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19-Garden-Interior-0808.jpgThere’s not a bad thing to say about the charming Tudor house at 19 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights. All the original detail is just as it should be, and the updated kitchen looks well done (except for our pet peeve—granite counters!) The biggest challenge to achieving the asking price of $3,995,000 will likely be the somewhat diminutive size. While the listing doesn’t give a number, it can’t be much more than 2,000 square feet. Still, it’s on one of the quietest and most quaint blocks in The Heights and the architecture is a rarity, so anything’s possible.
19 Garden Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark


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  1. I’ve visited this a few times.

    Key points:
    1) House is very narrow. 15 wide at the widest. Not a huge problem for the living room, but it makes the upstairs rooms quite narrow. Kitchen is perhaps 12′ wide. Granite counter is cracked; the rest of the kitchen has white ‘Euro’ style formica cabinets that perfectly express 1987 — not bad, just dated. No bathroom on the ‘parlor’ floor.

    Downstairs is the giant cat scratching post room. Not really sure what you’d do with that sunken area, but there is no way that I’d pay 2k/foot for it. All bathrooms/other rooms down there are finished in the cheap brown tile/ formica that was also popular in 1987; the recessed lighting really adds to the vibe.

    Upstairs, the main bedrooms have trashed w/w carpet. The california style closets are nice, and the giant walk-in closets lovely, but again, 2k/foot for a closet makes your closet worth perhaps 100k. I can buy a storage unit for that. It’s called a studio in ENY. Only one bedroom is full width, but the rest are ok. There are leaks in the bathroom.

    Top floor has a large bedroom, with another 80s-inspired bathroom, as well as roof access. Would be perect for a teen.

    The broker said you could rent it for 10-12k/year. I’d pay 1.5-2.0, but no more; the house is actually smaller than 2k worth of usable space (some of the 2k is in the utility rooms.

    Overpriced, move along.

  2. I think the beef with granite, which in my opinion is the best counter material, comes from folks who have invested in some faddish material such as poured concrete, 1950’s recycled formica, or in Mr. B’s case, marble slabs that were formally bathroom fixtures (!) and having made these embarrasing errors, are now disdaining the material of choice of sane home owners.

  3. Actually honed granite shows stains more than regular granite. I love my granite countertops because of all the reasons Nokilisa mentioned but I think if I was doing a kitchen now, I would seriously look into Caesarstone/Silestone.