Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. FORT GREENE $2,800,000 180 Washington Park GMAP A House of the Day back in August, the 22-foot brownstone was owned by Spike Lee in the ’90s and hit the market with a price tag of $2,750,000. The new owner is British painter Chris Ofili, whom you might remember as the guy who offended Rudy…
1. FORT GREENE $2,800,000
180 Washington Park GMAP
A House of the Day back in August, the 22-foot brownstone was owned by Spike Lee in the ’90s and hit the market with a price tag of $2,750,000. The new owner is British painter Chris Ofili, whom you might remember as the guy who offended Rudy Giuliani in 1999 when his Holy Virgin Mary” exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum. The NYT In Transit blog describes the controversial painting as “a black Madonna that included a clump of elephant dung and a background of pornographic images from magazines.” Entered into contract on 11/10/09; closed on 1/14/10; deed recorded on 2/17/10.
2. PARK SLOPE $1,800,000
540 4th Street GMAP
When this limestone row house—filled with original details and located on a park block—was House of the Day back in November, it was listed for $2,000,000. Entered into contract on 1/23/10; closed on 2/8/10; deed recorded on 2/16/10.
3. GRAVESEND $1,800,000
2022 West Street GMAP
According to Prop Shark, this is a 5,670 square-foot 1-family house. Entered into contract on 8/6/09; closed on 2/12/10; deed recorded on 2/19/10.
4. WILLIAMSBURG $1,562,500
156 Bedford Avenue GMAP
This 3-unit building with retail space on the first floor was once home to the Print Shop, which closed in March ’09. It was listed for $1,850,000 on February 4, according to StreetEasy. But according to the deed, it entered into contract on 2/1/09; closed on 2/1/10; deed recorded on 2/19/10.
5. BOERUM HILL $1,400,000
295 Pacific Street GMAP
This four-story, 2,744 square-foot home was House of the Day when it hit the market in January ’09 with a price tag of $1,899,000 — and was named HOTD again in October ’09 when it returned to the market priced at $1,595,000. Entered into contract on 12/15/09; closed on 2/9/10; deed recorded on 2/16/10.
Photo from Property Shark.
btw, 4th st was all cash deal, which generally get ppty sold below a comparable offer with mortgage.
pacific st was a push, m4l. right down the middle of our non-bet bet.
BrooklynGreene–those sales may have been before my time on brownstoner. But yes, my nanny has joined the brigade (in Clinton Hill) and the neighborhood becomes more and more a place where people with kids are happy to move to. This is the only point I was making. The Fort Greene/Clinton Hill naysayers just annoy me that’s all. and yes, bring on more artists to the neighborhood.
If 295 Pacific got $1.4 million then yesterday’s HOD on Dean Street will get close to their ask.
Wasder,
If I interpreted your comment correctly, you may not have known or don’t remember that L’s house on the park sold for $3m and J’s house on S. Portland sold for slightly over $3m. I believe both were featured on Brownstoner.
The nanny brigade is out in full force most days in Fort Greene nowadays. It is starting to remind of another place I lived as a youth and eventually fled. Granted, it quite different. I wouldn’t move back to Manhattan unless you paid me. 🙂
This lovely house looks like it had a huge, fancy renovation so I wonder if they’ll want to do any work on it right now. My experience is that most people want to make changes when they buy a house even if the place really doesn’t seem to need anything. Of course, if you have needs like a workshop/studio then I guess there can be work to do.
And even if the house doesn’t get “work done”, by the time the whole thing is furnished and decorated, it costs a small extra fortune.
My goodness, those YBAs! Wish we had bought one of his paintings when we first looked. Personally, I’m thrilled we have another artist in Fort Greene! Yeah!
Speaking of the Catholic Church and vampires, has anybody else noticed how much the current pope resembles Nosferatu?
Legion, agree…
The Catholic Church as one of the oldest institutions left standing provides a tremendous service with several thousand years of images for those imagination-free vampire “artists” who are able to rally a few washed-up, exhausted adolescents still looking for some authority, any authority to bash.
Ok, that’s my rant for the day.
Got to go visit a client.
Chris Ofili is doing pretty well. There’s a retrospective of his work at the Tate in London right now.
The retrospective of Chris Ofili’s paintings now filling several galleries at Tate Britain is exactly what you might expect – opulent, glittery, dazzling, gorgeous. If you have seen even one of his works you can probably extrapolate the massed effects of 60 more.
in fact i agree w the haters that we the taxpayers have funded the monumental profits that the banks have turned as traders (and leveragers) of ust risk only have *earned*.
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it’s ‘dislikers’, not ‘haters’.
“best save in baseball history”
What was saved? The economy? Ha! The same was thought in the early 30’s. Obama is FDR all over again!
There’s a limit to deficit spending, antidope. We’ve reached it. Where do you think money comes from? It comes from more debt. Deflationary spiral is my call. These bonuses are not sustainable, mathematically nor politically (Scott Brown, Joe Stack, etc.).
***Bid half off peak comps***