House of the Day: 213 Congress Street
Finally some fresh blood! It’s been slim pickings in the new listings department this year so far but this immaculate single-family brick at 213 Congress changes that. The 25-foot-wide house has had the same owner for four decades but appears to have recently undergone a pretty serious (and traditional) renovation, from the massive kitchen to…
Finally some fresh blood! It’s been slim pickings in the new listings department this year so far but this immaculate single-family brick at 213 Congress changes that. The 25-foot-wide house has had the same owner for four decades but appears to have recently undergone a pretty serious (and traditional) renovation, from the massive kitchen to the landscaped backyard. Whether the buyers out there are ready to pay up for it remains to be seen: The asking price is $4,400,000, or more than $1,000 a foot. Possible?
213 Congress Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
It is beyond stupid that people who have only seen pictures are convinced that the people who have seen THE REAL THING IN CONTEXT don’t know what they are talking about. DIBS, take a stroll on that lovely block and then post about how ugly and awful the whole thing is. The point about rows of brownstones being the true brownstone experience is valid, but certainly not for everybody.
Anyway, we can all agree that the price is a stretch, beautiful view or hideous view. Sheesh.
Saw the pics Whuh. Its an unsightly large building. Others have agreed. What more does it take??????
If you like it, go live there but if you tell me that you believe someone will pay anything close to $4.4MM then you are out of your mind. Agree???
DIBS,
No kidding? I had no idea she died so recently. Erastus died in 1983, in office, I think it was his ninth term as mayor of Albany, when I fisrt went to Albany in 1990 I only heard about the “legend” of Corning and Noonan. However the new Senator’s father is still very much involved in lobbying efforts in Albany. He was close to Bruno. Ah, Albany…the house prices are good there, but you really have to love politics to enjoy the lifestyle.
Most of the old city was demolished by Nelson Rockefeller to build his Brasilia of the north complex. A weird weird place. At least they didn’t tear down the capital and put up a flying saucer in its place.
You mislabeled it the projects, PD –so you have never seen it; therefore you do not know whether it is sightly or comely. (Do you make all your judgments based on Google maps?)
Danny…that’s where I was born…ain’t never going back.
Whuh…it’s unsightly to me so that’s all that matters. If you want to pay big bucks for that house then go right ahead.
Panic Dave –lovely block, that building is nondescript but not unsightly, and so once again, you are wrong. This goes in the threes, maybe; but how many people are left with this kind of la-di-da at their disposal, and how many of them want to live in Brooklyn? Seriously, the restriction of supply is artificial and temporary; the restriction of demand, not so much.
Dave – those Albany places really are great though.
Is that your next city? If you put up with Chicago winters, you can handle Albany.
DIBS and and 11217,
I agree that if I’m shelling out $4.4 million for a house I’m not buying a one that looks out at that apartment building. If I was trading my house & buying something that I could afford, maybe a quarter of that price, then I’d have no issue.
fyi, If you select the start of one of those links that goes off the page and go down to the next line, you’ll end up getting the missing characters you can’t see. And why do url’s sometimes post as links and other times as text that runs off the edge behind the space reserved for ads? Some quirks that maybe Mr. B. can look in to fixing