House of the Day: 540 4th Street
We’re digging all the original details in this new listing at 540 4th Street. The Park Slope limestone has plenty of old-school cred but it’s gonna need to get some serious lovin’ from its next owner, a fact the listing cops to. We’re not so sure we agree that at $2,000,000, though, that it is…
We’re digging all the original details in this new listing at 540 4th Street. The Park Slope limestone has plenty of old-school cred but it’s gonna need to get some serious lovin’ from its next owner, a fact the listing cops to. We’re not so sure we agree that at $2,000,000, though, that it is “priced accordingly” (as the listing also claims). The house is on a park block, but it’s only about 2,500 square feet. Thoughts?
540 4th Street [Orrichio Anderson] GMAP P*Shark
Nomi, I’m half joking. However, am currently suffering the slings and arrows of bathrooms and kitchens untouched since the 1890s. Every time we fix one leak, we spring another.
“I was kind of hoping the kitchen was untouched since the 1870s.” (mopar)
You make me laugh. I mean, I know you’re serious, but you still make me laugh.
“Nomi,
It is not that it is a small house. It is plenty big for a family, its just that it is not big compared to the 3600-4000 sq/ft places we have seen in this price range.” (Brokerdeveloper)
Right, but someone (too lazy to scroll up) was describing it as good size for empty nesters with visitor or . . . a couple with maybe one child or something? That’s what I wasn’t getting. Maybe that was only that one person, and the rest were making your point. (Like I said, too lazy to scroll up, but not to write way more words than I’d need to if I did just scroll up . .. .) Anyway, there is ample room here for a family with three children with each getting their own room.
I was kind of hoping the kitchen was untouched since the 1870s.
Moneyfornothing – the love is coming from the fact that the little old lady owner still lives in the place, so its inhabitable, at least by my standards.
Some of the postings here make it seem that a house w/ a kitchen untouched since the early 1970’s, shitty carpeting over scuffed original wood floors and old but functioning electrical w/ old schooled ungrounded wall outlets and shitty windows (basically the house my wife and i bought 9yrs ago) is a house that needs to be completely gut renovated before they set a foot in the door.
I understand those who argue that for 1MM to 2MM a house should be perfect, and I agree in principle, but those days are long gone. Good size house in prime PS, half a block from the park – that’s gonna cost ya.
Nomi,
It is not that it is a small house. It is plenty big for a family, its just that it is not big compared to the 3600-4000 sq/ft places we have seen in this price range.
Also not getting why people are saying this is a small house. It’s got 4 good sized bedrooms plus that little small extra room, a large living room, a formal dinning room, a big enough kitchen, and huge storage room. Not addressing price per foot, just the idea that this is a “small” house. That doesn’t make sense to me.
MFN — PShousehunter (3:33) was in this house.
MFN maybe you should take to path train from Joisey and come see for yourself.