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
The only problem with this house that is not fixable is that it is too far from any subway station. No matter how much money I had, I would not endure the frustration of driving in and out on Manhattan every day. I would want a quick subway ride for the convenience.
From my limited obscene & tacky experience in Brooklyn, that limits one to the A train if you are any further out than Brooklyn Heights.
Otherwise this is a great house.
DeLepp, the offensive ones are not the kitchen style sinks but when “an obscene & tacky” renovator installs two sinks, side-by-side in a bathroom. That, apparently, just should not be done.
shillstoner has no worries about this though as there’ll never be anyone using a bathroom sink next to him with that sort of demeanor.
He must be a very, very angry and lonely person sitting there in that basement dining room eating all alone!!!! The lack of light itself would drive one to depression.
How are double sinks surburban. My grandparents had them in their town house in the early 1900s in a Hoboken brownstone (pre surbanban times as far as I know)and my sister has an original kitchen with them.
Snark, I’ll come in “period” attire if you do.
The most upsetting part of this entire discussion is learning the Snark won’t be able to join us for drinks tonight.
“DIBS is a danger to the very integrity of mankind…”
And I’m sure there aren’t many members of womankind that would want to be married to you
shrillstoner…..how do you justify the central A/C vents??? Aren’t they as intrusive as recessed lighting???
I bet you don’t utilize the cast iron registers like I have. Tsk, tsk. Who’s a danger to mankind now??? ROTFLMMFAO
mopar….go back and read his posts and look at who called who tacky. Then reconsider the “ganging up.”
I think it’s unseemly for everyone to gang up on Shillstoner and rip him apart as a group because he called the current renovation trends tacky. You all spend plenty of the day making fun of various HOTDs and Mill Basin, so it’s not as if you’re above perceiving something as tacky.