Open House Picks
Park Slope 598 2nd Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-2:30 $3,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Brooklyn Heights 42 Willow Place Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Sunset Park 471 51st Street For Sale By Owner Saturday 1-3 $1,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 1561 Park Place Fillmore Sunday 1-4 $659,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
598 2nd Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-2:30
$3,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Brooklyn Heights
42 Willow Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Sunset Park
471 51st Street
For Sale By Owner
Saturday 1-3
$1,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
1561 Park Place
Fillmore
Sunday 1-4
$659,000
GMAP P*Shark
42 Willow Place sold for $1.85M in April 2007
The crown heights house is NOT in brownsville…it is in weeksville, crown heights and around the corner from the Weeksville Heritage Center one of brooklyn’s finest historic house museums.
Weeksville was the first free African-American community founded in 1838 by a man named James Weeks. The Weeksville Heritage Center owns three historic houses from the time period that are decorated in the styles of the 1860’s, 1900’s, 1930’s.
It is a fantastic place and a gem of Brooklyn.
To ‘m’ – Thanks for the reply on 51 Columbia Place. While reasonably priced for a 2-bed, I was put off by the floorplans only including vague measurements, and it only looks like 700 to 750 sq feet for the whole floor. So sick of shoddy construction as well, seems to be the rage in new construction in the Heights and BoCoCa. Saw apartments in Tiffany Tower (20 Tiffany Place) and 60 Tiffany and its the same thing – overpriced crap.
I checked out the 51 columbia place condos..very small for wht they are asking and I think the work was shoddy. LR will barely fit a couch and a tv, bedrooms barely a bed! another lick em and stick em greedy developer/owner.
regarding the “premium” for properties on the east side of 4th Avenue, I can only ask why on earth would you want to live less than a block from the Gowanus Expressway? Between 5th and 6th seems to me to be the ideal location, as even 4th Avenue isn’t exactly a strollable residential street.
Anyone care to estimate what the “between 4th ave and 5th ave” premium is these days over the “between 4th ave and 3rd ave” (considering the raised highway) in South Slope thru Sunset Park?
42 Willow is close to State St. not Joralemon end where subway tunnel runs.
Steel beams most probably used because – hey – these old houses sagged and steel beams keeps the floors level.
The armchair critiques know very little and almost see everything in negative light. Why they even live in Brooklyn I sometimes wonder – because everything is either too close or too far from something.
The problem with Willow Place isn’t BQE vibrations (though it is very close to the BQE). A friend lived on a building on Willow Place and whenever a subway would pass by his floors and appliances would rattle somewhat violently. This was true for every floor of the brownstone. I don’t know how effective steel beems are at preventing rattling but it should be a consideration…
That Sunset Park house is renovated to its bones, without losing what detail it had–and it’s very efficient. Simple (it’s done as rental now), but really nice. Totally move-in condition. And 3-story brownstones on slightly nicer blocks are going for $950, so an extra floor on a decent block, two blocks from the subway? I’d say it’s a deal.
I heart Sunset Park.