House of the Day: 49 8th Avenue
Sweeeeeet! Check out this 25-foot-wide corner brownstone at 49 8th Avenue in Park Slope. While whoever can end up affording the $3,200,000 price tag will inevitably want to gussy it up a bit (even the listing says it’s “in need of repair and renovation,” we’re loving what we can see of the house in its…
Sweeeeeet! Check out this 25-foot-wide corner brownstone at 49 8th Avenue in Park Slope. While whoever can end up affording the $3,200,000 price tag will inevitably want to gussy it up a bit (even the listing says it’s “in need of repair and renovation,” we’re loving what we can see of the house in its current unfancified state. It’s got 42 windows and, on the parlor floor, a ballroom. Overall, there’s more than 6,500 square feet of space. Ah, to dream.
49 8th Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Fabulous building and great (if legal) configuration as someone mentioned. In a fantasy world, I would buy this with good friends and turn it into a two unit coop and rent to a good/quiet doctors office. I’d much rather have half of this home at this location than one of the smaller townhouses down by 4th Ave which would also run you ~$1.5M and not even have the income stream.
There are not “bricked up” windows on the Berkeley Place side….those are original “blind windows”. What is offensive is the 1940s aluminum window cut into what was once a front parlor. The interior of the house is radically altered to cr4eate the two apartments…parlor floor original proportions and detail gone.
There are not “bricked up” windows on the Berkeley Place side….those are original “blind windows”. What is offensive is the 1940s aluminum window cut into what was once a front parlor. The interior of the house is radically altered to cr4eate the two apartments…parlor floor original proportions and detail gone.
Why is there so much disagreement about the simplest neighborhood in all of brooklyn?
North Slope = North of Union Street.
Center Slope = Union to 9th Street
South Slope = 9th Street to 15th Street
Oh, and I’d say 4th is the cut-off… being generous, and then we are in the Gowanus (at least below Butler where the canal exists)
(though, somehow 34th Street and 3rd Ave still counts as Park Slope according to our friends in there real estate biz… though I guess that’s similar to Nostrand and Sterling being called Prospect Heights.)
“Jeez for that price couldn’t Corcoran pony up for a professional photographer. The photos look like they were taken with a cell phone.”
They are professional photos. Look at them full screen.
I still think of North Slope as all named streets, but I guess that varies with each person you ask…
I highly recommend Park Slope, Pigeon. I lived in Manhattan for years and feel as though I finally found “home.” My block (you probably walked it this weekend) is very very quiet, even though I’m in North Slope, but I’m between 7th and 8th Avenues on a named street…
Many nice neighborhoods in Brownstone Brooklyn, so keep checking them out, but for me, nothing beats Park Slope…
I agree, 11217. There’s something nice about the hills in Park Slope.
I just realized that Carroll Street and Montgomery Street are not North Slope, but are Center Slope. (The dividing line between north and south is Union Street, right?)
So, next time I’m in the ‘hood, I’ll have to do a closer architecture comparison of the North Slope and the Center Slope. It will be fun.
BTW, I, too, am without a car. But I currently live in a high vehicled (Manhattan) neighborhood and am looking for someplace to live that has fewer car stereos, buzzing car engines, idling Fresh Direct trucks, horns, car alarms, exhaust…
I think you hit it, Pigeon. Park Slope is MUCH more diverse than some people give it credit for, and even though it feels very much like a tight knit community (which it IS in many respects) it is also quite varied in terms of architecture, demographics, socioeconomics, etc. You really picked up on that, it seems and I concur.
And now that I think about it, it would make sense that North Slope has more car traffic…it’s closer to Flatbush and also some of the named streets feed into the area around Grand Army Plaza, etc.
As a person without a car, I guess I don’t pay too much attention to cars. I HAVE noticed a marked increase in biking in the neighborhood in the past year due to the addition of bike lanes on nearly every street in the Slope…
It was a great weekend for walking around…I did quite a lot of it as well…
p.s. It occurred to me walking around yesterday that for me part of the thing that makes the upper slope more grand is the fact that the actual “slope” of Park Slope is much more pronounced when you pass 6th or 7th Avenue. You really start to walk uphill a bit leading up to the Park and it adds for a nice chance in scope since much of Manhattan and Brooklyn are so flat. (Upper Manhattan/Inwood has some nice hills too, which I love…)
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Yes, I did walk around the Slope this weekend — both Saturday and Sunday (Halloween was particularly nice, as it magnified the friendly community feel of the slope). I made a point of seeing Carroll Street and Montgomery Place, and many of the other name streets.
My walking tour confirmed what you and Bob Marvin said. The North Slope is perhaps the most grand, but some of the Center Slope can match the North in grandeur. The “upper slope” (between 7th and 9th Avenues) is prime. Some of the lower slope is very pleasant, and some of it is architecturally unpleasant.
The slope has a lot of diversity in architecture, socio-economics and, of course, race. And, as you said, the entire slope is great.
Also, there seems to be more car traffic in the North Slope. The Center Slope seems to have more streets with a nice balance between quiet and convenient location. But, as you said, it’s on a block-by-block basis.
That’s my view. Anyone disagree?