That Pesky Last Unit at 302 Washington Avenue
After more than a year on the market and with other units already occupied, this duplex at 302 Washington Avenue still can’t find a buyer. Is it the finishes or is $1,199,000 just too much to pay for a duplex in this part of town? The building itself is beautiful. You can check it out…
After more than a year on the market and with other units already occupied, this duplex at 302 Washington Avenue still can’t find a buyer. Is it the finishes or is $1,199,000 just too much to pay for a duplex in this part of town? The building itself is beautiful. You can check it out for yourself at the open house on Sunday.
302 Washington Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Condo of the Day: 302 Washington Avenue [Brownstoner]
I looked at a few of the upper units in this building awhile back. Everything is perfectly fine except for the bus stop RIGHT NEXT to windows, (See photo). Anyone who has every lived close to a bus line knows how loud those things can be at all hours of the night. I’m sure a ground floor unit would bear the worst of it…
By city views they mean you have to get on the bus and take it to the promenade and there you can see the city.
I just don’t get this. I mean it’s “nice.” But for that kind of money it should be more than that. This kitchen is disappointing. No real backyard is also a problem. I think the outside looks good despite the sub par landscaping.
What “city views” do you figure you get from a “garden duplex”?
I like Tinarina’s use of Spanish in her post.
Kudos to using “el crappo”
Hilarious
We live in the lower duplex of our own brownstone, which we renovated relatively cheaply, and it’s far nicer than this. The ceilings in the kitchen and dining room are low. If there is a nicer parlor floor living room with high ceilings, it’s funny there are no photos of it. Also, the basement floor is more below ground than the standard brownstone, which has more steps leading up to the parlor floor. And I agree with above posters, this is an unconventional layout and I don’t understand why they would do this.
There IS no garden…there is a building right behind this townhouse. AND, by the way, that little moderne building used to be white which was appropriate. Someone decided to “brownstone” it a couple of years ago to ill effect. Yuck. The small bldg has metal windows from the 1930’s. The overly dark brown looks terrible.
The apartment in questions is a 3-bedroom…not sure why someone above wrote that it only has 2… But still, the space is not so hot. Too much money of a mtg to carry on top of the maintenance. It would sell if it were priced accordingly.
The developers managed to ruin a perfectly lovely brownstone with this conversion. This particular apartment has a really weird layout, and finishes/workmanship in this building are el crappo. Seems way overpriced.
Its the layout, which is unconventional for a brownstone duplex. The space does not flow. It is unworkable if you are a couple with a child or two. They would have been better of putting all of the bedrooms and full baths on basement floor and having kitchen, dining and living area on the (presumably) higher ceilinged parlor floor, with a small deck-stairway to the garden. The price would be okay if the configuration were different.