Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 414 Henry Street Vespa Properties Sunday 2-4 $2,650,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood 750 East 21st Street FSBO Sat 1-6, Sun 1-6 $1,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 286 Clifton Place Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,285,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 119 Bainbridge Street Renken Realty Sat 3-5, Sun 3-5 $987,000 GMAP P*Shark Comment: No sign of a…
Cobble Hill
414 Henry Street
Vespa Properties
Sunday 2-4
$2,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood
750 East 21st Street
FSBO
Sat 1-6, Sun 1-6
$1,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
286 Clifton Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,285,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
119 Bainbridge Street
Renken Realty
Sat 3-5, Sun 3-5
$987,000
GMAP P*Shark
Comment: No sign of a post-Labor Day flood of quality properties. Leftover losers from the summer still dominating the mix.
i’ll say it again, this website is useless
haha 1970?
ok so 37 years later its worth millions.
sounds like he should have bought in the upper west side.
12:43 – There are no brownstones to be had in Brooklyn for 400K. Here’s what 400K gets you in Brooklyn: – http://www.fillmore.com/view_details.php?WebID=728007
Note the lovely plywood window treatments.
RE: 119 Bainbridge
Thanks for featuring my listing in the Open House pick feature. However, at the owner’s request, no open house until 9/16, 2-4. Private viewings are certainly welcomed before then. As for the FAR description, I have removed the lengthy description. (What was I thinking?)It did seem unnecessary. I have also updated the posting with the details (fire place, claw foot tub, stain glass windows, “built-ins” and sky light). As for the “postage stamp picture”, it will be replaced with a clearer shot of house and block. My apologies Brownstoners. Thanks Jimmy Legs and Guests. Agent Colette Henry.
Thanks for featuring my listing in the Open House pick feature. However, at the owner’s request, no open house until 9/15. Private viewings are certainly welcomed before then. As for the FAR description, I have removed the lengthy description. It did seem unnecessary. I have also updated the posting with the details (fire place, claw foot tub, stain glass windows, “built-ins” and sky light). As for the “postage stamp picture”, it will be replaced with a clearer shot of house and block. Thanks Jimmy Legs and Guest.
11:31 try looking in other parts of brooklyn, yes there plenty of houses for that price in other neighborhoods.
What the hell is the deal with the Bainbridge listing? The broker offhandedly writes that the house “has too many details to list” (yeah, if you’re such an amazingly lazy broker you can’t be bothered), and then goes into a lengthy tutorial on Floor Area Ratio–which isn’t particularly relevant given that the house has already *surpassed* it’s allowable buildable area. Sheesh!
And to think I was thisclose to buying a house on the same block for less than half the price! And that only 2.5 years later, I, too, a latecomer to the BK real estate market, could be telling this tale!
Well, 8:24, not everyone has $2 million for a house in Park Slope or some other upscale neighborhood. In fact most people don’t. Therefore, according to people like you, only gazillionaires should even consider ever buying a house in Brooklyn. Quite elitist of you.
See the film, THE LANDLORD by Hal Ashby. His first film. Hilariously, it’s about a man who buys a building in 1970 in what was considered then the “black ghetto” of PARK SLOPE, hello! The whole film is full of jokes about gentrification. Like in one scene, he’s standing there and something flies through the window. “What’s that?” “It’s a welcome present” says the realtor, “it’s voodoo dust”.
Here’s the synopsis from imdb:
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders “runs away” from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday’s urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind. He’s grown fond of the black tenants and particularly of Fanny, the wife of a black radical; he’s maybe fallen in love with Lanie, a mulatto girl; he’s lost interest in redecorating his home. Joyce, his mother has not relinquished this interest and in one of the film’s most hilarious sequences gives her Master Charge card to Marge, a black tenant and appoints her decorator.
The movie opens at Film Forum sometime soon. Check it out. Anyway back to topic, all those buying houses only in neighborhoods already at top-of-market are hmmmmm, maybe not the ones so wise with their investments!