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December 21, 2005

House of the Day: Vinegar Hill 2-Family Brick

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houseThis listing caught our eye because, well, there aren't that many of these brick houses in Vinegar Hill and it's rare that they hit the market. This particular place, a four-story, two-family with an attached carriage house, is located at Gold and Water, two blocks from the waterfront. The interior definitely has charm but needs quite a bit of work (love the wide floorboards!). We're not sure what the commercial space would fetch but bet it would meaningfully defray the mortgage cost. The major drawback? Proximity to the powerplant and the Farragut Houses. Very charming though.
Vinegar Hill 2-Family [Corcoran] GMAP




Posted by Brownstoner at 11:38 AM | Comments (19)
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As much as I love google maps and their satelite images they have nothing on what microsoft has come out with. Check it: http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=adr.69%20Gold%20St%2C%20Brooklyn%2C%20NY%2011201

You can use the compass arrows to change the perspective of the view as well.

Posted by: Ben at December 21, 2005 11:49 AM

Wow. You're not kidding! We replaced the goodle aerial photo with one from msft.

Posted by: Brownstoner at December 21, 2005 12:09 PM

I'm pretty sure this house was at $2 million over the summer -- can anyone confirm/deny?

Posted by: Sloper at December 21, 2005 12:28 PM

those projects ruin it for everyone! down with the farragut houses!

Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2005 12:49 PM

what a dump

Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2005 1:01 PM

It is a dump (although I love the wide floorboards). Maybe that's why the girl in one of the pictures is laughing - laughing at the person who is going to pay that amount of money for it!

Posted by: Anonymous1 at December 21, 2005 1:08 PM

Fabulous place -- reminds me of London squats back in the 70s. Those were the days. But I just couldn't pay serious money for a joint like that today.

Posted by: Anon at December 21, 2005 1:29 PM

I love it.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2005 1:55 PM

love it. hope somone spruces it up, while preserving the good ol' feel.

Posted by: 9000 at December 21, 2005 2:15 PM

I drove by the house over the weekend. I was cute and one could definitely expand on top of the garage (er..."carriage house"). I was narrow and the side wall had a buldge, which turned me off of it.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2005 2:23 PM

This WAS just sold! Boy that's a fast flip.

You know who is really bummed about the Farragut Houses? The people living in them, I bet! Why can't we have low income housing that respects the fact that ALL people want to have a beautiful home? Where are all our Urban Planners?

Posted by: renogirl at December 21, 2005 3:13 PM

lets renovate the whole world!!!! WHO's WITH ME?!

Posted by: Anonymous at December 21, 2005 3:34 PM

the projects are a failure not because of design. Stuy Town/ Thomas Cooper House look like the pjs, but are far from ghetto. public housing is a failure because is no longer the stop-gap measure it was designed to be. folks seldom move out of public housing due whether its circumstance or cheap rent. basically it's warehousing of the poor.

at the risk of sounding totally un-pc but why are we subsidizing the unemployed to live so close to the central business district aka lower manhattan? quality of life for the poor would be much higher in a less competitive real estate market (read: suburban markets) However, one is accused of black removal to posit such a theory

Posted by: freemarker at December 21, 2005 8:16 PM

Freemarker, yes you DO sound totally un-pc. Sounds like you're the one who should be living in the suburbs.

Posted by: anon at December 22, 2005 6:54 AM

anon,


read today's NYT house and home section. folks are moving in droves to PA for better quality of life for their dollar - good schools and lots of room. Is it really so evil of me to want that for low income folks currently living in the NYC?

why do middle class white liberal assume poor people of color want to live in the inner city? how come our burbs are 95% white? isn't that a problem we should try to address? I bet you grew up in a lily white burb.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 22, 2005 9:48 AM

long term studies have shown that living within 3/4 of a mile from a power plant like the one in vinager hill has caused cases of Lukemia in children and has also caused cancer in adults

Posted by: ron at December 22, 2005 9:58 AM

I used to live in this building on the first two floors about 5 years ago... First off it's a beautiful building on a great quiet block... but it needs a lot of work... a lot of work. The main thing to tell you is that it had a horrible termite problem... we used to get swarms of those disgusting things flying around our apt every other week. Im not so sure what's been done to it.. but you should check the beams and see if they are rotten/eaten through. They would come up to the first floor from the basement. The basement has a neat little feature... it used to have long tunnels that go all the way to the river... my guess is for the underground railroad or molasas running during prohibition. The kitchen on the ground floor is great with a cast iron stove with a flat grill... it has a beutiful spiral staircase and the floorboards are probably the nicest I have ever seen... I loved living there, but the termites just became unbearable.

Posted by: Anon at December 22, 2005 10:09 AM

I used to live in this building on the first two floors about 5 years ago... First off it's a beautiful building on a great quiet block... but it needs a lot of work... a lot of work. The main thing to tell you is that it had a horrible termite problem... we used to get swarms of those disgusting things flying around our apt every other week. Im not so sure what's been done to it.. but you should check the beams and see if they are rotten/eaten through. They would come up to the first floor from the basement. The basement has a neat little feature... it used to have long tunnels that go all the way to the river... my guess is for the underground railroad or molasas running during prohibition. The kitchen on the ground floor is great with a cast iron stove with a flat grill... it has a beutiful spiral staircase and the floorboards are probably the nicest I have ever seen... I loved living there, but the termites just became unbearable.

Posted by: Anon at December 22, 2005 10:11 AM

The bulging wall is scary. The house is very narrow.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 22, 2005 10:54 AM

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