Reno Action at 50 Putnam
After initially being listed at $850,000 last spring (when it was an Open House Pick), the four-story brick house at the southeast corner of Putnam Avenue and Irving Place in Clinton Hill sold last month for $695,000. The new owner has wasted no time getting down to the business of renovation, a fact that made…
After initially being listed at $850,000 last spring (when it was an Open House Pick), the four-story brick house at the southeast corner of Putnam Avenue and Irving Place in Clinton Hill sold last month for $695,000. The new owner has wasted no time getting down to the business of renovation, a fact that made another neighbor so gleeful that he couldn’t help snapping this photo and sending it in to the Brownstoner tip line. According to the DOB permit, there’s no change to the 3-family C of O but the place is getting a complete gut renovation, in case you couldn’t tell from all the debris in the back yard. Interestingly, the architect of record is Pratt’s Brent Porter, he of the many Save-Admirals-Row designs. GMAP
We got the note from her too, just when I was getting annoyed watching them launch debris from the 3rd floor window. Nice cloud of lead paint dust, yummy. I’d probably do it the same way though. We will all miss the parking spot.
Good to see that Brent Porter is the Architect; am glad to hear that he’s keeping busy!
And a big dumpster out there this afternoon. Looks to be a professional, responsible job.
Glad to see work beginning on this. The previous owners emptied it of lifelong residents in order to sell it, then got bogged down in family dispute and let it decay – the pipes burst and flooded two other house’s basements. According to my partner who is tending the homefires while I work in Nepal for three months (thus missing the noisy construction?) the owner has left notes for all the neighbors with her name and that of her contractor if there are any problems. More considerate than I thought to be when I did my work seven years ago.
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If I was the contractor I would want to know that a “gleeful neighbor” was posting pictures of my work on the web, and that the DOB would most likely see these pictures.
Of coarse the debris could be long gone by now, hauled away in a dumpster, and then this is all just a moot point.
IMBY–are you always so charming? How else are they supposed to get the construction debris out of the house?
Welcome new home owner… Our house warming gift to you will be this lovely photo of your backyard in violation of construction/fire/housekeeping regulations. Would you like us to frame that Stop Work Order Violation for you while we’re at it.
This could be such a nice house. Hope they do a tasteful job.
a couple people made comment in Forum thread that if renovate need to make code compliant – as in bathrooms wheelchair accessible, etc. Is that completely true? or major exceptions? as in only if changing CofO? or # of units in bldg. etc?