Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 338 Clinton Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1:30-3 $2,700,000 Price Cut! GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 136 Lafayette Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12-2 $2,350,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 258 13th Street Heights Berkeley Sunday 12-2 $1,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Clinton Hill 15 Irving Place R. J. Chappell Realty Sunday 12-2 $939,000 GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
338 Clinton Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1:30-3
$2,700,000 Price Cut!
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
136 Lafayette Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12-2
$2,350,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
258 13th Street
Heights Berkeley
Sunday 12-2
$1,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Clinton Hill
15 Irving Place
R. J. Chappell Realty
Sunday 12-2
$939,000
GMAP P*Shark
the threads have been on topic, in fact.
your post further enhances the reason why it would make more sense to me to spend 2.7 million on a place in park slope…with better schools, better transportation and better services, you’d be rather nuts to spend that kindof money in clinton hill….no matter how nice the woodwork.
all of these discussions are pertinent to the houses at hand.
btw, i believe brownstones are worth what they get based on the sheer beauty of the architecture and relative scarcity. saying you’re paying a million more for a good school is your opinion. you could pay 5 million more, live in a similar house in manhattan and have an even crappier school….
I visited 15 Irving Place today during the open house. I think the asking price is WAY HIGH in light of the SERIOUS PROBLEM the structure poses, especially the north wall abutting the new condo building, which, by appearance, trespasses the property line. Neither the broker nor the owner pointed out the basin that has resulted, but then it’s not easy to see on a first passthrough: You can see it if you look through the side window by the kitchen on the first floor. The overbuilding by the condo developer has created a three-story well; water (such as the flood we had last month that knocked out the subways) has nowhere to go but into the basement wall at 15 Irving Place. Remedy here is not simple: it will involve suing the developer, who is known to be a real bastard. Time, money, emotion and lots of each, most likely. I had to ask to go into the basement. There is black mold on the north wall and mold on the floor; the boiler is busted, as well. The broker was unable to say what the C of O is for 15 Irving. I would say that’s another big deal…and the sanitation hazard next door is of years’ standing, so what control would a new owner have, if the owner at 15 Irving, who’s lived on the block for 20 years, has been unable to bring the City to shut it down and/or force a sale? The house has plenty of potential, but it will take probably $300-400,000 to bring it out–and who knows how many months’or years’ fighting the nasty developer on the one side, and the City on the other (and within 15 Irving). You do the math: Clearly neither the owner nor his broker have.
It would be nice if these threads would stick to the houses being discussed.
Regarding 338 Clinton Avenue: I just returned from the open house. It is a complete and total mess inside. Except for the nice wood detailing on the parlor level and some on the 2nd floor, including a beautiful mantle, it is a total wreck. Very dark inside, and it’s been chopped up into many apartments. There was no electricity on the garden level, so it has to be viewed in the dark. It needs a TOTAL and absolute gut renovation, and then some. Small and dark yard. I’d say 1 million minimum to get it in livable shape, not even high end. I can’t believe this house is being sold as is for 2.7. Total insanity.
I’ll take a “bad” public school in Brooklyn over a good one in suburbia any day. Those schools in the burbs may have nice facilities, but they produce drones. Growing up in NYC is an education all its own.
What is funny when it comes to talking about schools is people scrambling to get into the 3 of 4 “good” public schools in the slope or vicinity, but the fact is on a 1st world nation basis the schools are crap.
They are overcrowded, have to make do with aging facilities and tiny harsh playgrounds and hit-and-miss teaching staff, where are the swimming pools and playing fields? where are the advanced computer labs and science buildings and amazing school excursions?
Even new jersey, which is nothing much compared to schools in many parts of europe or australia, has FAR better schools.
So convince yourselves that $2.5m brownstone is worth the extra $1m for the “good school” if you like… The real reason you’re sticking with the slope or boerum hill is for your own entertainment, not for your kids education …
13th street will be worth about $200k once AY gets built.
everyone said the same thing about s. elliot for 3.7 million last week and that looks sold…
people like park slope a lot. maybe they’ll take 1.5 and call it a day.
$1.7ml for 13th St. 4/5th is a joke. Again, how is this a “pick”?
Good advice!