House of the Day: 135 Westminster Road
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first…
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first showing is on Sunday but we bet this one won’t last long.
135 Westminster Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
It closed last week at $51K over asking. It was on the market for only a week.
Double Ditto 10:06.
Permit Parking is just a dream right now. If this option makes it through the red tape, parking by permit will probably be made available to any Brooklyn resident who chooses to purchase a permit to park in Park Slope. Remember that there is also a movement against this and people like you are helping the anti-permit faction, so don’t be overzealous.
ditto to that 10:06. ITA.
6:19. Your just an asshole. Plain and simple. If there are more like you out there, the streets of Park Slope will be desolate in no time, despite the plethora of amenities.
Oh, by the way, there are people in Ditmas Park, who like me, have plenty of money to pay for parking. Anywhere we like.
By the way, how’s that pristine one family you’re enjoying on Montgomery Place. Or is it a cramped one bedroom – all that’s left after you rented out the entire place to foot a morgage you can’t afford in the real world?
“Park Slope is not your personal fortress and you don’t get to choose who can visit or park there.”
Actually, with the momentum and power behind the parking permit plan, it looks like we will. So enjoy your driveway. And you’ll be welcome to visit if you’re willing to pay for the space your car takes up.
I’m not convinced the kitchen is so dire, although clearly not to everyone’s taste. There is a whole industry out there which refurbishes vintage appliances. The cabinets, I know, are the original ones. Same configuration and style I’ve seen in a number of other houses in the nabe with original kitchen carpentry. I have to say, I like the original cabinetry, and I like kitchen’s which aren’t “fitted”, but rather use pieces of actual furniture – an approach which would work really well in this particular kitchen.
I could do without the skirt on the sink, and if I was staying with the vintage look, I might want to go for an Elmira stove… But I wouldn’t need an expensive reno to make it work for me.
11:41/Parking Permit or whatever,
I reside in Victorian Flatbush and patronize local business but I do look forward to new businesses opening in the area. However, I see all of Brooklyn as my home town and I also drive, take the train or at times ride my bike to areas other than Victorian Flatbush for goods and services, Park Slope included. Park Slope is not your personal fortress and you don’t get to choose who can visit or park there.
Anyway, This home seems to priced about right. It is in PPS historic district I think the kitchen should be featured in Old House Interiors or Old House Journal but I wouldn’t want to live with a kitchen like that. I would have to renovate it.
This house is a treasure, and the woodwork and details are lovely.
If you don’t agree, then don’t even think of buying the house and doing something like painting the woodwork and/or removing the period details.
*you, put that paint brush down NOW*
If this are not your style, then move along, nothing to see here.
Leave the house to someone that loves the period details and will treasure them and preserve them.
Thank you 12:12 for replying as I would have to 11:41. All this: ‘you should send kids to your local public schools, must shop at your local 99c store’ etc is just BS. I drive from my Ditmas Park home to buy bagels on Court & Bergen because their bagels are far better. I by my meat from a Los Paisanos on Smith St, get my nails done there as well at Dashing Diva. I am currently trying to find a less expensive dry cleaner b/c the one closest to my house charges $3.50 for each of my husbands dress shirts. Anyway, you get my point. I am not going to shop at my local stores just because they are close to where I bought my fortress. Besides, since I have a driveway I can go anywhere I want for anything I want and only have to worry about parking on one end of my trip 😉