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
Oh what a sad fate has become my borough
DIBS – You know me so well. Nary a drop of liquor shall dampen these gym-buffed lips.
OK..I gotta run home and change. 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. I’m going to one of those newfangled places to eat dinner tonight, a restaurant. I just hope they have the mutton pie I’m so used to cooking in the fireplace.
It’s quite a trip out to Brooklyn from the City in the horse and buggy.
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.
yes, dave- I concur. Just because your cabinets are beautifully traditional and the entire kitchen is tastefully done, I would have refused- refused, I tell you!- to live in such a place. FYI- the lapis would have been so over the top and much more appropriate to the master bath. Of course you could then get those gold dolphin faucets! Have you thought of where you want to put the wall hung, ornate gold fireplace unit?
Also, I can’t imagine what types of hideous changes you did to update your Ditmas Park place.
Stainless steel appliances, granite, ahower stalls with thick glass???
These are all trappings of an obscene and tacky lifestyle. You will burn in hell for not only your hedonistic desires but what horrors you have come to wrought on blessed buildings.
shrillstoner- yes and when you sell, it is also quite possible the new homeowner will hate your renovation and do a gut rehab. You have no idea what dave’s house looks like or the work he’s done- you’re suffering from a bad case of know-it-allism and misplaced snobbery. Doesn’t work well for you.
Snark, I would have assumed that you were one of those shallow gym rats already; hanging out with the buffed “gym buds” and drinking nothing but water in the bar all night long and talking about American Idol. 🙂
Arkady, my kitchen was already on my parlour level so I knew I was screwed when I bought the house and that it was immediately unsellable from that point on.
I dickered and dickered and dickered because the countertops were granite and I knew no one would ever want them in the future. Uba Tuba is such a ghastly greenish black. I really wanted the lapis lazuri with the gold fixtures.
> my frequent cans shaking
Whoops, I meant cane. Though the cans are shaking lately too as well. Not to self: join gym.