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481 4th Street hit the market back in June with an asking price of $2,950,000. When it got the House of the Day treatment at the time, the pricing widget was not kind, producing an average price of $2,146,765. Giving it the 15 percent benefit of the doubt, this would have suggested that a buyer in the $2,400,000 would not be out of the question. The original asking price has been cut a couple of times, most recently to $2,650,000, so there’s only about 10 percent separating it from the realistic widget range.
481 4th Street [Betancourt] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 481 4th Street [Brownstoner]



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  1. Nice house, across the street from a giant public school, but you can’t have everything. The front door seems to open into a small vestibule. I think I see a bumpout in the photo. Houses with central lateral stairs did not have hallways but they usually had doors that would seal the parlor off from the stairs. That way one could heat the room and not have all the heat go up the staircase. WHen people blow out the doors and partitions and then complain that their heat escapes up to the top floor, they should realize that these houses were designed in a very green manner to be heated one room at a time.

  2. I think it looks very nice, with one big idiosyncratic caveat:

    Question for you historic house experts out there:
    Did these houses originally have the front door opening into the main room on the parlor floor? Or has an interior wall been taken out? Some seem to have hallways and some don’t.
    Either way I hate it and it creeps me out. Somehow makes the room seem much less comfortable when there is a door that opens onto the street in the corner.

  3. I hate the way it was hacked, missing walls, ugly kitchen, hi-gloss floors, sheetrock heaven, pine wood trims that should be painted have been stripped, etc.. I look at this place and 174 Clinton and think, when contractors go wild.

  4. would you like renovated 438 7th St? a 16 footer triplex over garden rental asking 1.95 that was abused here (too skinny, too expensive, market is collapsing…)?

    oops already in contract.

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