House of the Day: 897 Union Street
We have mixed feelings about 897 Union Street, a single-family house in Park Slope just listed for $2,995,000. The exterior of the building is beautiful but something was definitely lost in the top-to-bottom renovation that was done recently. The kitchen works for us but the house as a whole ends up feeling neither fish nor…
We have mixed feelings about 897 Union Street, a single-family house in Park Slope just listed for $2,995,000. The exterior of the building is beautiful but something was definitely lost in the top-to-bottom renovation that was done recently. The kitchen works for us but the house as a whole ends up feeling neither fish nor fowl. It’s sorta modern but sorta traditional and, as a result, doesn’t really nail either vibe. (And there’s definitely too much recessed lighting for our tastes.) The current owners paid $2,600,000 in March 2005, so it will be interesting to see if they can get out with their shirts on their backs.
897 Union Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I meant “thanks a lot”, but perhaps “thanks a knot” would have been more a propos.
gemini – i dunno. maybe it was the eyes or teeth, just first reaction was that she resembled alex. ok, wouldnt want to take a thread off topic.
Sheesh, so much for the quip i was about to post regarding the listing agent’s hairdo. Thanks a not new2!
more money than taste, it will sell
Sort of odd that the kitchen is two floors below the formal living room/dining room. Of course there’s the dumbwaiter for that issue. Some (and I stress some) of the decor looks nice. I don’t like the setup, though. But I’m a stickler for tradition with these brownstones (sweet memories of my Aunt’s First Street house–you know, wood, double parlor, kitchen/dining room on the garden level, etc.). Of course, I can’t afford it anyway, so it’s a non-issue.
No 1: It’s a perfectly fine house, in the top 5% of what you find in Park Slope.
No 2: I don’t recall the owners of the house asking what “Mr B” thought of his house when they put it on the market.
No 3: I think this whole Brownstoner tradition of reading the real estate listings and then making (more often than not) snarky comments about the listings has become (1) obnoxious, (2) lame, (3) generally reactionary and (4) transparently driven by envy.
I mean, it’s not likely Mr B is saving Penn Station from the wrecking ball with posts like this. It’s really just rude.
It looks more like a Star Trek kitchen to me. Ot is it a Nascar-inspired rear spoiler?
The 80’s called,
they want their wall units back.
When I think McMansion, I think of those ghastly “Tuscan” kitchens.