Open House Picks: On The Cheap Side
Park Slope 380 6th Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3:30 $1,450,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 124 Clifton Place Corcoran Sunday 1:30-3 $885,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 641 74th Street Fillmore Saturday 12-2 $795,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 439 Bainbridge Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $749,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
380 6th Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3:30
$1,450,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
124 Clifton Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3
$885,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
641 74th Street
Fillmore
Saturday 12-2
$795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
439 Bainbridge Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$749,000
GMAP P*Shark
I agree with West, who wrote: “icky”–while a totally naive & frankly dumb (so much so that I thought it was sarcastic) thing to say on this site–is still better than softball-sized bullet holes or what have you…”
We’ve had so much gratuitous badmouthing of my nabe (and others) in the not so distant path that “icky” has a sort of innocent charm 🙂
Why are people still discussing the PS house. If it is 16′ feet it is obviously not a great deal.
I totally hear you, Linus. The other one that I looked at was a triplex with a single rental. I agree with you about the reno but in this case I think the price differential is partly the 2 bedroom duplex issue and partly that it just doesn’t look as nice as the other ones on the market. Houses on that part of 6th Ave. are pretty narrow ( I think someone said that this one was 16ft) and not too deep so most of them are either single-family or triplexes because it’s not too easy to carve these up into three-family homes.
And you’re absolutely right. This might be a great place for a young couple just looking to get into the market or someone with just one child. It all depends on what you want.
i saw the clifton place house last week. not bad–wider than a normal brownstone, and with a finished basement that could be made accessable from the top two floors. nice feel to the place, but there’s a bizarre backyard situation–next door lot has l-shaped yard that takes up all but about 8 feet of the garden. that was a deal-breaker for me. better than a condo, though, in that price range.
west — since you’re on the market, you’d know, but those others were also 4-stories of roughly the same size, right? Were they triplexes with single rentals? Or duplexes with 2 rentals?
If it’s a matter of just converting into a triplex, or, even easier, just dividing a large bedroom that had been divided in the others — that’s such a relatively small reno compared with the asking price differential. Yeah, it costs $, but not a couple hundred thou worth. Though it depends a lot on the kind of layout you’re dealing with… maybe this one wd be a particular headache for some reason.
In any case, not sure why that makes this one cheaper — the two rentals that are a turnoff to you could be a plus to another buyer so I’d think it would be a wash.
No condo. Not in a million years. I didn’t move to Brooklyn to live in a crappy, get-it-up-before-interest-rates-go-too-high, sheet rock, character-less piece of junk. Just my opinion though!!!
Based entirely by the photos provided, the 6th Avenue house has a disagreeable, unpleasant feel about it. All that exsposed brick sucking the light out of the rooms…The remaining walls have been sheetrocked with no details, and clamshell moldings scream out cheap reno. It may not be Icky but yucky comes to my mind. For all those people looking to buy, are any of you waiting for all the new condo units, maybe 200 or so that will be coming on the market in the next two years? I understand 5th Avenue around 16th street is going to be getting dozens of new units not to mention everything on Fourth Avenue. If the economy tanks there should be a pretty big surplus to choose from.
I think you’re right, Linus, those others were higher but I looked at the pictures and this only has a two bedroom duplex for the owners. As someone who has a family and is looking now, I, for instance, would not be interested because if I were going to buy a house with income rentals, I need at least three bedrooms (and I’m not so interested in converting one of the other rentals as that costs $$) Therein, I believe, lies the price differential between this and the other ones on 6th Ave.
A&H, for one, is I think it total denial about the market softening. I say this because of the way they’ve priced some of their other properties that I’ve seen.
And “icky”–while a totally naive & frankly dumb (so much so that I thought it was sarcastic) thing to say on this site–is still better than softball-sized bullet holes or what have you…
I think “icky” was obnoxious too but I don’t want to go down the road of deciding which comments are too offensive to be acceptable. That goes for the numerous times people here have said that my neighborhood, Park Slope, is full of selfish, boring, materialistic breeders who don’t care about their neighbors. That’s easily as offensive to me as “icky,” but they say it, I disagree, I can take it, life goes on. Besides, “icky” post is just so juvenile it’s self-discrediting.
Anyway, 6th Ave place is either a good deal, or prices are really going down, or both. We’ve seen listings within a block or two on the same Ave on this site priced a few hundred K more in recent months. (Maybe this was even one of them.) With two rentals, I think it makes sense even with needed kitchen work — but then I haven’t seen the inside.