 3,024-square-foot brownstone is furnished (and wallpapered!) straight out of the high Victorian era. This place also has the distinction of abutting the 14 new townhouses that…
There’s certainly something to the broker’s description of 291 State Street in Boerum Hill as being a “time capsule.” In addition to the requisite moldings and other details, the 3,024-square-foot brownstone is furnished (and wallpapered!) straight out of the high Victorian era. This place also has the distinction of abutting the 14 new townhouses that were recently built on State Street. Asking price: $2,100,000. Would have been a lay-up a year ago, still not insane today.
291 State Street [CBHK] GMAP P*Shark
corner, with those kinds of comments, we don’t have to speculate, you give yourself away.
Dibs, you can only speculate as to what $$$ class I’m in. In your case its clear. BED STUY. We’re already hearing conversations across NYC, “haha, some idiots even laid out money speculating in the ghetto, lol”
Sam — again you seem to indicate that you don’t know the area, and by area I mean Brooklyn. On this block alone you have 14 new townhouses that of which 11 sold for $2.5 million or more in the last 2 years (I am not srue, but I think there may still be 2 or 3 unsold). Across the street, I think a couple of house sold on the open market for between $1.5 and $2 million maybe 2 or 3 years ago.
Does that mean this house is worth over $2 million? I doubt it, but my guess is that it well sell at $1.6 to $1.8, depending on its physical state, and the owner will be far from being the richest person in even a two block radius.
As for wealthy people taking trains, they certainly take them to work if they work in midtown. The only people I know who take cabs in the morning on a regular basis are traders who live in Cobble Hill and would rather pay the small fare to downtown (at 6 or 6:30 am when there is no traffic anyway) than walk ten or fifteen blocks to Borough Hall. Coming home, a lot of high income earners who work past 7, 8 or 9 (I think all the investment banks moved back the free car to 9 pm now) do take cars if they want.
Just because you aren’t wealthy cornerbodega, doesn’t mean wealthy people don’t ride the trains. Get back to stocking that detergent in the windows.
You’re pretty dumb aren’t you?
As usual the delusional cheerleaders fail to grasp simple nyc class characteristics. Wealthy people don’t ride trains. “Oh but I’ve seen my millionaire neighbor on the train” lol pure ignorance. Corp lawyers, ad execs, directors, wall st etc etc all have limo service. At worst cabs are paid for.
Heather, I’m not sure if I had two million dollars to spend on a house that this would be the sort of “central” I would be looking for. I would not want to be the richest person in a half-mile radius.
you know?
I think this house would be worth close to that just because of the location, although I realize not everyone likes the location. But it doesn’t get more central.
And for what it’s worth, the decor suits the house.
in the old days (80’s, 90’s) it was often said that there were two classes of people in NY. Those who rode the subways and those who did not. That has changed. Not because the subways have gotten any more pleasant, they have not, but rather because they are so much safer. Younger folks, even affluent ones, are not that reluctant to take the trains. I, who am not old but alas not young, cannot really bring myself to bond with the underground. I believe there are more people like me than you all may think. The Mayor is of course a perfect phony. He has his motorcade of SUV’s pick him up at his door, drive him to 86th and Lex, where he gets the subway for a few stops and then the entourage picks him up and delivers him to wherever his first meeting is. I love to drive and find to my delight that the roads lately are almost empty. Much better than they used to be. If they pass congestion pricing, as I hope, then it will be only I and the honchos of Goldman Sachs on the streets. Paradise.