House of the Day: 226 11th Street
Here’s the first new house listing to hit the market this year: It’s a two-family clapboard at 226 11th Street in the South Slope. While not as grand as some of the houses to the north, the four-story property has plenty of detail and charm. The only hairy thing about it is that the first…
Here’s the first new house listing to hit the market this year: It’s a two-family clapboard at 226 11th Street in the South Slope. While not as grand as some of the houses to the north, the four-story property has plenty of detail and charm. The only hairy thing about it is that the first two floors are currently being used as a yoga studio and acupuncture office. The asking price is $1,279,000. Reactions?
226 11th Street [Betancourt] GMAP P*Shark
OK, I am thinking about what I don’t like and some of it is aesthetics — the pale walls and pickled floors seem to be ungrounded and insubstantial somehow, like you should be wearing a space suit — maybe that’s the yoga thing. So that is an aesthetic thing and then there is no detailing – molding in the rooms and lots of unadorned drywall (it’s in the hallway though – looks like original). The bathroom is awful. It reminds me of a NYC Department of Parks public swimming pool showers. But the clincher are the two metal poles supporting the ceiling downstairs in the kitchen, bolted to the floor. Jeez, can’t you do better than that? Hide them in some kind of built in? There is no nice detailing anywhere, meaning if this sort of thing means something to you, its do over time. But the front looks pretty.
11217, yes of course, that’s fine.
But I’m not about to start liking 1.2 million dollar houses on inferior blocks just to appear not snobby. This IS a real estate blog and that means that we are free to say that some things are terrific and some things suck.
great house on the best block in gowanus. 4 stories! great rental income potential. My guess: $1,150,000. Not a penny lower.
I really wish we could just truce, Minard. I don’t enjoy fighting with you in the least. I think we probably have a lot more in common than we have differences, and I oftentimes agree with you.
For one, we both love Brooklyn. Can’t we just go from there and not have so much hostility towards one another…?
Let’s make it our 2010 brownstoner resolution, shall we?
Okay sorry to be late to the party but here is our take:
The house is nothing to write home about although livable and that location is only okay at best while the price is massively excessive….
No dice here folks needs to be reduced to around $925K in our opinion.
11217, alright, maybe I’m wrong about you, but you do seem very defensive and strident, not to mention long-winded.
minard should check out the ‘fuses’ post in the forum. That’s what you get in BH. lol.
Minard:
Your name came up in one of the Open Threads about a month ago and about a dozen people said you were a snob. It certainly isn’t just me.
As for memory fading…it’s a part of life. I don’t find it mean. You really don’t know how to take a joke AT ALL.
Guess you’re going to need to learn to coexist with me here, cause I like expressing my opinions as well.
Maybe next time you don’t like an area you can think of a more mature way of stating it than “just plain awful.”
Still never heard your reasoning behind saying it was on top of the subway tracks when that is most certainly not correct.
And p.s. I guess you have forgotten the MANY awful things you have said to me over the course of our interactions which leads me to not get along with you. You blew that whole BH old person thing out of proportion…I merely stated at one point that BH probably as a slight older population than some other Brownstone neighborhoods and you proceeded to go off the deep end. It wasn’t a slight on BH as I’ve said many times that I love Brooklyn Heights. I just wouldn’t want to live there is all, as many people here express that they’d rather be burned at the stake than live in Park Slope. And I’m just fine with that.
p.p.s. Saying that you hope I don’t work with other people is as rude as you think I’m being to you, btw. I think the other people sitting in this office right now with me would be the first to tell you just how wrong you are.
I can’t afford it by any stretch of the imagination but I think it is a lovely house. Too bright? Not for me- there can’t be enough sunlight. Not fond of the bathroom- I need a clawfoot! But the area is a really interesting mix – I find those areas of old houses mixed in with industrial buildings fascinating.
Granted, Minard, if you love historic, neighborhoods this area wouldn’t hold much appeal to you. But to each his own 🙂