House of the Day: 1418 Pacific Street
Will somebody please put this listing out of its misery and buy it! The brownstone at 1418 Pacific Street in Crown Heights has been on the market for more than three years by our calculations. It was an Open House Pick in April 2007 when it was asking $999,999. The price now is down to…
Will somebody please put this listing out of its misery and buy it! The brownstone at 1418 Pacific Street in Crown Heights has been on the market for more than three years by our calculations. It was an Open House Pick in April 2007 when it was asking $999,999. The price now is down to $700,000, which has to be getting close to the market-clearing number given the amount of original architectural detail and the proximity to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. What’s it gonna take?
1418 Pacific Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Maly, I’m in love with 1350 after only seeing a picture of the front! I need to take a closer look. I’ll try and check it out this weekend.
Guess what, BSD, the people in the projects can walk, drive or subway wherever they want. One’s approximation to those buildings is hardly an indicator of safety or non-safety. The people in the projects could care less about who is buying a house on Pacific Street.
Sometimes people act as if the entire population of the projects is just waiting for newcomers like a bunch of sharks circling the poor unsuspecting sucker in the water. A more accurate analogy would be a huge ocean of fish, all going about their business, mostly ignoring each other.
The Albany projects would not be a consideration for most people, unless one is so paranoid about being within the same neighborhood of a project that the mere mention sends them shaking. In that case, most of brownstone Brooklyn, except for the most expensive neighborhoods, and even some of them, is out of the question.
Rob, someone got killed in park slope near you. don’t see you moving out of there. crap happens – even in premo Central Park Manhattan. Crown Heights North aint as nice as park slope but it certainly aint bad as you paint it.
btw, I’m calling bullsh*t on you being in Crown Heights North before
m4l, if your contract specifies “broom swept” then if there is anything left anywhere in the house upon final walk through you can hold money back in escrow.
If this house is delivered vacant, unlike others, you have half of your overall problems licked.
Ishtar, if you are ready to buy and not afraid of renovations, check 1350 pacific. It’s a 3-family a block west. The house has a gorgeous porch and nice extra-tall windows on the parlor floor. Only $425K! (but check that it’s delivered vacant.)
If the house is indeed in that bad shape, then it’s up to the broker to guide the seller into cleaning it up. And if there is no working kitchen at all, no bank will finance it today, but a bare-bones kitchen can be added pretty cheaply. It’s a shame that the seller doesn’t seem to understand that some elbow grease and a few hundred dollars can equal tens of thousands in selling price.
ishtar, what are you complaining about? those “projects” comments help you as they filter out some competiting bids
I’ll fight you for that stove, ishtar!!
Reading my comments over, it came out a bit harsh. Good things about the house: nice details, big south-facing yard, not far from Children’s museum and the subway/LIRR (well for the LIRR, that one goes on both pros and cons), nice houses on each side, landmarked district.