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
The only way I would spend 5 mil in BH (if I had it) would be for some serious harbor views.
Talking about the price, how long has it been since Gabriel Byrne’s house sold?
The most striking aspect of this listing is the hopeful quality one picks up from it.
I also love the artfully yet thoughtlessly tossed purple bunny on the ottoman and the yellow wooden toy car on the inches thick wool/silk beige carpeting in one of the rooms. “Oh LOOK! How quaint. One of the children just dropped two unnoticed toys right before the photographer got here. I can just SEE us in this 5+++ million dollar home, hun!”
What, pray tell, would one actually do with 8 working fireplaces?
Posted by: Pigeon at March 3, 2010 3:46 PM
Start big fires to roast pigeons nesting in the chimney!!!!
What, pray tell, would one actually do with 8 working fireplaces?
Yes, BR, the powder room could be positioned off of the rear parlour. Mine is 50′ so the front parlour is large enough for the living room sitting area and the dining table for 6.
And yes, a cosmetic restoration of plaster, floors, etc can be done without permits, as could the kitchens and baths if they don’t move plumbing…all of which would not come to an additional $1.0MM in reno costs..the facade probably did cost close to $100k.
The yard is probably not 25 feet, it is probably closer to 15 feet.
In my previous post, I made a mistake in my calculations, as antidope pointed out: I forgot to subtract 10 feet for the stoop.
lot depth; 92.5 ft
house depth; 68 ft
stoop depth; 10 feet (my estimate)
That would leave a yard of around 15 feet in depth.
DIBS — Don’t you have a 50′ deep house? The powder room could be off the kitchen (thus on the same floor) but still with some degree of privacy.
Also, does interior restoration work need permits if you aren’t moving walls or redo-ing the electrical?
I have been in this house and it is knock down fabulous. Strangely the photos do not give any sense of how truly spacious the home is, especially the double parlor pictures. BTW the kitchen is droolworthy even if its inexplicably missing.