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
Yes, sam, who continually posts comments demonstrating his knowledge of Brooklyn, particularly Brooklyn Heights, knows far less than PropJoe, who is pretty much known solely for his anti-semetic comments. PropJoe, please shut your piehole.
oooooh, Prop Joe getting feisty! Them’s fightin’ words.
Boerum Hill is a made-up name so I guess the borders can be made up too. The historic district is entirely on the south side of Atlantic. Traditionally this area was considered Downtown. And Downtown alas, sucks.
I’ve gotten into some trouble in these here parts for jumping into this argument before, but no, Sam. There is virtually zero chance that someone spending 2 million on a Brownstone in Brooklyn ain’t gonna be takin’ the subway a significant amount of the time. So many of these folks are selling condos and coops in Manhattan worth twice that and then setting up shop in the better borough (Brooklyn).
We’re hoping to do it, and I think a large portion of Brownstone buyers are doing it – or rather WERE doing it.
This is not the UES’ Gold Coast, with folks alighting from Town cars with drivers, carrying packages from Bergdorf’s into their homes.
Perhaps the bathrooms do need a bit of an upgrade.
Toto toilets? That’d raise it at least 100K.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=111991195824916846969.000442eac81763735c056&ll=40.685731,-73.986847&spn=0.011667,0.020084&z=16&iwloc=000442ead30daff42f1f9
This is Boerum Hill, moron.
http://smalltownbrooklyn.com/boerumhill/boerumhome.html
I really don’t want to keep flogging this dead horse, but do we really think that someone sho spends two million dollars on a house is going to be using the subway much? Again, the scenario this year is different from last, you have to have a lot of money to qualify for a big mortgage.
Or you have to have cash. either way, those stations near this house are pretty grundgy.
We have some significant nabe strrrrrretchhhhhhing going on.
Yesterday’s HOTD, located in Gowanus but considered Park Slope quite chirpily by its brokers. Today’s HOTD, located on a not-so-great stretch of State Street, in downtown Brooklyn, touted as Boerum Hill.
“Hey, wait a minute…” Me says.