House of the Day: 180 Washington Park
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re…
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re certainly digging the location, size and type of the house. There’s also tons of original detail that is right up our alley. The renovation, though, feels too over-the-top to us. Call us old-fashioned, but the glitziness and polish of the whole thing feels a little out of place for Fort Greene. And that yard? What were they thinking? We suspect the sellers would have been better served by a more understated approach, especially when it comes to reselling in these non-boom times.
180 Washington Park [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I think the house is to die for. Beautiful. I can’t believe stoner wrote that it is too luxurious for Fort Greene. I wonder what that means. Are buyers of multi-million dollar Fort Greene brownstones just plain homespun workin’ folk?
YAY, more porn!
5,000 SF of nipple-hardening square feet for today’s urban nuclear family.
That yard is straight out of Mill Basin. I love it. 😛
WOW, moreteasir, we haven’t seen you in some time. I missed our arguements though I can’t remember what any of them were about. 🙂
Buggin’ Out: Who told you to step on my sneakers, who told you to walk on my side of the block, who told you to be in my neighborhood?
Clifton: I own this brownstone.
Buggin’ Out: Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.
-Do Th Right Thing (1989)
Yards are meant to be grass.
does anyone else think this house is too big for a one family? rooms are oversized, two per floor for the kids, one for the parents. and the garden was a mistake, although it prob doesn’t get enough sun, therefore the hardscape choice.
builders: how did they manage to remove the load bearing partition wall on the upper three floors (front) to create spectacular width rooms? expensive, no?
It’s “classy.”
The yard is a bit much, I agree. I’m not sure what they were thinking with that “stone castle look” to the firplace and crown moldings in the living room.
The tub in the middle of the bthroom is a bit ostentateous, yes. But HELLO, it’s one of the few houses that really understands ensuite master bedroom & bathroom.
The kitchen may not be to everyone’s taste but I think it looks fantastic.
All this place needs is a return of the parlour floor crown & fireplace details and about $15,000 (at most) of yard work.