House of the Day: 259 Henry Street
This listing at 259 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights just hit the market with an eye-popping asking price of $5,250,000. It’s clearly a sweet pad (great location, nice architecture), but that’s a lot of dough for a place that isn’t knocking our socks off. Maybe it’s some of the renovation or decoration choices or maybe…
This listing at 259 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights just hit the market with an eye-popping asking price of $5,250,000. It’s clearly a sweet pad (great location, nice architecture), but that’s a lot of dough for a place that isn’t knocking our socks off. Maybe it’s some of the renovation or decoration choices or maybe it’s the way it’s photographed, but it’s not the kind of classic show-stopper we’d expect for this amount of money in this market. Do you agree?
259 Henry Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Yes when did Gabriel Byrne sell his house, and didn’t he buy another in the same area?
You could get this same house in Cobbble Hill…for less than half the price.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 3, 2010 4:31 PM
Norah Jones bought 2/3rds of this same house. 4100 v. just under 6000, she got an 1843 Federal, this is an 1833 Federal. She paid 4.99M, pretty close to this list.
OK, celeb real estates = i-word. But what can you get for less than 2.625M in Cobble Hill? Nothing that would be within a country mile of this house.
Ha ha ha Dave, the song.
This house looks like it is owned by people who are into historic preservation. It is historically correct. At least the parts we can see.
TenaciousM,
Now that I think about it, that’s not the case where the home has a large front yard, like many homes in Carroll Gardens. Is it?
TenaciousM,
Thanks.
Good to know.
A minor point of clarification on stoop depth. The property’s lot lines (as measured by a surveyor’s meets and bounds) DO NOT include the stoop as well as the front yard. The 92.5′ runs from about a foot in front of the entrance door to the rear of yard.
Similar to a sidewalk in front of a property, the responsibility for maintenance still resides with the property owner although not techinically part of the “real estate”.
this place is fantastic. actually looks like the owners had a clue and tried to make a decorating imprint. it’s not so grandma-ish. victorian sh*t is not really that attractive. it’s dreary, old fashioned, and half the time seems cramped, dark and you get the feeling that there’s a dead aunt somewhere that someone lost.
this place actually manages to feel sophisticated and not like the people had just enough money for the 2 million dollar place but not enough for the decorator and the furnishings.
you know, lame oriental rug next to worse antique chair, etc…
Geez, I wish I’d read all these negative comments before I went and bought it. Now I feel like I overpaid.
denton, I agree. You could get this same house in Cobbble Hill closer to restaurants, etc on a street as nice as this for less than half the price….about an 8-10 minute walk between Cobble Hill & Henry St.