Clinton Ave. Curb Cutter Takes 20% Haircut
When it comes to curb cutting—and now price cutting—the owner of 174 Clinton Avenue doesn’t mess around. Taking advantage of the 100-foot commercial overlay from nearby Myrtle Avenue and the fact that the house falls just outside the Clinton Hill Historic District, the owner (who’s also developing the lot behind this house) was able to…
When it comes to curb cutting—and now price cutting—the owner of 174 Clinton Avenue doesn’t mess around. Taking advantage of the 100-foot commercial overlay from nearby Myrtle Avenue and the fact that the house falls just outside the Clinton Hill Historic District, the owner (who’s also developing the lot behind this house) was able to get permits to butcher convert the front of the ground floor of the historic brownstone into a garage and to cut the curb for a driveway entrance. The theory was that the addition of the parking space would enhance the value on resale, we presume. Well, it couldn’t have helped that much: The asking price was axed last week from $2,500,000 to $1,990,000. Karma?
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You try finding a parking spot at 3am or on a day off when there is alternate side of the street parking. If its not landmarked good for the seller in knowing what he can and can’t do.
You try finding a parking spot at 3am or on a day off when there is alternate side of the street parking. If its not landmarked good for the seller in knowing what he can and can’t do.
Loser at 5:16. I am at work, I am white and you are a complete liar about your living situation.
You do think CH is a ghetto, otherwise you would have known better than to give others a reason to believe so.
I told people who didn’t know the area to keep their fingers off their keyboard. You can’t follow directions, so you are a moron to boot.
4:38/poor fool typing in the library: I am not white, I own already in PS and won’t even need to sell my apt. when I find the bigger house I’m looking for, and I never said that I think CH is the ghetto. I said some people think it is and that it is more dangerous than PS/BH and that therefore this house is not worth 2M even to those of us who have this much money. Stop living in denial that some racist is keeping you down. Get the chip off your shoulder and get a job.
12:22: You are looking? You must be a bitter renter. Shame you didn’t buy sooner, like me. Then you wouldn’t be so bitter.
And stop using ghetto to imply non-whites live there. (I know you weren’t implying that white tweens are shaking down the hood.)
Grow up.
Actually Park Slope is a lesbian war zone. Tehy go out at night and groan in back yards like wild animal cats having disgusting sex everywhere.
i cant stand people saying clinton hill is a ghetto…im sorry but you are wrong. im living in the neighborhood now and yes i have heard of car stereos getting stolen…
when i lived in park slope i was witness to 2 drunk driving accidents one right on my corner almost hitting an person, was a victim of a bunch of kids trying to rob my gfs ipod, and i saw a few broken car windows…and i lived on carroll street!…so dont say clinton hill is a ghetto because of a few assholes… if you truly think this neighborhood is a “ghetto” or unsafe then you need to move out of nyc.
I actually think there are some killer, beautiful houses on this block. And while this owner is clearly a douche of the century for converting the dining room into a garage, this ugly-ass curb cut is not so painful in context when you consider the house is hard up against a commercial building (with adjacent parking lot) next door.
Meanwhile, if you don’t like Clinton Ave or Clinton hill, for that matter, that’s your bidness. We wouldn’t trade it for any nabe we’ve looked at. Love it here. And nobody’s smashed my car windows, grabbed for my iPhone, or done anything else threatening, day or night.
People get mugged in the richest areas in the city and the poorest. What-evah.
Actually this particular block isn’t the best. The Clinton Hill Co-ops loom over the east side of the street, and the density and double parking makes is quite the obstacle course. Many of the other townhouses on the west side of the street have been butchered. Not nearly as grand as the next block south or as quaint as other blocks.