Open House Picks
Park Slope 352 6th Street Harvey Heit Realty Sunday 12-1:30 $1,650,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 396 Vanderbilt Avenue Brooklyn Properties and Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-1:30 $1,395,000 was $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 580 Prospect Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,345,000 GMAP P*Shark Kensington 67 Chester Avenue Corcoran Sunday 12:30-2 $749,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
352 6th Street
Harvey Heit Realty
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,650,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
396 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn Properties and Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,395,000 was $1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
580 Prospect Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,345,000
GMAP P*Shark
Kensington
67 Chester Avenue
Corcoran
Sunday 12:30-2
$749,000
GMAP P*Shark
My question is what is 396 Vanderbilt going to do about that big illegal deck.
ProfRobert, that block of Vanderbilt is absolutely fine, and has some very pretty houses scattered around it. The only thing I would worry about is the traffic, which does indeed feed onto Fulton and then Atlantic, and has the B69 bus going by. (But since the B69 isn’t exactly frequent that probably isn’t much of a problem.) It’s a block that I have walked many times of day and night and never had a moment’s worry. Used to get my cat treated at the vet and the pharmacy on Van & Greene is great, very nice people. I was barely aware of the rehab center, totally not a factor.
All that said, I too went to see the place and Moneyfornothing is right on the money. The nicest thing I can say is that the broker is friendly and polite. Those site pictures are masterpieces, let me tell you, because the place is a mess–like they stripped the woodwork to signal “renovation in progress” and then called it a day. It also smells of dog from top to bottom. And I also agree that the most bizarre touch is the upper-floor bathroom, the only somewhat renovated room in the place, with a set of dials and knobs on the bathtub that resemble the cockpit of an airliner. The bedroom on the other side has a huge hole in the closet because, the broker told me, “they wanted access to the plumbing” for the bathroom.
It has some detail left and certainly some of the more enterprising, imaginative people here could probably make something beautiful of it, but it will take time and moneymoneymoney. If I were handy (which I am not) I might consider it for under a million, but right now all I can think is that the sellers live in an alternate universe.
MFN: Thanks for the heads up. You saved me a wasted trip on Sunday (not really looking to move, but always interested in what’s out there). I was on the verge of not checking out the open house anyway after I walked Vanderbilt the other evening from Lafayette to Fulton, and found it deserted. The house itself looked fine on the outside, but the teen rehab place down the block across the street gave me the willies. I really don’t want my son growing up in a place where he could be a target for junkie thugs. Ft. Greene is a nice neighborhood, and Clinton Hill has its good spots, but Vanderbilt is just a dead zone.
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It would be be wrong to make fun of that very nice video slideshow presentation of the Park Slope house, right?
Well, not to get all Europhile on you, but I’ve heard more than a couple non-Americans perplexed and skeeved out at the fact that we don’t generally have bidets here.
I’m curious about the painting in living room of that house. I wish I could see it better.
Did you guys notice the cute Kensington house has a bidet in the 1st floor bathroom for no apparent reason?
This has me perplexed and skeeved out at the same time.
Love the front of the house though, super cute.
so you guys consider being able to go get a fried snickers in your pajamas a MINUS? really?
Truth is, couldn’t tell
Is Vanderbilt so bad off
Big deck, will travel