House of the Day: 171 State Street
Very nice indeed! 171 State Street just hit the market and it’s a beauty. The center-stair brownstone in Brooklyn Heights has mucho original charm—fireplaces, pier mirrors, parquet out the wazoo. Given the charm factor and the location, the asking price of $2,895,000 sounds reasonable to us. Thoughts? 171 State Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Very nice indeed! 171 State Street just hit the market and it’s a beauty. The center-stair brownstone in Brooklyn Heights has mucho original charm—fireplaces, pier mirrors, parquet out the wazoo. Given the charm factor and the location, the asking price of $2,895,000 sounds reasonable to us. Thoughts?
171 State Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Anyone who’s been by this theatre on a weekend evening knows it’s effing noisy. Come on. And it’s noisier than other theatres cause it attracts a lot of TEENAGERS. (I am proud to be a reverse ageist.)
11217 I think you are taking this blog in a very negative direction. Just today you attacked me and Rob in a really weird aggressive and horrid manner. You are a sick puupy smoking pot all day and blogging from your parents’ house.
Try to get a life for ourself and stop the pontification.
I like intheshorts’ story about almost buying this house in 1995 for around $350,000.
And he has a good point concerning the vehicular traffic creating movie theater congestion more on Schermerhorn than on State.
And he has a good point concerning the ugliness of theater building.
And whoever buys this house will probably have to walk past this movie theater building — and past the crowds in front of the movie theater — every day. In fact, it will be one of the first things they see when they exit their new 2.8 million dollar house. Not a terrible thing. But a thing that you move to Brooklyn Heights to avoid: crowds and ugliness.
Know what’s really ironic? The people on State and Schermerhorn (the other side of the Ratner monstrosity cinema/B&N actually fought a potential supermarket (ohhh — the big bad delivery trucks!) to get this instead! As a former neighbor told me, most of them are in their country/beach homes on the weekends so have no concept of the crowds that the cinema gets!
The crowds from the theater mostly stick on Court as others have noted. Most people don’t go down State without a reason. There’s much more of a problem on Schermerhorn where all the people try and park when they come to the theater. Since Clinton forces you to the left at the end of the block, State is much quieter. The theater itself is an imposing building so it creates a buffer from Court. As to it burning down, I doubt it. Modern curtain wall construction doesn’t burn. Stuff inside can but the building is basically fireproof. I do have visions of the theater failing as they have all around the country and then watching it get imploded as there is no alternative use for the space. Has to be one of the ugliest buildings in America.
JESUS F*&ING CHRIST, all he meant was that it was noisy, as most cinemas are, when they let out. Do you really want to live next to one??? I think not many people do.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at October 1, 2009 4:20 PM
I would!!!!!!!!!
but only after the price reflects it. being right next to the theater loses a good chunk of the bragging factor of living in BH. just imagine the convo:
where do you live? I live in BH. Where? on state. I’m right next to the cinemamamama ahhhhhhh
One word for the direction in which Minard took this thread…
ASININE.
P.S. I’d hope there would be a discount for a house which abuts the Pavilion Movie Theater also.
Just so you don’t think I’m being unfairly biased against BH.
11217’s statement certainly had the feel of a “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” to it, hence the response from a few on the board.
I’d give him the benefit of the doubt, though.
If this is more than 2-3 houses in from Court, I would guess the Movie Theater will have little impact in and of itself.