Open House Picks
Boerum Hill 394 Pacific Street Nancy McKiernan Sunday 12:30-2:30 $1,825,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 520 East 23rd Street Warren Lewis Sunday 1-3 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 547 Argyle Road Urban Living Int’l Sunday 11-12 $999,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts 185 Ocean Avenue also on Planet PLG Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $889,000 GMAP P*Shark…
Boerum Hill
394 Pacific Street
Nancy McKiernan
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$1,825,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
520 East 23rd Street
Warren Lewis
Sunday 1-3
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
547 Argyle Road
Urban Living Int’l
Sunday 11-12
$999,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts
185 Ocean Avenue also on Planet PLG
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$889,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
834 Putnam Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$735,000
GMAP P*Shark
Lot Size (4360) X FAR (3.44) = Buildable Square Feet (15,000).
By the way, Brownstoner, the troll is co-opting my identity again.
can someone post the formula for FAR to sq ft for a newbie…thanks
The max FAR is 3.44. This means the lot is zoned for 15,000 sq. ft. building.
Here’s what I know:
While I DO know the owner of 185 Ocean, I don’t know him very well and have never been in his home. IMO the house is a very good deal at the asking price. I happen to prefer the limestones, but I think they’d be a LOT pricier if they ever came on the market (houses on this stretch of Ocean seldom do).
The large apartment building next door (#163) is IMO the nicest co-op on that stretch of Ocean. I know someone who lives there and was at a PLG Arts meeting at their apartment a few weeks ago. It’s a VERY nice building.
I have good friends who live in one of the limestones on Ocean. We’ve been in their house many times and haven’t been bothered by the subway. That being said, I’m sure it would take some getting used to, especially at night, but I doubt that it would take long. FWIW I grew up in a building in Forest Hills Queens, off Austin Street, where the LIRR runs. That train noise never bothered me.
Someone asked about FAR. It’s a real PITA that you can’t look that up for free on Property Shark anymore. I happened to look up one of the limestones on Ocean several weeks ago. Those houses have a lot of unused FAR and, I imagine, that the same applies to # 185. This worries me. The houses on Ocean are not landmarked. I’ve been trying to prod people into working on that BEFORE there’s a crisis.
Several years ago, when doing the house tour brochure write-up for one of the limestones on Ocean, the owner told me that she was often visited by racoons, from Prospect Park. If you don’t like wildlife, this house might not be for you.
Oh, one word to our dear t**l, the Lefferts Hotel is MILES from PLG.
Putnam Ave house really looks great. I remember that block being very pretty, and quiet. People who live over that way know better than I do, but isn’t this the block that has all of the really great wrought iron fences and railings?
Anyway, price seems really fair for this day and age and the location. Nice detail still there, and even if it needs a bit of work, looks like you could easily live in it in comfort.
Since any recommendation I might give is a kiss of death, what can I say.
(I might have overreacted to the many comments about the apt building next to the Ocean Ave house, but seemed like a great house was being unfairly dissed, trollage aside. I’m so used to not seeing out of the side of my building that I didn’t even notice that there might even be windows on that side. My bad.)
NewStoner, I couldn’t agree more. Enough posts about the troll-they are getting old and overwhelming the topic related info.
On another note, has anyone seen the Pacific Street house before or know the block well? I don’t recall seeing it listed before, so I’m assuming that it’s new to the market?
I did look at another house the same realtor has on Pacific (the one for just under $2 million. I think they have a third one for $2.15). The guy showing it that day said that they had an offer on the house and were showing it one last day before they accepted the offer. This was at least three weeks ago, so it looks like either the offer fell through or they ended up not accepting it.
26 midwood is narrower than 42, lower and less deep lot as well if i recall correctly. hi bob – that was me in post #2. still on the fence re plg, but nice to see that 68 midwood got big money. that house is amazing, inside and out.
always thought this stretch was kensington
drug dealers are great to have around. once you befriend them, they’ll make sure you’re taken care of.
i wish i had more of them on my block.