House of the Day: 182 Clinton Street
How the mighty have fallen. 180 Clinton Street hit the market in a fit of optimism in November 2007 with a price tag of $4,200,000. Despite the buoyant market, it failed to sell. Since then, it’s been delisted twice and had its asking price reduced twelve times. We’re not in love with a few of…
How the mighty have fallen. 180 Clinton Street hit the market in a fit of optimism in November 2007 with a price tag of $4,200,000. Despite the buoyant market, it failed to sell. Since then, it’s been delisted twice and had its asking price reduced twelve times. We’re not in love with a few of the renovation touches but, heck, it’s still a great house. Unfortunately, it was always one step behind a falling market; if only it could have gotten out in front a long time ago, it probably would have sold for much higher than its current asking price of $2,995,000.
182 Clinton Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 11/28/09 [Brownstoner]
Sometimes my right hand doesn’t know what my left hand is doing.
pierre de taille —
what’s the deal with the “we” in your comments? are there two people typing? are you referring to your left and right hands? as soon as i read we i skip the rest.
we strongly suggest you drop the pretext and change to first person singular.
Agree on the 70 feet lot – the backyard is probably half the size of a typical Heights brownstone yard, and only 30 feet deep. And because it’s 1 house in from the corner, it faces the side of a State St building and not another yard. Someone above wrote that it was like a “prison yard.”
But disagree about the 1 family. I think that’s a plus in the $3 million house market. “Even rich people don’t mind some rental income” – yes, but in someone else’s building, not their own house.
I seem to remember from the tour that it was the childhood home of Bill W’s wife and that maybe the couple lived here for a time and hosted early AA meetings here (or perhaps Oxford Group meetings?). Someone can google this I’m sure, but that’s my vague memory.
anyway I think I may just have found a buyer for this at 2.5. Lets see if there bid hits
Looking at the floorplan, it would appear that the price per SF is still relatively healthy at about $900 psf. Also, I think prospective buyers are somewhat dismayed by the fact that this house has a shallow lot of 70 feet plus is only a single family residency. Even rich people don’t mind some rental income and the house would need some reconfiguration work plus a lot of aggrevation from DOB to change the C of O to a 2-family.
menu from the Titanic, right. Keep an eye on the horizon while eating your crepes and caviar.
BTW, powder rooms in high-end residences are generally upstairs near the bedrooms which ladies can use to gossip in and adjust this and that, and where the sounds of gentlemen’s streams do not drown out the conversation in the parlor.
In the 1830’s during the height of my career, gentlemen guests used oriental vases to piss in, but I digress…..
p.s. I think it was the home of Bill Wilson, and was the host home to the first AA meetings.
Buyers haven’t heard of bjork moving close by