House of the Day: 315 Garfield Place
Probably the nicest house for sale in Brooklyn right now, 315 Garfield Place hit the market last September asking $8,500,000 and was reduced to the current price of $7,750,000 back in June. While that’s a tough number in this market (or any, really), consider that the 26-foot-wide brownstone has almost 7,000 square feet of space…
Probably the nicest house for sale in Brooklyn right now, 315 Garfield Place hit the market last September asking $8,500,000 and was reduced to the current price of $7,750,000 back in June. While that’s a tough number in this market (or any, really), consider that the 26-foot-wide brownstone has almost 7,000 square feet of space and has been immaculately renovated. Still, at this rarified price point, it’s more about whether some banker or movie star is going to fall in love and have to have it than rationally comparing it to price per square foot comps around in the area. And given that the current owners paid less than $4 million for the house (pre-renovation, presumably) back in 2006, they can probably afford to be patient.
315 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Closing Bell: 315 Garfield Place, The Movie [Brownstoner]
As Minard Lafever said, however, I can walk from home to City Hall in Manhattan in 45 minutes, via the Brooklyn Bridge, which is how I commute home most nights, and for which purpose proximity is key for me.
Dibs, Get your mind (or your head) out of the commode!
The only thing I don’t like is the front door… Great property…
11217, some days I can get from BH to midtown (near GCT) in about 30 minutes door-to-door, but most days it takes me 40-45. It all depends on how the 4 and 5 are running. For reasons unclear to me, they are notoriously slow (and hot and overcrowded) and there is almost always a long wait between trains.
He was joking, Mssr. Lafever. Why is it these 19th Century archtects are all bereft of a sense of humour?
11217, agreed! I can walk from Brooklyn Heights to Manhattan in under forty minutes (and that has come in handy during blackouts and other subway-stopping phenomena).
I take issue though with your posting of square foot costs.
While it is a reasonable measure in commercial leasing and cookie-cutter residential construction, it is very misleading when applied to brownstones. For one thing, a large amount of sq. footage is dedicated to hall and stair, it is very possible that a 1200 sq ft apartment or loft has more usable floor area than a 2000 sq. ft. brownstone. But more importantly, people buy old brownstones for their beauty and detail (at least most people) square footage costs are pretty meaningless especially as the top floor of say a five-story brownstone is pretty under-used in most cases. square footage values are used by realtors, my apologies if you are one, more to mislead than to inform.
Oh I believe it, Dave.
The other day I made it from 103rd Street and Broadway to Grand Army Plaza in 35 minutes.
And once I got from the 7th Avenue Q stop to 42nd Street in 23 minutes.
“A listing like this (5 floors) should have 20+ pictures. Mechanicals detail, etc. I’ll never understand $4+ million listings that don’t have more than a dozen well-lit & staged photos. Buyers at this price point want a full and complete presentation online. Actually, at the price point there should be a separate website for this house.”
I keep chuckling over this one. My thinking is that buyers at this price point are not wasting any time online looking at photos! More likely than not, the chosen brokerage is dealing with the prospective high end buyer via the buyer’s personal assistant(s), etc. At the point the prospective buyer gets directly involved, there’s no need to look at online photos to figure out if the house is a match. Instead, it’s on a list of 2 or 3 “A” list properties which have been thoroughly vetted by the “service class.”
At least that’s what I imagine. After all, this kind of listing — and the kind of people who will seriously entertain it — are far removed from my direct experience!
If Winston Churchill were smoking and drinking in that library he’d just ask for a bucket to pee in anyway. There’d be porters to take it away.