Open House Picks
Clinton Hill 241 Washington Avenue Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 187 Sterling Place Corcoran Sunday 1-3 $1,375,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 209 18th Street Fillmore Sunday 1-3 $989,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 584A Halsey Street Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4 $859,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 655 84th Street Jabour Realty Sunday…
Clinton Hill
241 Washington Avenue
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
187 Sterling Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1-3
$1,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
209 18th Street
Fillmore
Sunday 1-3
$989,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
584A Halsey Street
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$859,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
655 84th Street
Jabour Realty
Sunday 1-3
$659,000
GMAP P*Shark
maybe he means the huge apt houses near st james and lafayette
Washington Ave house is absolutely gorgeous. If you’ve got the bucks, and you want a period brownstone with the bells and whistles, this looks like your house. That’s a great block, I can’t see how anyone could find fault with it. Not every post war apartment building is a project or a slum. Pratt students and yuppies have been living there since it was built, practically. I also agree it is nice and quiet there, and when I used to housesit my then-employers’ dogs,(they lived on St. James) I always walked all the way down Washington and admired the block. And that was back in the late 80’s, and it’s just gotten better. I would imagine it would be hard to find an intact 1 family in this neighborhood, mostly because so many people subdivided the houses, especially for student housing.
mr b, stop calling anything south of prospect express way park slope south! its green wood heights!
Also had a laugh about the “unsavory” apartment buildings on Washington–I taught at Pratt last semester, and several of my students–19-year-old girls from New England–lived in those dorms. I’ve lived on the block myself for a half year now and love it. Having toured the house that’s on the market out of curiosity, I have to say, while not flawless, it’s certainly pretty special. Kitchen needed updates, but that almost seems minor, given the museumy detail to be found here. I remember thinking the garden was lovely–there were some gorgeous trees.
fortgreener at 3:35–do you mean the wash ave house? what large not so savory apt bldgs? the ones full of yuppies and pratt students? a real threat! also, aren’t all brownstones close to the back of other townhouses? i happen to think wash and willoughby is a really nice, quiet area. can’t see it being unsavory or dark and depressing at all.
it’s always thin pickings this time of year. The best deals have already sold in the spring and early summer. What’s left usually is overpriced or has something wrong with it.
People are so worried about a bubble that they think prices are falling even when they aren’t.
I would so buy the ph house in a heart beat. too broke to get it now. blah damn renovations.
anyone know if the whole building would be delivery vacant?
I like the Bed Stuy house also. After the nightmare of stripping all the woodwork in my current house, I think I’d leave it painted. Ask me again in a few months though, when I’ve forgotten what a horrible job stripping is. The kitchen and bathroom on the bottom of the page don’t seem to be updated (well, the kitchen looks like a Home Depot update). This is why the photography is so important, kids, because they do look lovely in the pictures.
Speaking purely in terms of the houses themselves, and not whether or not they are priced correctly, the Bed Stuy house looks quite nice. I would have to strip most of the woodwork, at least on the parlour floor, in order to be happy, but the layout looks pretty good, and both kitchens are decent,as are the bathrooms. This would be a great starter house, if you had future plans for something larger, and would give one a cosy home with a rental income, to boot. Assuming the mechanicals and plumbing, electric are pretty good, one could certainly do worse.