House of the Day: 564 Henry Street
This brownstone listing at 564 Henry Street in Carroll Gardens has its work cut out for it, especially with a price tag of $2,300,000. If the sellers, who’ve owned the four-story house for 35 years, had just left it alone it would probably be having more luck than it is now, but let’s just say…
This brownstone listing at 564 Henry Street in Carroll Gardens has its work cut out for it, especially with a price tag of $2,300,000. If the sellers, who’ve owned the four-story house for 35 years, had just left it alone it would probably be having more luck than it is now, but let’s just say that some of the interior design decisions they made are probably working against it.
564 Henry Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
actually, i took the parking comment to be compared to an apt in a building with a garage, not a house. i’ve lived in several manhattan and brooklyn neighborhoods and always had a car. think wanting a garage/parking spot is a reasonable request. also, most couples with kids i know have a car whether they live in manhattan or brooklyn.
Bumper badger?? I hardly even know ‘er!!
No, Sebb, I know… I realize that the price tags in this town are absurd. And I really shouldn’t be surprised about anything. 2 years ago, this place could have been a boarded up shell and someone would have bought it for $2.3 million in a heartbeat.
tybur6: not sure if you realize but there are many homes selling for close to 2 mill In this area that are being converted to condos, or 1 family homes. So there is potential.
car ownership rates are lowest in the Bronx. more money-more chance you own car.
> You can spend $12M on a TH in the West Village (or $6M in
> Brooklyn Heights) and you ain’t getting a parking spot.
You’d be surprised at how many townhouses in Brooklyn Heights have attached garages, parking in rear/side yards or empty lots next door used as parking. Not to mention the Remsen Street house (that sold much closer to your West Village pricing, IIRC) that came with an adjoining-lot garage/carriage house on Grace Court Alley.
Dave, saying that Brooklyn Heights is really a part of Manhattan is not an original thought on my part.
The public transportation options there are unlike anywhere else in the Boro.
That said most families have cars even in the Heights (gotta get to the weekend house and Fairway you know). There are lots of garages in the Cadman Plaza Towers and in Downtown that Heights residents use. There are also a number of newer apartment buildings with parking. street parking in the Heights is a nightmare.
> Anyone know the provenance of that second staircase and the mezzazine?
A friend of mine used to live on Third Place, and his apartment also had a weird mezzanine thing.
IME most folks in Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill don’t have cars, either.
We do, but when we parked on the street we moved it 15 times a month and used it once or twice. Garages seem kind of silly IMO, so we put it in a small lot around the corner. It cost only a few dollars more than the parking tickets we used to rack up, so pretty much a wash.