Open House Picks
South Slope 189 15th Street Corcoran Sunday 3:15-4:15 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Park South 180 Rugby Road Mary Kay Gallagher Sunday 1-3 $1,200,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 52 6th Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4 $940,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 605 Jefferson Avenue Bergen Basin Realty Sunday 12-2 $699,000 GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
189 15th Street
Corcoran
Sunday 3:15-4:15
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Park South
180 Rugby Road
Mary Kay Gallagher
Sunday 1-3
$1,200,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
52 6th Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$940,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
605 Jefferson Avenue
Bergen Basin Realty
Sunday 12-2
$699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Howdy all! I saw someone mention that they though their were existing leins on the PH house. Where can you find that information? Thanks!
I think you’re on to something, traditionalmod.
70s isn’t long ago enough to be retro.
So maybe Architerrorist the answer is to knock this split-level down and move the so-called too-small Oenoke Ridge house to PPS! If it’s true Landmarks would approve of good mid-century design to replace this one.
I know what your saying, since we have a place on the New Canaan border… Those Harvard school/Philip Johnson houses are spectacular. It would probably horrify you to learn that several owners have tried to get permission to demolish or renovate these homes recently, because they’re too small. One house, on Oenoke Ridge, is at particular risk. Only 2000 sq ft, the owner wants to build a 6000 sq ft faux English cottage at the back of the property and demolish the modernist house. If she can’t do that, she’ll agree to use it as a pool house. She can’t get permission at the moment to built the new house or demolish the modernist house, so it’s been sitting on the market up in CT for a few years now.
If only a few of those homes at been built on the empty lots. But by 1965, the money or desire to build at that level just wasn’t in Flatbush anymore. It was in the ‘burbs. So people with lighter pockets chose to build what they could afford – Levittown in PPS.
As far as landmarks goes, if someone wanted to build a Philip Johnson quality home in PPS, they would almost certainly get permission. A well designed historicing Victorian – no dice, apparantly. Landmarks people are purist and don’t like historicizing. On the bright side – a Fedder’s brick nightmare – fuggedaboudit.
“there are several late 60s early 70s horror shows in PPS, built on lots where houses either burned or just rotted.”
So when residents upstate and in Connecticut were hiring major architects to design stunning mid-century modern masterpieces in that same era, residents of PPS built cheapo things like this. Really shows where Brooklyn was at economically in the 60’s. These split-levels are ubiquitous in the more working/middle class towns on Long Island. Some friends of ours who have to be out there for their jobs bought one of the split-levels and gut renovated it and made it really nice. Still they’re not to everyone’s taste, certainly not readers of Brownstoner. Can you imagine if PPS instead of these split-levels had the mid-century housing stock of New Canaan, CT sitting amongst the Victorians? Those blocks would be a tourist site it would be so cool.
No, I think you get a clean slate if the house is completely destroyed, as long as Landmarks decides they like it. Basically they won’t let you build a piece of cheap crap, but you could get away with some fantastic modernist design. I think they want it to be of the same architectural merit… although others with experience in say, Brooklyn Heights, where this has happened will know more. But they would probably say no to Historicizing Victorian… don’t like historicizing structures.
Both SS and PH home look like gut candidates. I’d love to take a crack at the 15th St. place, but only if the starting price was 800k. Really interesting facade.
Something tells me the PH place is no bargain, and a close look at the photos (sloppy paint is a dead giveaway) only hints at what horrors probably lie within.
CGar & Pigeon, I don’t know how bad of shape the 6th Ave house is in, I just know to take a good look into the pretty photos. I do real estate photography and obviously I get paid to make a house look good. This means NOT shooting anything nasty and concentrating only on the selling points. A well lit, staged photo can make any house look good and draw people in.
What I see in these photos, like you said, are floors that don’t look to be salvageable, a sagging staircase and major plaster work. Probably not a complete gut, but close.
I’m usually not one to poo-poo a house, but I’m only bringing it up because people were questioning why it’s priced so low.
On the other hand, it’s probably the location.