House of the Day: 244 Hall Street
Pratt must be kicking itself now. Last June, the art college sold off a property that runs through the block from Washington to Hall between Willoughby and DeKalb in Clinton Hill with both a mansion and a carriage house for the seemingly low price of $3,000,000. (They also sold the adjacent empty lot next door…
Pratt must be kicking itself now. Last June, the art college sold off a property that runs through the block from Washington to Hall between Willoughby and DeKalb in Clinton Hill with both a mansion and a carriage house for the seemingly low price of $3,000,000. (They also sold the adjacent empty lot next door to the same investor for $3,850,000.) Now the buyer is cutting the parcel into two, and trying to sell off the mansion for $3,500,000 (listing here) and the carriage house, above, for $2,600,000. That’ll be a nice half-year’s work if he can pull it off. As for the carriage house, it’s a 40-foot-wide two-family house currently has a pretty non-descript interior. (One-half of the carriage house appeared as the subject of a recent Sketch Pad feature in the NY Times.) Since the asking price for the 3,200-square-foot structure is about $800 a foot and it’s gonna need work, clearly this is being marketed to someone who wants to take advantage of the more than 3,000 square feet of air rights that come with the property. (The NYT story proposed a three-story addition.) Think someone’ll step up?
244 Hall Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Scott Bintner for Property Shark
7:14 PM It was!
Nah nah,
So sad no news again
Brownstoner, really enough.
the cool thing about this carriage house is that it’s directly across the street from the Pratt grounds with well kept sculpture gardens and dog free grass. perfect for family with kids. also, the corner down street at dekalb and hall is pretty cute. party on!
I haven’t looked at PropertyShark about title for these places, but I am more than reasonably certain that Pratt sold both of these places once before in the early eighties after they closed the English Dept and the Food Science School which had offices there. It’s entirely possible the person who bought the buildings sold them back to Pratt when they languished on the market previously.
Maybe Pratt flipped them?
Who wants to buy a spot next to an empty lot that screams DEVELOPER and CONSTRUCTION every day for the next few years….
Hey 2:08, Was that yet another Jerry Minsky plug?
This has got to be a record–the least commented on HOTD.
PropertyShark says this is a landmark – if true, that makes doubling (more or less) the building a much more lengthy process (if its doable at all).