House of the Day: 75 New York Avenue
This house at 75 New York Avenue in Crown Heights has been on and off the market for more than three years; this latest effort comes courtesy of Douglas Elliman. The house gets big points for its mansionly size, architectural detail and four-car garage; the broker gets a big “boo-hiss” from us for touting its…
This house at 75 New York Avenue in Crown Heights has been on and off the market for more than three years; this latest effort comes courtesy of Douglas Elliman. The house gets big points for its mansionly size, architectural detail and four-car garage; the broker gets a big “boo-hiss” from us for touting its non-Landmark tear-down potential to developers. The American Second Empire house sits on a 50-by-100-foot lot at the corner of New York Avenue and Pacific Street. Great stuff—let’s hope that someone who gives a crap steps up and buys it. The asking price is $1,425,000, a pretty penny in this part of town and seems rather unrealistic to us in this environment.
75 New York Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 73 New York Avenue (Revisited) [Brownstoner]
House of the Day: 73 New York Avenue [Brownstoner]
“Its curb appeal is greatly diminished by the absence of a cornice. To me, that is a sign the building has not been properly taken care of.”
Posted by: Minard Lafever at November 11, 2009 2:12 PM
This didn’t originally have a cornice, did it? It has a mansard roof. Mansard roof buildings don’t have cornices, do they?
Thanks MM.
Sad that it’s sitting to rot.
It boggles my mind when an owner lets a property deteriorate. I can only assume one thing.
Thank you MM, I was hoping you would chime in.
Elkins house is still vacant, ExTex, though not actively on the market. We, at the Crown Heights North Association, have been in contact with LPC about the growing deterioration of the property, and solutions are being looked into.
“There is a spiral staircase in one of the parlor rooms up to the 2nd floor”
Spiral Stair???? in the parlor room???
MM, what happened to the Elkin House on Dean? did it sell?
PS, I hate that they are pushing this as a development site, while extolling its charms as an historic home. Broker doesn’t know High Victorian detail from Art Deco, either.
The house is not vacant, the current owners, who have been there for about 20 years are on the ground floor and part of the second. There is a spiral staircase in one of the parlor rooms up to the 2nd floor. The space is further divided into 2 more apartments. I don’t think they will take 1.1MM for it, they have been in fantasyland for a long time.
While I think the current(and past)prices are ridiculous, this is a great house, with some fine details. Polemicist makes it sound like the gates of hell are located across the street, that is absurd. Directly across the street from the front door are 2 8 unit flats buildings. They are both quiet, working class, and decently well kept. In fact, one is having its fire escapes painted right now, and recently had all of the windows replaced. On the other side of Pacific, there is a 10 story senior citizen’s residence called Stuy Park, built in the 1970’s, which takes up the whole side of the block. These people are likely to go upside your head with a walker for daring to suggest that their building is something that should be considered a detriment to the community. It is safe and very quiet. Traffic is the noise offender here, if anything.
This isn’t a scenic block, and the bus stop is right outside the front door. There is a newly renovated 3 family next door, followed by a parking garage and an auto repair garage on the corner of Atlantic. This house should have been landmarked, as well as some of the rest of this block, but LPC skipped it, most likely because the center of the block has houses that have been vastly altered and mucked up. That said, with its proximity to the subway, the LIRR, banking, food shopping, etc, at the right price, and a lot of work, this would be a showstopper.
I can see this house from my steps, so I know what I’m talking about. Also, I have a photo of this house from 1942, and there was a porch across the entire front, with a balcony. It’s hard to tell from the picture, but the porch may have been enclosed with French Doors, or there are shutters on the lower windows. Either way, it looked much more complete then.
I *LOVE* the exterior of this place.
Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at November 11, 2009 1:28 PM
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well that’s good because DE’s not showing you anything else other than a staircase.
was out for 2m a couple years ago
cut into about six one bedrooms
G-normous property…..