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
“comfy in my central AC cooled home”
Central air conditioning? I was thinking shrillstoner has the house servant work the crank that turns the fan that pushes the air over the block of ice in the basement.Whale oil and coal are too new for someone so perfectly attuned to the period of the house.
Rob! I keep forgetting to tell you. Someone is having some kind of Hannah Montana art fest performance in Bushwick. See BushwickBK for more details.
PLUSAs, that is.
Thanks, Kens. That sounds fun, but a friend is visiting from Zurich, and tomorrow is the only chance I’ll get to see her. Send my regards to the PLUSAa!
Snarky, you kill me yet again. You should freakin’ come out to Willyburg tomorrow and hang with us!
> comfy in my central AC cooled home
Sounds awesome. Does yours use coal, or did you opt for one of the newfangled whale oil models?
> DIBS is a danger to the very integrity of mankind
You got that right. I hear he has weapons of mass seduction hidden in all of his houses.
Thanks for proving my point again, shrillstoner. No matching IQ- but a desperate need for a reality check. Obviously I’ve said enough that hits close to home or you wouldn’t be losing your – er- cool.
When someone like you feels the need to crow about their “refined sensibilities” and great taste, while putting everyone else down, it’s the result of poor self-esteem, aided and abetted by a lack of education, sensitivity and social skills. A great lack. But take heart- you have it over all of us in the Overblown Sense of Worth department.
At home now, hanging at the kitchen table, comfy in my central AC cooled home and safe in the knowledge that my house is pristine and lovely and free of any tacky suburban horrors like double sinks and granite counters, but slightly sad thinking of all the poor brownstones out there that have been defiled by people too stupid to realize what they’re doing…
“No shrilly- I came up with a lot more but you were too full of your own self-aggrandizement to comprehend it. Just goes to show- all your self-declared impeccable taste didn’t come with a matching IQ.”
Bitchy, please, you said nothing of any intelligence. DIBS is a danger to the very integrity of mankind, but he does on occasion say something worth responding to. Which is far more than one can say about your retorts.
A yard like that will never give your child lead poisoning. All of you back-to-nature gardening types seem to forget where you’re living.