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
Doubt it, Nomi. They were built cheap, and look it. The Victorians in PPS are stunning, for the most part, inside and out.
“EWWW! The Rugby Road house is a time capsule! Gross. I’ve seen it on her site for ages now, and no takers, and no price drop. If you can afford a $1M+ house, wouldn’t you want this one http://www.marykayg.com/html/0559.html instead??????”
Yes, I would.
But isn’t it interesting that the 1965 house is a “time capsule” but the 1910 house is a beautiful antique to be loved and preserved?
I bet there was a time in the 50s and 60s where the pre-war houses looked like “time capsules” to many people, old fashioned fussy grandma houses.
I like to think the 1910 house is more aesthetically pleasing, but I don’t know. Maybe if I live long enough, the 50s/60s/70s subdivision houses will look quaint?
I live across the street from the house on 15th street.
1) it’s not a terrible block, it’s not the best either.
2) I believe they were asking 1.4 for this place a year ago.
3) perhaps it’s one of those deals that if you add up the rent role, the numbers work at 1.2
4) not that hard to pull out a kitchen
5) back yard looks great
It is true and it is crazy. There was a huge public hearing PPS when the renovation of the house on Albemarle was first proposed. Many residents wanted an historicizing Victorian, but Landmarks refused. Their position was that the character of the mid-century house has to be maintained. If you are on Albemarle today, you will see the unfinished house (ask $900k) with the ugly picture window and bricking around the front door. Landmarks insisted they keep it.
Antiterrorist,
Your story is baffling.
Does Landmarks really require that 1960’s and 1970’s style homes, when they sit in historic districts, be preserved?
That’s hard to believe.
That would be crazy.
No doubt the seller is insisting on that price. Mary Kay is too shrewd to suggest such an outlandish price. Plus she generally low balls. Seller must be delusional. PPS was landmarked in the 70s and their are several late 60s early 70s horror shows in PPS, built on lots where houses either burned or just rotted. A few of those lots were annexed by neighboring houses and turned into fab double lots. A handful got the suburban split-level treatment (two on Albermarle, including the unsellable half reno, still asking $900…). Well, it was conceived of as the “suburbs in the city” by Dean Alvord. Killer – houses like this pre-date landmarks and now MUST be preserved as their current nightmarish states. This was a big problem with the unfinished reno house on Albemarle. Had to keep nasty picture window and ugly brick in the reno plans. Landmarks would not approve an historicizing “Victorian home” with a front porch, believe it or not!
“Imagine the basketball fans peeing on your doorstep after every game.”
Posted by: Lesloaf at January 22, 2010 4:16 PM
Will that scenario be Ratner’s legacy?
Will Atlantic Terminal become the Herald Square of Bkyn?
50k in detroit, tops.
Posted by: antidope at January 22, 2010 4:30 PM
Ha!!!!!! $5,000
Would you buy the PPS house knowing that every time someone came over for the first time they would be saying “eww, what’s that ugly suburban split-level doing on this gorgeous block?”
The broker needs to go to broker AA. $1.2M and everything needs to be redone. Sheesh!