Open House Picks
Park Slope 36 Montgomery Place Warren Lewis Sunday 1-2:30 $3,700,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 338 4th Street Brooklyn Properties Saturday 11:30-1 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Victorian Flatbush 1306 Albemarle Road Corcoran Saturday 11:30-1 $1,895,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 691 Monroe Street Abacus Properties Sunday 1-2:30 $580,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
36 Montgomery Place
Warren Lewis
Sunday 1-2:30
$3,700,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
338 4th Street
Brooklyn Properties
Saturday 11:30-1
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Victorian Flatbush
1306 Albemarle Road
Corcoran
Saturday 11:30-1
$1,895,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
691 Monroe Street
Abacus Properties
Sunday 1-2:30
$580,000
GMAP P*Shark
Thanks, Sam. Aren’t they all, though?
I deplore the kitchen in the butler’s pantry. That was a poor choice. But plenty of room to install the Taj Mahal in the basement, I’m sure.
Does it have 100 amp electrical service? Are you saying they need to upgrade to 220?
mopar, starting w the mechanicals, I would say that it needs new electrical service and wiring, new heating system and furnace, central air, major plumbing re-dos as well as layout upgrades to make the house more functional. The parlor floor needs a real house-sized kitchen and a half bath, there is plenty of space for both.
Structurally it appeared sound.
There is no cellar, so part of the garden level is taken up with mechanicals but there is still enough room for a small guest or staff apartment. The facade needs some work too.
The house is a major money pit but a beautiful one. It would be a great project for someone who likes to do over historic houses. But the asking price is absurd.
Sam, what do you mean “needs everything done”? Just baths and kitchens, or do you mean the foundation, electical, plumbing, floors, walls, and roof also need work?
Just saw the Monroe place. Has most of the original details, including woodwork, walls, and doors. Finished cellar. One unit was made into three by inserting baths and kitchens in the center of each floor (where the front parlor meets the back parlor). It wasn’t immediately clear to me if the original layout was three or two rooms deep — probably two large rooms, maybe with a very small closet system inbetween. It’s pretty good size, but undoing all that mess and putting in something that work for us is just way more work than we want to contemplate. Plus the walk felt like a mile from the subway. Nice block though.
saw Montgomery Place. Huge house. perfect for a large family. needs everything done, the kitchen looks like an efficency kitchen, no central air, A good update would cost anywhere between 750,000 and a million dollars and would take about a year. Bid 2.6.
Yes, I meant with their “ten year old pre-teen” brother. And of course I was being sarcastic. Very. I think that Park Slope is a nice place but when VF is just a stop or two on the train away from it, the choice for me is obvious.
Architerror, overall, I am a big Brooklyn “booster” but I am a defender of VF. When someone erroneously slams the neighborhood, I will come to its defense but will do the same for any Brooklyn hood except maybe Mill Basin. I am Brooklyn born and bred. All of Brooklyn is my hometown. I await the day that the Dodgers come home even though I was too young to remember them ever being here.
Also went to Albemarle and though it has some fantastic wood built-ins and misc. details, to me the house felt tired, and needs alot TLC, and very deep pockets. I think the owners moved out and parts of the house seemed kind of dirty, certainly not as grand as the photos appeared.
There’s a reason there’s no kitchen or bathroom pics.
The electric’s old and might need replacing, ditto for plumbing throughout. There are 70 old windows and it’s landmarked, you do the math. The yard is small with not a lot of privacy. Part of the ground floor used to be a doctors’ office and those rooms were just plain yucky.
Would this house find a buyer at 2.5 – 2.9mil. if it were totally updated? That’s probably what it would take to break even.
Just went and saw the Albemarle. Needs a ton of work. 1.3 bid.
I just reread Chaka’s post. She (he?) wrote “with their ten pre-teen brother,” which I figured was supposed to be “ten-year-old” pre-teen brother (which was weird enough). But if I’d realized it was supposed to be TEN pre-teen BROTHERS, I think even I would have gotten it. Ahem.
Yes, Chaka is a big VF booster…