House of the Day: 743 Eastern Parkway
Describing this house at 743 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights as being “near the Brooklyn Museum” is a bit of a stretch but it’s still kinda interesting, we think. There are two parking spots in the front driveway and a legal professional office on the ground floor for income generation. The two upper floors are…
Describing this house at 743 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights as being “near the Brooklyn Museum” is a bit of a stretch but it’s still kinda interesting, we think. There are two parking spots in the front driveway and a legal professional office on the ground floor for income generation. The two upper floors are currently configured as two separate apartments but there’s no reason they couldn’t be connected to make an owner’s duplex. There’s a surprising amount of original detail left in the house as well. Asking price: $650,000. Good buy?
743 Eastern Parkway [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
No, sparafucile- but the facts do. And the concensus of museum professionals who do know say so.
rob- you’re hopeless. Maybe you feel that way about museums however there are millions of people who don’t. Since you’ve never been specific about what you do its hard for anyone to take your comments as to being “in the field” seriously. And if you are, I can’t imagine why you are.
Brownstoner:
The house is a shambles but if brought back (first, by getting rid of the parking pad!) would be a sweet spot on the parkway — one of my favorite places when I grew up in Crown Heights during the 50’s.
The width. The greenery. For a little kid, the imposing houses and apartment buildings. And best of all, the museum, gardens, and park at the end.
I lived all the way over on Pacific Street between Nostrand and New York Avenues and — for the naysayers posting here — all of the parkway’s amenities were handy and definitely perceived as part of my neighborhood.
The parkway’s best season? Winter, when on snow-covered days I’d drag my toboggan to Prospect Park, picking up pals along the way. By the time we hit the hills there’d be twelve or fifteen of us, unescorted by our parents, crashing down the slopes until twilight, when we’d head back on the parkway, my little brother and I the last to hit home.
No thoughts about distance or time or the cold. Just pure unalloyed pleasure.
How we envied the kids who lived in the big, elevator apartments along the thoroughfare. They had everything, as far as we were concerned, most especially the children’s reading room at the library. And the parkway taught us a bit of history, too. The trees leading to the library each had a plaque dedicated to World-War-I dead — are they still there? — connecting us by names of the fallen to this great event and giving even the happiest days a poignant moment.
One wag once wrote that if this were a just world, Eastern Parkway would be the city’s best address.
For a little kid, it was.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Only phbalanced noted the most prominant thing about this house: proximity to Lubavitch world HQ. If you can tear this down and build ‘student housing’ under the Community Facility bulk (an old trick), you might really have something.
Unfortunately, saying that the Brooklyn Museum’s collections rival the Metropolitan’s won’t make it so.
bonnard was a pervert who molested his wife when she was disabled. (seriously). he’s the one who did all the bathtub pics of her right?
*rob*
That’s ridiculous, rob. I just saw the Bonnard show at the Met. That was a once in a life time experience. Some of those painting are almost never seen. Those paintings, his late paintings, are among the greatest paintings of the 20th century. I’m a painter. Bonnard’s work has changed my life.
Gilbert & George
blah overrated
Murakami,
no clue
Ghada Amer
no clue
Basquiat
warhol dingleberry
im sorry but i find people who claim to love museums really dont like them they just pretend cuz it’s a cultured thing to like. (and i work in the industry btw so im not just talking out of my butthole)
*rob*
I know it’s kind of tacky, but I like the front parking area. It would be so convenient. Although this is not the most prestigious of addresses, it seems like a solid value if the house is in decent condition and if you can negotiate another ten or fifteen percent off the price.
bxgrl – that must have been very cool. I only make it to the Brooklyn Museum a few times per year, but I’ve seen some excellent exhibitions there. Gilbert & George, Murakami, Ghada Amer, and Basquiat come immediately to mind.
stringer you jackass…you should have bought the options. mine went from $0.05 to $0.58. You suck at trying to buy stuff at the bottom. Probably at calling the bottom of the RE market as well. Amateur!!!!