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
Kanye West is interesting, he could afford it.
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?
Don’t assume just b/c they have money they won’t be fun. You never know.
I have Uba Tuba too Dave. Most people don’t notice it’s green and assume it’s black granite until the light shines on it. Then it’s pretty glorious with all the gold and blue green flecks. Love it!
“Younger people who get a large bonus will buy the $800,000 co-op in Brooklyn Heights”
I see very few young people in Brooklyn Heights and I really don’t think they are buying places like the COTD.
Rob,
Your precious Hanna Montana could afford this place. Is she not interesting?
I find Bjork and Matthew Barney quite interesting folks and they just plunked down 4 million to live in Brooklyn Heights.
Your comment is odd.
> well it’s sort of sad that houses like this go for the kind of money they do.
Yep, it’s a crying shame that a house that was originally designed to house wealthy people is doing the exact same thing more than a century later. That’s not interesting! That’s not fun!
I really disagree with those who think the same small group of people who could afford a three million dollar house last year can afford one this year. Hello? Last year prior to Sept. 12, when Lehman collapsed, it was a different scenario. I know GS is supposed to give large bonuses this year, but do you think those people are going to want to spend it right away on a huge money pit in Brooklyn? I’m not seeing it. Younger people who get a large bonus will buy the $800,000 co-op in Brooklyn Heights or the 1.4 million loft in Tribeca, more senior people already have their estates in Greenwich and Alpine, and they won’t be looking to downsize to Park Slope. I just don’t see this year’s crop of mega-wealthy park slope buyers.
Soapstone, I love soapstone counters. Not that you were asking me . . .
Rob, a person with money can’t be interesting? Huh? Where do you get that idea?
can an interesting person or interesting family afford this place? sadly, no.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at September 14, 2009 2:28 PM
I can’t figure out what to say to that.
I’d like to see what his chandelier looks like. If it’s not an original brass period piece than I’ve called him out. My LR and DR ones are both period brass gas/electric combos.
If it’s crystal, I can picture the rest of the house already!!!