Open House Picks 10/16/09
Park Slope 44 Prospect Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-3:30 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 318 1st Street FSBO Sunday 12-2 $1,795,001 (was $2,300,000) GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 1692 11th Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 12-2 $1,295,000 GMAP P*Shark Red Hook 116 Pioneer Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $949,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
44 Prospect Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-3:30
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
318 1st Street
FSBO
Sunday 12-2
$1,795,001 (was $2,300,000)
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
1692 11th Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 12-2
$1,295,000
GMAP P*Shark
Red Hook
116 Pioneer Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$949,000
GMAP P*Shark
Agree that the Prospect Place house seems priced more like a four story than a three. But that parlor floor looks just beautiful in the pictures. (Notwithstanding* the pass-thru window to the kitchen which is NOT one of my semi-open kitchen preferences, for all of you who cannot get enough of my kitchen musings.) I’d like to see it.
(*Does anyone else thing that “notwithstanding” should be “withstanding”? This is one of the many expressions I’ve been confused by for a lifetime . . . )
JonB, you grew up in Red Hook?
Hooky,
I think you’re drinking too much Red Hook-ade! Pioneer St is okay, not the Sesame Street setting you report. Sandwich between section-8 housing to the north and NYCHA housing to the east, there area many quality life issues related to noises, loitering etc. Secondly, many of the garden floor apts on the block are illegal.
Just curious where all these nifty pioneer families send their kids to school cause they ain’t going to PS 15 where my kids go. The RH hipsters and bobos such neighborhood cheerleaders except when it comes to supporting the local public schools.
The Prospect Place house seems overpriced by $600K. This is three story house priced as a four story. The house looks to be in good condition and on a well located block. Because the stoop has been removed, it’s facade has been compromised. This can be fixed but will cost $40,000. The broker on this one is living in the past!
I saw the 1st Street house a while ago. What I remember about it is that while it was in very good condition, is small, and felt narrow. I thought the narrowness was because of built in bookcases and closet placement, not because actual width. The 3rd floor feels like a large master bedroom suite, but nevertheless a one bedroom.
Whoa. I said I hoped the TOTALLY open kitchen would go out of fashion. I don’t want to go back to oppressive completely separate not-to-be-seen-nor-heard galley kitchens hidden away in dark underground corners. I like a semi-open kitchen, or whatever I should call it, in many of the various ways that can be done. I just don’t care for when the kitchen feels like it is IN the living room, and the island seems plunked down like another piece of furniture. I don’t know; it just doesn’t feel right, maybe like spaghetti sauce is going to get on the couch or something. And psychologically, just too exposed.
Oh, also, I have no friends and cannot cook and talk at the same time, so.
But I shouldn’t really say I wish it’d go out of fashion. Brooklyn is probably big enough for open kitchens, half open kitchens, closed kitchens, no kitchens. “Brooklyn of ample hills . . . ”
Lack of stoop on Prospect house is a big negative to me. I don’t want to pay this much to have to enter my house through interior stairs. At least when you enter up the stoop it’s more elegant.
Like the WT place from the outside but agree overpriced. No one is gonna want it as a three-fam, so figure substantial work will be needed.
Park Slope prices coming down down down baby! No need to speak for the other hoods.
***Bill Thompson for Mayor***
Hooky, my husband and I have been going round and round on Red Hook and I’m curious to hear why you like it so much (I’m for it, in theory/husband opposed). Husband works in midtown and the commute is his main argument, especially in winter. But I think it looks neighborly and might be worth the aggravation.