House of the Day: 540 16th Street
The owners of 540 16th Street have had a tough time trying to sell their house. By the time it was listed with Brooklyn Properties last August (when we wrote about it for the first time) for $1,350,000, it had already been on the market as a FSBO asking $1,550,000 and with a small local…
The owners of 540 16th Street have had a tough time trying to sell their house. By the time it was listed with Brooklyn Properties last August (when we wrote about it for the first time) for $1,350,000, it had already been on the market as a FSBO asking $1,550,000 and with a small local broker for $1,499,000. Last month, the sellers finally bailed on Brooklyn Properties (where a price cut to $1,299,000 had not been enough to get the job done) and gave the nod to Warren Lewis where they’re getting a fresh start with an asking price of $1,185,000. This has to be getting pretty close to the market-clearing price for this charming Arts and Crafts pad, don’t you think?
540 16th Street [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
Sam –
I am a city dweller, have been for 20+ years. Also an environmental policy wonk. I don’t know why people choose to live right near major truck routes and build playgrounds on the BQE. I don’t get the appeal of living in industrial sites. There is pollution everywhere, yes, but more of it on major highways, on streets with tons of idling cars, and in industrial areas. Plenty of Brooklyn is zoned residential with streets with trees and not on major highways.
This house below looks like a much better deal:
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/414215-anyhouse-161-prospect-park-sw-windsor-terrace-brooklyn
The pictures make the place look very well cared for. beautiful actually.
I still love that green leather couch. Why are they covering it up with pillows?
I saw that estate sale house the same day – it was one block over on windsor place, I think. The house looked older, for sure, and the living room was covered in mirrors, but the caretaker, who had lived in it for years and was the sole beneficiary of the sale, was a meticulous (obsessive/compulsive, more likely) preservationist of the family heirloom. It was spotless. You could eat off the basement floor, and all the mechanicals were pristine. The yard was less appealing – mostly concrete, but otherwise, the houses were practically identical, save the basements.
I am capable of visualizing the basement without the clutter, Sam, but I thought it spoke more to the point that the place hadn’t been well cared for.
WTbound, you’re living in Brooklyn, no matter where you are you are close to major industrial activity and traffic. You don’t sound like a true city dweller, I mean what part of Brookly has no air pollution?
ditto: that’s cute.
Like the American visiting aristocratic friends in England and asking one day why they didn’t close the front door as it was chilly. the response was: “we wouldn’t dare old chap, it’s holding up the ceiling”
Oh okay, I was thinking of another place then. Yeah, that’s a nice block, I agree.
WT – it’s on 15th street closer to 7th avenue (btwn 6th and 7th)