House of the Day: 1265 Dean Street
What’s a beautiful house in Crown Heights North worth these days? We have no idea, but this listing at 1265 Dean Street should help provide a data point. The four-story Romanesque Revival house is dripping with original detail, including some serious wood paneling, and is located on “one of the loveliest blocks in all of…
What’s a beautiful house in Crown Heights North worth these days? We have no idea, but this listing at 1265 Dean Street should help provide a data point. The four-story Romanesque Revival house is dripping with original detail, including some serious wood paneling, and is located on “one of the loveliest blocks in all of Brooklyn,” according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The corner location means lots of light but, on the downside, it also means higher taxes. The asking price is $925,000. Any guesses?
1265 Dean Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
DIBS,
I remember but I wasn’t the one who caught you. I didn’t get so wrapped up in the guest v. login wars. BTG stirred the pot nicely in that debate, if I remember. But what/BHO/Dow — now that’s funny. Someday our kids (well, maybe not yours, DIBS) will ask, where were you in the great sock puppet wars of 2009?
First of all, to see the full side view of this house, look at my Flickr link from yesterday. It’s there. Gorgeous lines, beautiful stained glass windows, some of which need replacing, but hey, everything else is in great shape. Also, there is no backyard, but one could easily put a large deck on the roof of the adjoined 2 car garage.
I’m afraid I don’t know local schools that well, as I don’t have kids, but I do know they are building a new school 2 blocks away, and a friend of mine is involved, and I wouldn’t get between her and education. I also know that an Episcopalian parochial school, St. Mark’s Day School, is with walking distance, or a 10 block bus ride away at President and Brooklyn, on the other side of Eastern Parkway
What, you and your sock puppet BHO are wrong. But that’s ok. My new defense of my neighborhood is this: if you want to believe the worst without checking it out yourself, fine. Don’t buy in a neighborhood that will only rise in value over the long haul. Don’t move to a block chock full of some of the finest residential architecture in Brooklyn, easily comparable to the “name” streets of Park Slope.(same architects, in many cases) Please forget even visiting an ethnically and economically diverse block with friendly neighbors, proximity to an excellent supermarket, banking and the subway.
And please, don’t move around the corner from me. You’ll be coming home safely at night, even across Atlantic Ave, which is no big deal unless you can’t tell red from green stop lights. I don’t want to see you gardening in your front yard, and tending your pots on that spacious stoop, or joining a very powerful block association, and the Crown Heights North Association, working for positive change in the neighborhood. I don’t want you to have the constant sense of wonder at looking out from your stoop upon two of the most magnificent churches in the city. I really don’t want you to have that beautiful woodwork, or hear the saws and hammers as you fix this place up to the way you want it. Most of all, I don’t want to someday be in my backyard and see you living it up on your deck. Brxgrl,M4L, ENY and I might come over for a snack. You’ll never get rid of us. You really don’t want that.
Brooklynista…you won’t have to wait 20 years for that!!!
You know something guys? This is getting too easy and it’s a shame. The retards look for anything to escape the truth about asset prices. Team Retard lives in a perpetual state of denial. The whole Banking system is insolvent and the asshead are going to down in flames to defend their point. Real Estate is so fucking over and the point now is just to manage from day to day. The only thing “Going up” these days are unemployment and prices (Not Real Estate). It’s like watching the Bug say “oh look at the pretty light” before they get zapped. The only way this period of time to correct itself is for all of us to die and let the future straiten things out..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
That is an incredible block and (based only on selective photos) that is one gorgeous looking house. We considered a house on this block when we were looking to buy over 20 years ago. The houses and block were beautiful then and the scene is even more beautiful now. At 20′ wide, four stories with a 2-story extension, parking space for 2 cars, and already stripped and rewired, my thinking is that $925k is a great deal . . . even in this market! I can only imagine how the brownstoner posters 20 years from now will be gnashing their teeth that they didn’t jump on this house when it could be bought for a relative song in bubble bust times of ’09.
I saw that too, but I’d just blow out the wall or part of it, and enlarge the kitchen.
Posted by: denton at April 23, 2009 4:19 PM
It’s going to have to be a big blowout to fit those giant ranges, denton. 🙂
“A second big glitch is the tiny side kitchen in the owner’s triplex. Though the adjacent breakfast room is awesome.”
Hey Mopar, I saw that too, but I’d just blow out the wall or part of it, and enlarge the kitchen.
I remember when I outed myself as Bold Type Guest…it was the same situation…I commented on something I thought I had said but had not yet!!! LOL
I think slopefarm you were there that night. You may have been the one who caught it.
Yes Yes Yes!!!!! My sock-puppets will take over the world!!!!!
The I don’t know now
Someday peak comps will peak…