Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 54 Cheever Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-1:30 $1,800,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 206 Maple Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1:30-3 $1,325,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 314 89th Street Jabour Realty Sunday 1-3 $795,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 268 Van Buren Street Corley RE Sunday 12:30-2:30 $529,000 GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
54 Cheever Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,800,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
206 Maple Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1:30-3
$1,325,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
314 89th Street
Jabour Realty
Sunday 1-3
$795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
268 Van Buren Street
Corley RE
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$529,000
GMAP P*Shark
Stonergut,
Thanks for the feedback regarding restoring the long parlor windows back to their original size. I love those long windows of a bygone era.
“CGar, buy the house, boot the 2 tenants, rent to me.”
I’ve been waiting for that m4l, lol.
CGar, buy the house, boot the 2 tenants, rent to me.
I vote for Cheever Place. Love to convert it to a one family (my family) rip out the carpets, polish the boards, a little paint, little kitchen bathroom update, I’m there, I’m smiling 🙂
Wasder,
My friend lived just down the street from the Cheever Place home (she lived on Kane) and she conplained constantly about the time it took to walk to the subway. So, your google map assessment seems accurate.
Pigeon, we “restored such windows to their original glory” in the front of the house on the parlor floor but have held off on the back because of the fire-escape. In front, we did the opening as part of the brownstone facade refacing, keeping the brick fill and shortened windows in for a while – which looked crappy but it was obviously “in progress”. Later we followed up with the windows. Not including the the facade involvement, the demo of the brick fill and old short windows was pretty simple. But if you need to do further repair or refacing, it could get complicated and expensive. Windows of that size are costly too..
In back we have a fire-escape we want to keep, and it’s bottom platform lines up with the sill of the shortened windows. We’ve considered just making the non fire-escape window into a wood framed door and leaving it that way (one high, one low), pending further work or a future deck. But for now we have short windows in back, long ones in front and it looks fine.
Wasder, I LOVE Sidney Place! One of my all-time favorite blocks, and part of my current daily commute to/from Borough Hall. But, sadly, I can’t afford a $4 million house on Sidney Place, lol, whereas I can afford a house on Cheever Place, provided I’m willing to put up with a longer walk to the train.
Pigeon, I’ve been watching them restore windows like that in a number of houses lately (2 on Amity, 1 on Pacific that are currently being gutted), and it doesn’t look like it’s a big deal at all, and the restored full size windows look great.
Cgar–I used to live on Sidney Place in the Heights way back in the day so I know the charm of those blocks. Even though I have a car, for me access to public transport is crucial and that looks like a hike to me on the google map…
Feral and Wasder,
Yes the Cheever place is a long trek to the subway.
For the right buyer, though (someone looking for a 3 family and who likes the walk, or who likes to drive) it seems like it’s priced right. It’s a beautiful block in a great neighborhood.