House of the Day: 132 Rutland Road
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price…
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price of $1,100,000 may be too high above the psychological barrier of a million bucks. What do you think?
132 Rutland Road [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
“Each of these nabes has spectacular homes and other features which allow them to stand on their own. Isn’t that enough?”
That would have been my choice for quote of the day (had it not been posted too late). I have little patience for invidious comparisons between brownstone neighborhoods [which is NOT to say that AH wrote anything all that terrible].
Amzi, I am not “hurt” by your post, have no “hard feelings” towards you and have much love for PLG, and BS and CH. In fact, I’ve got much love for most of Brooklyn (consider my choice of handle)! As such, I am capable of boosting PLG as well as other Brooklyn nabes all at the same time. I only wish more of us could do the same and I think my original post made that point pretty clear.
BTW, I have no idea what the Rutland Road house is really worth. Not only have I never been inside this house, but also, I’m not one to speculate on the market value of a property just by looking at a few photos online. IMHO, Rutland Road is one of the most beautiful blocks in all of Lefferts Manor/PLG. At the height of the bubble, houses were selling on Rutland at well over 1M. Since the crash, I don’t have a clue what a house like this, in PLG, will go for. But, until there are some actual sales on Rutland I and II (as opposed to Stuyvesant Ave, e.g.)in the current economy, it’s all just a blogsite guessing game is it not?
That said, ’nuff said!
Brooklynista,
I am pro Brooklyn not just pro Bed Stuy. I was stating a fact about a house in what you called a “fringe” (a word I am really starting to hate) neighborhood. For a house to cost over a million dollars I do not call this a fringe area anymore. When I did talk about the neigborhood PLG I agreed that you guys have a wonderful park that we don’t have close by.
I am going to compare every thing on here to Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and other neighborhoods in the brownstone belt. I would hope that you do the same thing about PLG. Yes this is a beautiful brownstone in a wonderful area but why is this price so expensive? I have a big problem when Realtor get lucky and sell one house for over a million then a domino effect happens in a area. If I have hurt you in any way I am sorry but please do not be so sensitive. Please I have seen every ghetto insult about Bedford Stuyvesant on here. I will not change the way I post for you. Why don’t you call out people when there is a Brooklyn Heights house and the Park Slope folk come around saying that they have the best neighborhood ever.
Come on Brooklynista you can’t think this house is worth 1.1 when you really can buy the same home in lets say Crown Heights if that makes you feel better for half price. If you read my post I say nothing negative about this house except for the price… I never speak in a negative way about homes on this site unless it is on the horror show Friday.
Yes I love my neighborhood and you should love yours. Please boost about PLG on BS day. I don’t think I or anyone else from BS would care. Like I have said earlier and many times on there before I am going to continue to talk about mine neighborhood when I feel like it. I am over this now and this is the last thing I am going to say about this to you. I have no hard feelings and I hope you don’t either have a good night.
Amzi,
I’ve lived in PLG for the last 20 years. At other points in my life, I’ve also lived in both Bed Stuy and Crown Heights. I’ve always thought that Bed Stuy and Crown Heights have some of the most outstanding architecture in all of New York City — not just Brooklyn. In fact, when we were looking to purchase a home of our own in ’88, we nearly bought houses in both BS and CH before choosing a home in PLG. (We opted for the PLG house for a variety of reasons not the least of which included the move-in condition of the home, stability of the surrounding area, the home’s beautiful architecture and original details and the especially great location which offered proximity to Prospect Park, BBG, Parade Grounds, the Wildlife Center, and major bus and subway routes.)
As such, I can say without reserve that I love all three neighborhoods and am a serious advocate for each of these so-called “fringe” areas. (You gotta ask: whose “fringe” is it anyway?) I’ve also typically enjoyed your pro-Bed Stuy posts. But I’m a bit disappointed by your pro-Bed Stuy postings today on a thread about an obviously beautiful PLG house. What’s up with the “fringe” neighborhood one-upmanish? Why even play into this game of which ‘hood on the fringe is better and which fringe hood should command a higher price? Each of these nabes has spectacular homes and other features which allow them to stand on their own. Isn’t that enough?
mopar those are just examples I found really fast.. I have been inside many homes that are on the market especially east of Malcolm X. Many of these small Realtors are just lazy people that don’t know the Brooklyn brownstone market.. The last Hancock Street HOTD has the same screen work but Corcoran did not show it in photos.
“Most houses with an English basement level, have a full cellar below”
If they did,I don’t think they’d be called English basements Dave. AFAIK English basement houses have a basement that’s habitable, because it’s more than half above grade, but where the utilities (furnace or boiler, etc.) are located on that level because there’s no cellar beneath. There are lots of houses like that on the eastern end ofmost LM blocks, but this one isn’t one of them.
Amzi, have you been inside the houses in the links you posted and they have the same detail? Because with the lower priced houses, the realtors often don’t show any interior photos, and you would never know!
That screen is gorgeous! It’s pretty rare to see one intact, as well. If I owned this, I’d be wow’ed every time I walked in the door, it would never get tired.
I hope it is bought by someone who feels the same. Don’t know about pricing, these days, who knows? But if someone really wants it, they will pay for it, and that might be closer to the asking price than people might ordinarily think. Call it the Fretwork Factor.
Great house, great block, great 2008 price!
I heard a guy who bought a house on the first block of Rutland spent $1.4M then tricked it up to the tune of 300K-plus. Those ain’t bed-stuy numbers. . . .