House of the Day: 212 Midwood Street
The interior of this brownstone at 212 Midwood Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens has been beautifully renovated. The big question, then, is whether that’s enough to compensate for the fact that the house has only two above-ground floors (plus an English basement). The asking price is $979,000, which would fly if there were another floor,…
The interior of this brownstone at 212 Midwood Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens has been beautifully renovated. The big question, then, is whether that’s enough to compensate for the fact that the house has only two above-ground floors (plus an English basement). The asking price is $979,000, which would fly if there were another floor, but we’re not optimistic given its actual size. Thoughts?
212 Midwood Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
lucybb,
I can’t tell if the tub is the c.1910 original or new. I’ve seen old tubs that look like that. They basically substitute a solid base for the feet on a claw-foot tub.
lucybb…there may be a link on the remodelista site to a tub like that. See yesterday’s Closing Bell or whatever the last on of the day is where they highlighted the industrial kitchen in the links
WTF, ty?
“I hate these friggin’ abbreviations.”
Hell, it’s just as easy, maybe easier, to type ‘freaking’…
🙂
It’s not certain that you get bigger bang for your buck in Ditmas–a more subjective choice than that. Ditmas Park frame houses are beautiful but tend to have very small rooms. That’s the reason we ended up in PLG/LM after looking at many frame houses further south. That was MANY years ago, but the nature of the houses hasn’t changed.
Also, although the upkeep of ANY old house can be a challenge, I, for one, find the though of maintaining a frame house really scary. That doesn’t mean that I don’t admire frame houses though. I wish I had a porch.
Can anyone ID the tub? I love it and want to put in my renovation file, in case we ever find the right house or the bag of dough we are missing in order to buy it. Thanks!
A million bucks sure doesn’t buy you much……
No crown mouldings and mirror-like kitchen cabinets.
Bob Marvin!! You bastard! You know I can resist looking up what these stupid abbreviations mean!
You MIGHT be able to rent the whole house for that amount but the population of people looking for such a rental is probably pretty limited–you might wait a long time for a tenant.
Can we talk PLG? The few historic blocks are nice, but there is NO infrastructure to speak of. Seems to me, though I’d be happy to hear otherwise, that if you’re going for PLG, you might as well move further out to Ditmas or even Midwood to get a bigger bang for your buck. There’s also more by way of urban pleasures in Ditmas. PLG, sandwiched between Flatbush and Rogers, seems like the worst of both worlds.