House of the Day: 455 Henry Street
This house at 455 Henry Street has a very nice feel to it (or at least the renovated owner’s duplex does), but the fact that the house is less than 17 feet wide and has two rental units make the asking price of $2,250,000, in our mind, pretty aggressive. The house will be delivered vacant…
This house at 455 Henry Street has a very nice feel to it (or at least the renovated owner’s duplex does), but the fact that the house is less than 17 feet wide and has two rental units make the asking price of $2,250,000, in our mind, pretty aggressive. The house will be delivered vacant but converting it to a one- or two-family house won’t be free. Thoughts?
455 Henry Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Map shows it 2 blocks from BQE, but I assume it’s not visible/facing away, so doesn’t feel like it.
Anyway, too expensive, and anyone w/ 2Mil plus interested in creating a one-family house has a lot better options to choose from. An overreach
> floral wallpaper will be back in vogue any minute now.
Along with bustles and whalebone corsets!
It would not take much to reconfigure the interior back to a single family. I would deduct $9,000 from the sale price for a new Landmarks-approvable front door though. The backyard is beautiful, the interiors are adorable, and it’s in Cobble Hill, which is golden. They won’t get ask but at least it will sell for a decent price sometime soon. Mark my words: floral wallpaper will be back in vogue any minute now.
that front door looks 1930s to me. Might get a buck or two for it.
This is not really near the BQE but it is *miles* from the subway. That walk is looooong. I know, I used to do it.
It does seem overpriced, but they don’t need to convert anything. They have two or three bedrooms on the English basement level and DR, LR, and kitchen on the parlor floor. They probably get about $4,000 a month for two floor-throughs.
Something about the LR is a little funky — they seem to have opened up the wall and enclosed the stair, yet left the original door to the parlor sitting there — like Stonehenge.
The cutesy-poo decor is easy enough to change.
Great garden, but $2.25 Mil for a 17-foot wide building? Get real.
Nice reno if you like that sort of thing, but those rooms are far to cramped to be in the 2 mil stratosphere.
And where are the floor plans please?
I don’t know this block well, and I’m sure it’s lovely, but a little close to the BQE, no?
change that front door already. Seems like a common replacement door of what vintage not sure – early 60’s.
Otherwise looks very nice.
Awesome block, totally worth it.