House of the Day: 601 6th Street
While the intense colors and period vibe might be a little much for some people, the house at 601 6th Street in Park Slope is undeniably top-notch. Located just off the park, the 4,400-square-foot turn-of-the-century house is configured as a three family, so there’s lots of extra income to help cover the mortgage you’ll have…
While the intense colors and period vibe might be a little much for some people, the house at 601 6th Street in Park Slope is undeniably top-notch. Located just off the park, the 4,400-square-foot turn-of-the-century house is configured as a three family, so there’s lots of extra income to help cover the mortgage you’ll have to take out to cover the asking price of $2,695,000. While that’s a lot of money these days, it doesn’t seem crazy given the size, quality and location of this place. After all, a year ago this would have been priced somewhere north of $3 million.
601 6th Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Santa…you and John Wayne Gacy both!!!
chicken – but if the Europeans start lowering interest rates (which I’ve read they will eventually need to do), won’t that have the effect of helping the dollar? Also, many say interest rates here will eventually have to go up, given all the money the Fed is printing, and that too would exert deflationary pressure on homes, right?
In any event, as I’ve stated here many times (too many for some), I’m convinced prices, even in prime bklyn, have much farther to fall.
If you look at the floor plan, there are no windows in the front room on the fifth floor — but there is what looks like a pretty big skylight. This must be a “cheater” wherein the ceiling of that room dramatically slopes down to the floor giving the building the appearance of being a floor smaller than it really is. The rooms behind the front room all have regular height ceilings. Our house in PH is like this (but 4 floors, not 5). I read — maybe in Charles Lockwood’s Bricks and Brownstones — it was a dodge to enable the homeowner to pay less property tax. The property tax assessor would walk the streets noting down the number of floors and windows of each house and taxes were apportioned accordingly. Sometimes these cheater floors have eyebrow windows which can be seen in the cornice if you look carefully. In other situations — like this house — the extra floor is truly invisible from the street.
I’m curious to know if anyone on this site has a hidden extra floor and, if so, what they do with it.
To pay that much and not have privacy within your own home because tenants share the staircase opening to your bedrooms is crazy. I dated someone once who rented a one-bedroom within a family brownstone. It was ridiculous – it felt like a rooming house. We, more than once, walked past their open bedroom door….
there are no basements where I grew up.
just crawl spaces.
I didn’t say I disagree with you bkny. LOL Where I grew up basement was where the furnace was as well.
Bring the kids Miss Muffett! I’ll be nice to you!
btw, after the news last night about the Fed’s planned actions and the dollar’s subsequent moves have you reconsidered your position on the inflation/deflation debate we had a while back? (you were strongly in the deflation camp)
ok – cellar. born and raised in bk. i guess i just find the term basement bothersome, to mean subpar or dark and dungeoney. whenever someone says ‘i love what you did with your basement’ i just cringe and want to scream – this is my 1st floor. the second floor parlor is above and the ‘basement’ is below.
ok, i feel better that that’s off my chest now!
another great house I need to hit lottery to afford. relatively to listing out currently, this is not outrageous. Yesterday’s Cobble Hill house was asking 2.5M. Would take this over that.
am I alone in thinking if I can afford these prices, I really dont want to deal with tenants?