Residential Sales in Brooklyn
BEVERLY SQUARE WEST $985,000 271 STRATFORD ROAD GMAP 6-bedroom, 1-bath, 98-year-old colonial; front porch, gas fireplace in dining room, leaded-glass windows, parquet floors, original detail, 1-car garage, 50-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $3,824; listed at $975,000, 20 weeks on market, multiple bids. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher. MIDWOOD $301,000 1155 Ocean Avenue GMAP 2-bedroom, 1-bath, 1,038-sq.-ft. co-op in…
BEVERLY SQUARE WEST $985,000
271 STRATFORD ROAD GMAP
6-bedroom, 1-bath, 98-year-old colonial; front porch, gas fireplace in dining room, leaded-glass windows, parquet floors, original detail, 1-car garage, 50-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $3,824; listed at $975,000, 20 weeks on market, multiple bids. Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher.
MIDWOOD $301,000
1155 Ocean Avenue GMAP
2-bedroom, 1-bath, 1,038-sq.-ft. co-op in a postwar building; renovated and windowed eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors; laundry in building; maintenance $603, 49% tax deductible; listed at $305,000, 21 weeks on market. Broker: The Developers Group.
WILLIAMSBURG $670,000
22 Judge Street GMAP
3-bedroom, 1-bath, prewar, 2-story wood-sided house; dining room, renovated kitchen and bath, original tin ceilings and wide-plank pine floors, antique slate patio, full basement; 16-by-64-ft. lot; taxes $1,650; listed at $695,000, 1 week on market. Broker: Kline Realty.
First item from the New York Times, Residential Sales Around the Region; others from last Thursday’s Residential Sales in the Times.
Photo of 271 Stratford by Kate Leonova for Property Shark.
“I have been in plenty of homes where the master bedroom is more substantial than any original brownstown configuration I’ve ever known.”
There you go race-baiting again.
Also, it is completely innacurate to say that Flatbush homes originally only had one bathroom. There is almost always (an original) full bathroom on the second and third floors.
It is true that the first floors generally lacked powder rooms. Personally, I have been in over one hundred homes in Victorian Flatbush, and I have never seen one that did not already have a powder room already installed on the first floor. Usually it’s a former butler’s pantry, sometimes a former walk in closet.
If you want a master suite, then you are looking at sacrificing a bedroom. Sometimes it makes sense to knock to small bedrooms together to make a master suite. However, I have been in plenty of homes where the master bedroom is more substantial than any original brownstown configuration I’ve ever known.
There are a few Queens nabes and Staten Island enclaves that have a similar feel to Victorian Flatbush. Personally, I love them all and it makes me physically ill to see developers swoop in and destroy them… Oh, is that you by any chance 12:54? I doubt it, but you never know.
This house is not particularly distinctive, architechturally speaking, but to tar the whole Victorian Flatbush neighborhood, is just misinformed. There are several Victorian Flatbush websites out there, with plenty of photos, that would seriously challenge 12:54’s claims. There is very little gingerbread in Flatbush because it is not “high Victorian.” Much of it is Colonial Revival (Ditmas Park proper), and transitional (Victorian meets arts and crafts). Queen Annes are actually the exception. Prospect Park South is another animal altogether. But there are equally arechitectural impressive homes on what were once “showcase” streets, such as Bedford in South Midwood, Ocean Avenue in Ditmas Proper, Albemarle, or course in PPS, and Avenue H in Fiske Terrace. That Tudor on Avenue H is one hell of a house.
BTW, this house needed complete gut reno, had limited original detail, and no kitchen… That’s why it sold for under a million. Houses with more interesting architecture, loads of detail and recent renos sell for a whole lot more.
This house is not particularly distinctive, architechturally speaking, but to tar the whole Victorian Flatbush neighborhood, is just misinformed. There are several Victorian Flatbush websites out there, with plenty of photos, that would seriously challenge 12:54’s claims. There is very little gingerbread in Flatbush because it is not “high Victorian.” Much of it is Colonial Revival (Ditmas Park proper), and transitional (Victorian meets arts and crafts). Queen Annes are actually the exception. Prospect Park South is another animal altogether. But there are equally arechitectural impressive homes on what were once “showcase” streets, such as Bedford in South Midwood, Ocean Avenue in Ditmas Proper, Albemarle, or course in PPS, and Avenue H in Fiske Terrace. That Tudor on Avenue H is one hell of a house.
BTW, this house needed complete gut reno, had limited original detail, and no kitchen… That’s why it sold for under a million. Houses with more interesting architecture, loads of detail and recent renos sell for a whole lot more.
I agree with 12:55 about the subway line. I mean, who wants to have breathing room at rush hour? People in Carroll Gardens know their neighborhood is cool, because they get to wait for two packed F trains to go by before they can squeeze on.
Another value killer is a completely inadequate subway line.
I think it just depends on how familiar you are with Victorian architecture. I used to live in a stunning Queen Anne house with super high ceilings, huge tall doors and giant windows, carved gingerbread details on the exterior and interior both. So I’m less easily impressed I guess! I think the best examples of Victorian woodframe and brick houses in New York are upstate along the Hudson Valley. NYC doesn’t have much that’s all that special. The best Victorian houses in NYC are the brownstones, not woodframe. Whether in prime Brooklyn and Manhattan neighborhoods.
I’m shocked that they were even able to unload that Victorian–I mean, it has a driveway and a garage, two major value killers!
I totally disagree with 12:07…I find Ditmas to be a beautiful area and a real change from the standard NYC neighborhoods. Many of those houses are truly stunning. For me, the hood’ really stands out…and, no, I don’t live there (yet?).