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June 24, 2005

Open Season on 14 Townhouses

14 townhouses
It looks like the developers of 14 Townhouses on State Street in Boerum Hill are now ready to receive your deposits. Corcoran's Kerrie-Anne Scalia just put the listing up on the NY Times classifieds today for the first time. The row of townhouses, which we've already praised as about the only decent new design to go up in Brooklyn in recent memory, do a remarkably good job of fitting into their environment despite their more modern design. Each is about 4,000 square feet and asking $2,650,000. What are you waiting for? Run like the wind!
14 Townhouses [Corcoran]
State Street Townhouses: Promising Indeed [Brownstoner]




Posted by Brownstoner at 1:56 PM | Comments (13)
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I know Corcs is listing these, but who is the developer. I think they are a great and would push them to developed other empty lots in the neighborhood(s).

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 2:13 PM

I live down the block from these at Boulevard East, can't wait to see who the neighbors will be! Construction seems to be making great progress.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 4:48 PM

What was on this site before? Anybody know? It wasn't too long ago when this would not exactly have been considered a prime location, but I'm sure they will sell rapidly.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 5:46 PM

Why do you always push Corcoran? I thought this was some sort of independant blog. It seems any chance you get to talk them you do? "What are you waiting for" you should put a picture of Babs over your title and rename the site Brown-noser....

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 6:40 PM

This site used to be a parking lot I think. About 10-15 years ago, this area was really scary... now its AMAZING how much it has changed. Almost all the parking lots have been built to something else, or have projects in the works... I LOVE living around here! I'm surprised this area has not developed sooner, it is a 10-minute walk to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, steps from Smith Street (which I know also used to be scary), Atlantic Ave, and sits right on the edge of Cobble and Boerum Hills. Not to mention the eight train lines within a 4-block radius!! Nowadays its pretty prime if you ask me!! The only thing left is the god-awful looking HOD. Hopefully its only a matter of time before its sold!!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 7:25 PM

I guess no chance of a "condo-conversion" for the House-of-D (AKA "The Brooklyn Hilton")?

Posted by: anon123 at June 24, 2005 8:04 PM

Last news I saw about the jail tower is that it will re-open in the next 2-3 years, at least temporarily, while work is being done on parts of Rikers. So anyone who is living or moving here should expect that the physical infrastructure will not change there for quite some time.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 8:09 PM

It should be noted that the speculation about it re-opening (I assume the Daily News article in March is what you are referring to) was conveniently made weeks before a second round of funding was supposed to be issued for its renovation. Money won't be granted if it isn't "needed." The DOC also stated that while, in theory, it could reopen because of the Rikers construction (AKA- we don't want to lose our funding) there was no formal plan in place to do so.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 9:54 PM

Jails never go away -- that's how it was put to me by a councilman. I wouldn't bet on it going anywhere.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 10:05 PM

Eh? What about the Woman's Detention Center that used to be the West Village? What about the prison that was at Brooklyn Navy Yard? I think the last prisoner left there in the mid-90s. Now it's closed and gone, soon to be redeveloped. I'm sure there's more... Your councilman isn't very optimistic!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 10:28 PM

To the conspiracy theorist who thinks we're always pushing Corcoran, all we can say is that they consistently have the most listings and tend to present the information in the best way. If you go back through the archives, there are plenty of instances where we've voiced our skepticism about individual listings, especially on price. Recently we lavished praise on 41 Monroe, and guess what? We were right on the money: 17 bids and almost 20% over ask. We have two Corcoran listings in Open House Picks this week--we tried for a while not to have more than one, but then decided that we should pick the most interesting listings regardless of broker affiliation. That's what serves the readers best, we think. You're welcome to bring whatever level of skepticism you like to what we write, but we've never been anything but above board about disclosing any personal conflicts of interest on the few occasions we've discussed properties that we have some personal connection to, like knowing the broker or owner.
Bstoner

Posted by: Brownstoner at June 25, 2005 7:40 AM

877 Sterling Pl. is in Crown Heights, not Bed-Stuy. Bed-Stuy end at Atlantic Avenue.

Posted by: a at June 26, 2005 9:37 PM

Read your post Brownstoner and your full of shit and so is your pathetic blog! You assume a hierarchy on this site and tend to favor these firms who send you updates clearly repping themselves but for some reason you post yourself and loose all credability. Why post a douglass elliman listing that has no interesting value except to cowtail to these frirms. You are really alienating yourself lately, and I think your true colors have shows. Pathetic asshole!!!!

Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 7:27 AM

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