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
Your Shillness,
You stayed in Brooklyn to avoid ensuite bathrooms and double sinks?
Seriously?
Two words: seek therapy.
Shrilly, baby, don’t you realize you’re preaching to the choir? We’re the people who LIKE the old brownstones and the original detail. Nobody here is into destroying the integrity of these beautiful structures. I can’t believe you can be so mortally offended by double sinks. It’s like being offended by refrigerators, or indoor plumbing, or lack of working dumbwaiters. I’m sure your friends in the burbs have driverways, right? And maybe even cars? Give me a break.
“Because of the bad econmoic times I’ve had to let go of the house help so the fire has gone out in the kitchen.”
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at August 19, 2009 5:41 PM
Bxgrl, how about we send our dead servants to DIBS abode? Keeping up appearances and all that..
“shillstoner, it has been fun. i hope we can resume this discussion here tomorrow morning, or on tomorrow’s HOTD. I’m sure there will be ghastly, obscene and tacky parts of that house as well.”
Chances are. As the tasteless masses like yourself bring their suburban lack of taste to Brooklyn more and more houses have been desecrated and defiled with hideous “comforts” like ensuite bathrooms, kitchen islands, and double sinks. Avoiding people like you is the very reason I stayed in Brooklyn rather than moving to the burbs. And now you’re here. Meanwhile my friends who have recently moved to the burbs all have gorgeous old homes that have been beautifully renovated without being defiled by such hideous things. Makes one wonder.
“And the Constitution “intended” for black men to be counted as 3/4 of a white man, and women not to be counted at all. Be careful, shrill one, that original intent argument can really go too far.”
Oh, please. That is too stupid to repond to. Whoops.
“Yes, shrilly- because you still live here.”
Really, bitchy, is all you can come up with?
“Oh what a sad fate has become my borough
Posted by: shillstoner at August 19, 2009 5:41 PM”
Yes, shrilly- because you still live here.
(trying, DH)
btw guys – this arguement is awesome – keep it up for another 10 minutes!
“We dine in the formal dining room, which is on the garden floor as the architect intended.”
And the Constitution “intended” for black men to be counted as 3/4 of a white man, and women not to be counted at all. Be careful, shrill one, that original intent argument can really go too far.
Snark – I think your ‘E’ Button is broken.