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]
I can get from Stuyvesant Ave to 34th Street in 25 minutes. I kid you not.
On the parlour level powder room issue…I’d have one there for when I’m there alone drinking Armagnac in the library and need to drain the vein but if there were guests, I’d probably agree that its best they use a different floor and that “closet” would remain locked.
Certainly a parlour powder room is ONLY used for #1 and NEVER for #2 anyway.
Considering how frail many prime ministers are I hope who ever buys this place hires “carriers” so that drunks and the fralies don’t fall down and crumple at the bottom of the stairs after rich meals and buckets of wine.
Whoever buys this place will be exceptional people with exceptional lives…
Minard:
#1. I was being sarcastic, thus the smiley face. Clearly South Slope is not more expensive than Brooklyn Heights. Just because I happen to prefer PS doesn’t mean that I don’t get BH’s prestige. I may be a PS shill, but I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. (That one was for all the BH seniors out there) 🙂
#2. Someone said that it takes them 40-45 minutes to get to their midtown office from Brooklyn Heights and I merely said that it takes me the same time to get from my home in Park Slope to my office on the UWS.
Not sure what the hell the person in BH is doing wrong that it takes them 40 minutes to get to midtown, but considering that many people say a big selling point of BH is its proximity to Manhattan, I don’t know why Tyburg can get from Ditmas Park to Midtown quicker than said person…
11217 is a bubbling fontain of information today. Not only is Park Slope more expensive than Brooklyn Heights but it has also recently overtaken that neighborhood in its proximity to Manhattan.
That’s why I put the smiley face. 🙂
But I meant what I said about the parlor floor. In a more typical brownstone, the parlor is the most used floor for living, but in this one, it’s the floor below that and having a totally open parlor level here for entertaining seems best to have left out the bathroom.
11217, you are instigating now.
11217, love the parlor flr bathrm post. hehehe