Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. GRAVESEND $4,700,000 2117 East 3rd Street GMAP All we can gather from StreetEasy is that this house is 2,185 square feet. Entered into contract on 11/23/10; closed on 11/23/10; deed recorded on 12/6/2010. 2. MIDWOOD $1,500,000 1056 East 31st Street GMAP This is interesting… this house was listed for $865,000 in 2009 and got…
1. GRAVESEND $4,700,000
2117 East 3rd Street GMAP
All we can gather from StreetEasy is that this house is 2,185 square feet. Entered into contract on 11/23/10; closed on 11/23/10; deed recorded on 12/6/2010.
2. MIDWOOD $1,500,000
1056 East 31st Street GMAP
This is interesting… this house was listed for $865,000 in 2009 and got price cuts for the significant time it was on the market. (The lowest it got was $799,000.) So it’s kind of mind boggling the Victorian home sold for so much more. Entered into contract on 11/15/10; closed on 11/15/2010; deed recorded on 12/6/10.
3. GRAVESEND $1,731,025
2085 East 3rd Street GMAP
Again, all StreetEasy has for us is that this house is 1,292 square feet. Entered into contract on 11/23/2010; closed on 11/23/2010; deed recorded on 12/6/10.
4. PARK SLOPE $1,495,000
17 Park Place GMAP
Marketed two years ago for $1,895,000 and then came back with a couple price chops. From the listing: “This uniquely designed three-story North Slope brownstone breaks tradition with skylights, glass transoms and tranquil, cool tones.” It is set up as an owners duplex with a first floor rental. Entered into contract on 8/14/2010; closed on 11/16/2010; deed recorded on 12/6/10.
5. MANHATTAN BEACH $1,425,000
120 Dover Street GMAP
This wraps up a Biggest Sales list which was dominated by South Brooklyn. StreetEasy shows that this three-bedroom detached home was on the market for awhile, sticking to the ask price of $1,725,000. It’s a duplex with a full-sized basement and a private driveway. Entered into contract on 9/8/2010; closed on 11/30/10; deed recorded on 12/9/10.
Photos via PropertyShark.
$2250/sq ft to live in Gravesend? Why doesn’t the Syrian Jewish community just take over the West Village? It would be more cost-effective.
By 11217 on December 14, 2010 12:33 PM
I love the area of Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South. Now those are stately gorgeous homes set on pieces of land which are suitable for the size of the house.
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I don’t think this point is germane to discussing the Sy empire, but I totally agree with the sentiment. Love that area, and wish I would have discovered it before we bought.
There’s a difference between Victorian attached rowhomes and 6000 square foot homes built on lots which for many decades housed 2500 square foot homes.
I agree that it’s nice to see the variety and vision of each owner as you put it instead of tract housing, but honestly I guess those homes are just not my style.
I love the area of Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South. Now those are stately gorgeous homes set on pieces of land which are suitable for the size of the house.
Grand Pa, I think you mean the Fernando Valley of the East, where McMansions compete to fill their lots to the fullest in a materialistic display of wealth?
Beverly HIlls can be pretty tacky, especially the homes built by new money Iranians. As for Gravesend, I find the homes stately and impressive. I wish more housing in Brooklyn was of the same quality. You see homes that are the vision of the owner as opposed to a corner cutting developer.
As for large homes on small lots, please visit Park Slope some time.
Grand Pa, clinton ave is clinton hill
I don’t consider most of the homes in this area of Gravesend to be “gorgeous”
I find them too large for their lots, and in a very tacky suburban McMansion style for the most part.
Comparing that to Beverly Hills, where many properties are set on a beautiful piece of land with many of the homes designed by famous California architects to be not at all like the wealthy area of Gravesend where each ugly monstrosity is sitting on top of one another with windows looking right into your neighbors house 3 feet away.
Gravesend is the Beverly Hills of New York City. Gorgeous massive homes. It is to Brooklyn in the 21st Century what Clinton Avenue in Fort Greene was to Brooklyn in 1880s. Retail is lacking though as the high end area is only a few blocks.
It’s not just a nice synagogue; the community there is very conservative when it comes to social and religious rules, and if you want to be in, you have to live close, marry closer, and educate your children within.