House of the Day: 591 2nd Street
We’re in love! This limestone house at 591 2nd Street in Park Slope appears to be perfect in just about every way. It has full-on original charm but has also been updated tastefully and thoroughly. For once, we even like the new kitchen! It’ll be pretty interesting to see whether such a perfectly appointed pad…
We’re in love! This limestone house at 591 2nd Street in Park Slope appears to be perfect in just about every way. It has full-on original charm but has also been updated tastefully and thoroughly. For once, we even like the new kitchen! It’ll be pretty interesting to see whether such a perfectly appointed pad can crack the $3 million mark. (In this case, the asking price is actually $3,200,000.) We’ll be surprised, but we don’t think it’ll miss by much.
591 2nd Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
shillstoner just PWNED himself.
All that ranting a few weeks ago about preserving the integrity of an original brownstone and you have poured concrete countertops and a modern chandelier.
” The point is not to keep things as they were 200 years ago”
It was you who was ranting about just that.
Besides, on a garden level, the chandelier can only drop about a foor or so from the ceiling before it becomes just too low.
A 1-2 foot drop does not a chandelier make.
I’m glad you keep up with the decorating tips from HGTV. ROTFLMMFAO. Although I might want Vern Yip in my bedroom I wouldn’t let him decorate my home.
11217, there are plenty of young people in Brooklyn Heights. What are you talking about?
DeLepp, love Gosford Park, and definitely downstairs over upstairs.
I don’t mind wealthy people as long as they have the good taste not to put enormous islands in the middle of their kitchen floors. It’s like, if you really want to “entertain” while you’re sauteeing, just get a portable table island.
“But I know what you mean, rob. Families are lovely and all but you can only surmise a young couple will move here and raise some kids, and those kids will sport Ramones T-shirts when they’re teens, and the mom will go to Connecticut Muffin and the dad will take car service to the airport for his business trip.
Modern life is s staid and quotidian, don’t you all rather think?”
I don’t know. The couple with small child across the street from me are similar to what you describe (minus the Ramones t-shirt) and I never felt judgmental enough to consider them staid. Every time I happen upon them, the husband (who is UNGODLY handsome) has his arm around his sexy wife’s waist, they are laughing while their little girl is smiling and running a few paces in front of them. I see them at the Greenmarket, I see them going for walks, going to dinner, packing up for vacations, entertaining lots in their lovely 4 story brownstone.
I’m not sure what exactly you want them to do that’s more interesting. When the wife is away, he sometimes smokes cigars with some of his buddys on the front stoop and asks to bum a cigarette from me from time to time. Is that interesting?
Sorry, had to do some work….
My chandelier is DWR, totally modern. I removed the original. The point is not to keep things as they were 200 years ago–the point is to update the house with a degree of respect and a modicum of taste. Hard to grasp for some, I know.
As for granite, even the yahoos on HGTV are over that tacky material. My counters are poured concrete.
Bjork as MILF.
I’d rather have wealthy boring people around then funny interesting poor people. The former tend to be better for property values and they can always rent their gardcen levels out to more interesting people like shillstoner.
As an anecdotal bellweather of the real estate market, I was speaking with the owner of one of the larger agencies in Provincetown last week. That place is totally discretionary second home for the most part.
He said that from October to May was completely dead, the worst markey he’s seen in all his years in the business but, since June the market has firmed up quite a bit and they have 12 properties under contract which is a lot for late Summer.
Just anecdotal.
“I find Bjork and Matthew Barney quite interesting folks and they just plunked down 4 million to live in Brooklyn Heights. ”
Totally off topic, sorry, but I saw Bjork this weekend at the BPC movie theater. She looked great and yes, she’s rich and very interesting.