House of the Day: 121 Clarkson Avenue
This house at 121 Clarkson Avenue in PLG that just hit the market looks relatively modest from the outside but the interior photos reveal a nicely laid-out space with lots of original charm. The location is a bit south of the best blocks in the neighborhood, but that’s reflected in the asking price of $585,000….
This house at 121 Clarkson Avenue in PLG that just hit the market looks relatively modest from the outside but the interior photos reveal a nicely laid-out space with lots of original charm. The location is a bit south of the best blocks in the neighborhood, but that’s reflected in the asking price of $585,000. You like?
121 Clarkson Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
this house is adorable!! the kitchen could use some updating, and we haven’t seen the bathrooms. a much better deal than the house a few blocks away that just sold for nearly $1M. but, again, the neighborhood is pretty much off the map. no good grocery store, no restaurants within walking distance besides take-out places, no good schools – just flatbush ave.
Very nice house. Are those bars on the windows, though? Is that really necessary?
Yes, 125′ deep is really something wonderful. My former house was 16.5′ with 125′ lot.
It can be either like a bowling alley or a secret garden.
I remember when I fell in love with the house it had more to do with the outside than the inside. It was a feeling of owning land in the city! (What a great feeling to sit way in the back of the yard, at night…almost could pretend I wan’t in the city.)
Plus somewhere in the listing it alludes to a garage. Almost sounds like a win-win.
The picture seems to show a pass thru side-alley, which is GREAT for moving stuff in and doing work on or in the house. Just a real asset.
Congrats to whomever gets it!
This is what’s great about PLG – so many more original details remain in the houses here. This is what it would look like in many craftsmen era freestanding house elsewhere further out in Brooklyn if those other houses didn’t rip everything out in the 70’s & 80’s. It’s really worth going to look whenever these are for sale in PLG even just for fun. Brownstoner is right, you’d never know how much detail was inside by the plain, craftsmen exterior.
But Kelly, it’s in a 125′ deep lot–lots of outdoor space–only crowded in the cold months.
Bedford IS frequently bumper to bumper going south, during the evening rush hour, as far south as Church Avenue. It can also be heavy southbound on Saturdays, during the day. Traffic is relatively light at other hours. It also seems to be much lighter (at least in PLG) going northbound. I’ve never figured out why. Where do those cars go? I’d like to think that the world ends somewhere south of the PLG border and they fall off, but I keep hearing about this new “round earth” theory 🙂
It’s not a big house – it’s only 16.5′ wide.
It’s staged well, has good photography and an inviting, honest description.
Just warning you though…16.5 is not big.
Think of it as petite. Human scale.
(I just hate it when things get really big in one’s imagination and then
lets you down in real life.)
this is just a few doors down from that amazing, mysterious “berserk eclecticism” house at 111 Clarkson : http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/07/111_clarkson.php
I am so moving to PLG when I buy. I love this listing from what I’ve seen.