Open House Picks: Townhouses
Park Slope 858 President Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $2,950,000 GMAP P*Shark Crown Heights 836 Prospect Place Fillmore Real Estate Sunday 1-3 $1,750,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 68 Greene Avenue Brooklyn Properties Sunday 12:30-2:30 $1,750,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 246 Bergen Street Douglas Elliman Sunday 11:30-1 $1,549,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 473 Bainbridge Street…
Park Slope
858 President Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$2,950,000
GMAP P*Shark
Crown Heights
836 Prospect Place
Fillmore Real Estate
Sunday 1-3
$1,750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
68 Greene Avenue
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$1,750,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
246 Bergen Street
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 11:30-1
$1,549,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
473 Bainbridge Street
Eskimo Omolade
Saturday 12:30-2
$625,000
GMAP P*Shark
I think sometimes these fantastic townhouses take time to sell. Look at 45 Montgomery Place. It took over a year before that seller found Gregory Bell. But when he did find him, he paid over $850 a square foot ($6,050,000).
Who says that everybody should be able to buy a townhouse. Just because the price maybe too high for you and me, doesn’t mean that some rich guy can’t afford it.
The key is that there are really not many landmarked brownstones. I think the city has 1300. Obviously there will be no more built. 45 Mmontgomery Place comes along once every 5 years. The seller really was patient in waiting for his buyer. I’m sure many people told him/her that nobody would ever pay $6,000,000 in this market. Those people were dead wrong!!!
All I was saying is 1.75mm + 300K in renovations = 2.05mm. That’s just to get it in shape. Reconfiguring is a bit extra. Don’t know why the lunatics in the asylum seized on the one-family thing. Wasn’t my point in the first place.
By the way, the ad in the Times on the link says the open house is Saturday, not Sunday, as is written above.
5:23 is correct that the house on Prospect Place is not in Phase I of the Crown Heights Landmarking. Damn. It is for just the reasons they mentioned that the area needs to be landmarked. However good or bad this house is on the inside, it is indeed on a primo lot, and is part of an INTACT group of about 6 similar looking semidetached and stand alone houses. This entire block is easily one of the best in CH North. The current owner has done some strange things on the outside (and on the inside from the looks of it) including putting up a really ugly roll up security fence on his driveway and a dubious water feature in his front yard, but I can put up with their bad taste a lot better than seeing this beautiful house and block ruined by some sleazy developer. I would give my eyeteeth to be able to save this, but even if I had that kind of money, I could buy two other great houses in the same neighborhood. The owner has either been sold a bill of goods about his property’s wealth, or he/she is really greedy, or they intend to sell to a developer. I’m heartsick.
That Greene Ave listing is actually a great location, it’s so close to everything, walking distance to all the restaurants and trains, etc…it is beautiful, even if you want to reconfigure the layout…you guys are a tough crowd today.
I have nothing to do with the listing btw, it’s just my opinion.
greene ave. is not bad but it is across the street from the proposed Catholic teen-age half way house building. not the most desirable spot.
Prospect is priced right and will sell to a developer who will tear it down.
50×150 ft lot = 7500 ft x a FAR of 2.43 = 18,225 buildable feet. That’s only $96 per buildable foot.
In it’s current state the numbers don’t make sense. As a teardown it does. This block is not in phase I of the CH North Landmarking.
I agree, Anon 4:32. I’d say ‘passionate’ is probably more appropriate.
Ehh, I’ve seen worse vitriol.