No Sleep 'Til Clinton Hill: Yauch on Washington?
The celebrity drumbeat goes on in Clinton Hill. One open house go-er spotted Beastie Boy Adam Yauch along with wife and daughter admiring the crown moldings and exposed brick walls at 219 Washington Avenue on Sunday afternoon. (Corcoran would not confirm.) The 3,800-square-foot house, which has been on the market for $2,395,000 since the beginning…
The celebrity drumbeat goes on in Clinton Hill. One open house go-er spotted Beastie Boy Adam Yauch along with wife and daughter admiring the crown moldings and exposed brick walls at 219 Washington Avenue on Sunday afternoon. (Corcoran would not confirm.) The 3,800-square-foot house, which has been on the market for $2,395,000 since the beginning of May, is just a few doors down from the brownstone that Queer Eye host Ted Allen recently purchased. Decorating tips, anyone?
219 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
‘Queer’ Guy Snags Washington Avenue B-stone [Brownstoner]
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“out pickin pockets at the Atlantic Antic, no one wants to hear you cause your rhymes are getting frantic”
On the “roots down” video, you can see Adrock wearing the original “O’keefe’s” tshirt- under the name it says “brooklyn heights”…I have pictures of me drinking there when i was 14 taken by an old black dude named “Flash” who used an old fashioned polariod camera and sold pics… those were the days..
Yauch’s parents have lived in Cobble Hill for awhile.
i don’t know if his father was the original brownstoner, but his name is Noel Yauch, not Robert.
Here’s another fun Beastie fact…they started out as a punk band. Adam Yauch is a year older than me and all this talk of his father being the original brownstoner is making me feel really old!
Nice to see all the Brownstoners showing off their stret cred.
Hey Mr. B,
If someone starts quoting from Cookie Puss, shut the string down. Okay?
One of my most treasured possessions is an autographed LP cover of License to Ill that leads off “Rob & Sean -Good Lookin, October ’87”
Gotta love when the B-Boy’s drop about growing up in NYC:
Ad-Rock: “Well I’m from Manhattan and MCA’s from Brooklyn, yeah, MCA, your shit be cooking”
Mike D: “Every morning took the train to the High Street Station, doing homework on the train what a fucked-up situation”
That last album was unlistenable though. Ugh. Don’t ch-ch-ch-checkitout.
I know the wood framed shingled house you mention S Slope. That place has been on and off the market at least twice in the last five years, so maybe there was something up there. Plus it had little in the way of detail.
I’m not surprised prices keep going up. I think Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights are still undervalued relative to tonier nabes.
I liked the house that was on the market last year (Brooklyn Prop or A&H) on that block–the dark brown frame with blue trim and a cute little porch? That house started at 1.4, finally went down to around 1.2. I would have bought it but my hubby wanted to stay in the Slope… It’s a good block but over $2 mill?? I’m amazed that prices keep going up! AYE?
So was the father Robert Yauch?
Omygod, I remember him.
He really was the original brownstone doctor.
Hi Bob999, I’m the 10.30 poster. I understood what you mean, and do think this is expensive, but I think there have been sales above 1.7 for a brownstone in Clinton Hill, maybe in the $2million range as bstoner noted above. All in all, I don’t see why we won’t start seeing more places in prime Clinton Hill going around $2million since that is what your starting to see a lot of in FG a couple of blocks away. It will always depend on the house and block, but there is no reason why these prices won’t become more common in my opinion, for four story brownstones.