House of the Day: 108 72nd Street
This bay front brick house at 108 72nd Street is a charmer. The Bay Ridge pad has lots of original architectural detail along with modernized kitchen and bathrooms (which are perfectly tasteful but not eye-popping). The house also sits on a beautiful block and only half a block from Owl’s Head Park. The asking price…
This bay front brick house at 108 72nd Street is a charmer. The Bay Ridge pad has lots of original architectural detail along with modernized kitchen and bathrooms (which are perfectly tasteful but not eye-popping). The house also sits on a beautiful block and only half a block from Owl’s Head Park. The asking price is $779,000, which sounds reasonable to us. What do the Bay Ridgers in the crowd make of it?
108 72nd Street [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP P*Shark
benson, your only shot is if somehow wife wants a backyard. other than that, you’re toast with that move idea
I only found parking difficult late at night in that area of Bay Ridge. All other times I felt like I mainly got a spot on my block pretty close to the house I was living in. If you trying to park anywhere off of 5th on the other hand, that is much harder to park around there it seems.
M4L;
I’ve thrown almost everything I have into the debate, but she’s not budging. Still working on it…..
Can’t stand long narrow living rooms with a window at the short end.
Benson, what’s the “sweetner” you’re offering to the wife? Am in same boat with my wife. I can afford to buy a house in bay ridge now vs. the eternal wait with brownstone BK.
Sorry I’m slow on the uptake, but I have become really enamored of that nabe as I walk my dog along the water there. I park near the pier on 69th St. and then zig zag my way back through the streets when I’m done on the water. There are some really impressively huge homes around there (the gingerbread house is not that far), but even the basic housing stock has always really struck me as quaint and charming. I would actually consider a move at times if I thought I could get used to the commute… I mean I’m not living in the best commuter nabe already…
I live 3 blocks south of here. It is a really great area, as mentioned. Northern part of Bay Ridge is more “diverse” in that there is a good mix of Middle Eastern / Asian / Greeks amongst your typical Italian and Irish. It is more middle class as well. Central Bay Ridge (80’s) is more of the stately detached single family with driveways n yards and less diverse. 3rd and 5th are thriving – very little vacant storefront. Parking is darn tough because everyone drives here. Yes, on rare occasions you get the treatment plant smell. Maybe once or twice every 3 months. And it’s not isolated to Owl’s Head Park area…the *entire* area is usually affected. Owl’s Head isn’t that nice, but Shore Road Park is immaculately mantained. As for the commute – it’s long, but not unbearable. You do get used to it. Now that they eliminated the M train, N,D express trains wait around for the R connection; so getting into midtown is actually faster IMO. For me, the pro’s of living in Bay Ridge outweigh the con’s. It has a Park Slope feel without all the pretension and yuppiness. Here’s hoping that doesn’t change any time soon.
I currently live in Park Slope but would move to Bay Ridge in a heartbeat if I could convince my wife. In addition to all the attributes discussed above, it has a better mix of the old and new Brooklynites.
bay ridge is great value for the $$$ – good retail, schools, diversity, housing stock, safe. the train ride is a pain though. but hey, not bad for not paying $2M