House of the Day: 100 Albany Avenue
This brownstone at 100 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights could use some touching up, but the new listing has some pretty nice bones to work with. The two-family house is only three stories though. Asking price: $559,000. What do you think? 100 Albany Avenue [Realty Collective] GMAP P*Shark
This brownstone at 100 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights could use some touching up, but the new listing has some pretty nice bones to work with. The two-family house is only three stories though. Asking price: $559,000. What do you think?
100 Albany Avenue [Realty Collective] GMAP P*Shark
It’s not just the spindle work – the tin ceilings upstairs are in amazing condition, and the plaster details are great. The basement has brick archways – it’s really a neat house. The floors are the pine subflooring, so you won’t find any herringbone and parquet, but the fireplaces are intact. We’re having an open house on Sunday from 11:30 to 1pm – come check it out (You don’t have to buy it, we’ll be there anyway…)
Tina Fallon
Realty Collective
The Fresh Direct box is so distracting, I nearly bypass the content every time…
“Am I the only one? I’ve never been a fan of all that spindle work.” (BrooklynGreen)
Not the only one. I think it’s impressive, and even beautiful in isolation, but I find it somehow slightly depressing the way it is used.
Sweet little house in an absolutely shitty location, those projects are the worst, and that’s only part of the problem. And I LOVE the spindle work. Shame about the location.
Apparently there’s been a run on houses that I’ve checked out this week. I can’t really add anything to the discussion of spindle work and kitchens, but the location is a big problem. I don’t know what would need to happen to bring development to this part of crown heights, but as far as I’m concerned my search ends before Albany.
I’m curious, what locations in places like Crown Heights & Bed Stuy does everyone like? (I ask b/c I was thinking about buying a condo or co-op in Carroll Gardens or Cobble Hill, but the idea of a whole house for under $600,000 is amazing, of course.)
I am not a major fan of spindle work either, but that is quite intricate and pretty. The facade looks in good shape as do the floors, but I don’t know enough about the location to determine if the price is good.
Love the spindle work. The fact that it survived is a minor miracle. Pigeon, if you buy a house with this stuff in it and you don’t want it, let me know.
Sad about the location. Having to look at the science fiction-like Fortress of Fugliness that is Interfaith, would be worse than the LIRR. I live near enough to the same train to hear it every once in a while, and it just becomes background noise. The hospital endures until some rich benefactor with taste buys them a new building. Oh, blessed day!
BrooklynGreene,
That spindle work makes a very strong statement!
It’s lovely, although I, too, would rather live without it.
What would one do if a non-lover of spindle work were to buy a home with beautiful old spindle work in it?