House of the Day: 614 2nd Street
Someone obviously spent a lot of dough fixing up the five-story limestone house at 614 2nd Street in Park Slope. The question is whether they’ll get their money back now that they are trying to sell the place. We wouldn’t bet on it, as the $3,900,000 price tag is a good 20 to 25 percent…
Someone obviously spent a lot of dough fixing up the five-story limestone house at 614 2nd Street in Park Slope. The question is whether they’ll get their money back now that they are trying to sell the place. We wouldn’t bet on it, as the $3,900,000 price tag is a good 20 to 25 percent more than your run-of-the-mill nice brownstone in the area. Of course, this 4,500-square-foot place is more eye-popping than the competition, but despite having some wonderful old detail, the whole thing feels a little overdone to our eye. (We’re loving that master dressing room-with-sink though. Yum.) Anyway, if they get their price, it will be a great vote of confidence for the brownstone market. We shall see.
614 2nd Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
This house is back on the market, now at 3.1 mil. Any takers?
3.9mil?? And it’s not even leather!
Well, good luck to them. Pretty exterior, entertainment kitchenette on parlor floor…whatever. Not worth FOUR MILL!
know this house, its on my block, there is a garden apt. and like all the houses on south side of 2nd, it has the original HUGE kitchen on the garden. exterior looks better than this photo, i think.
know this house, its on my block, there is a garden apt. and like all the houses on south side of 2nd, it has the original HUGE kitchen on the garden. exterior looks better than this photo, i think.
know this house, its on my block, there is a garden apt. and like all the houses on south side of 2nd, it has the original HUGE kitchen on the garden. exterior looks better than this photo, i think.
I’ve been in this house and there is no garden apartment — the kitchen is on the lower level (see last picture on corcoran site). The ‘tiny’ kitchen on the parlor floor is just an extra kitchen to prepare food. Admitedly, pretty old school…but this is a place for entertaining; not really your ordinary family house.
I’m with 5:45 on this one. We too have been looking in PS, Ft. G and CH for a long time and are ready and willing to buy. In fact, put an over-ask offer on that house on Adelphi back in February. Didn’t get it. Obviously. Wept for a week.
Anyway, we were also interested in the other house on 2nd street, which has been on the market for several months (has been reduced to 2.995) and which looks mightily similar to this one, but ultimately lost our love for it because of a very narrow kitchen which ate into the entire backyard. That and the fact that much work was needed in updating all of the bathrooms and said kitchen.
When I saw this new listing with Corcoran I was stunned at the list price. Cannot imagine what anyone – owner or broker – could be thinking. NO amount of gingerbread-y woodwork or “original details” is worth a million bucks. Nope. We won’t even think about looking at this one until it gets a haircut of some three quarters of a mill.
Here’s the point re corco’s pricing: In Manhattan, this is a $10 million property, at least, and it would be somewhere on the UES. So if you want a gorgeous gingerbready brownstone in a mostly safe neighborhood, but Manhattan is too rich, this is your best bet. Maybe there’s a few like this in BH, but most I’ve seen there are smaller.
I’m discounting every other neighborhood in brownstone Brooklyn, because they’re not likely to appeal to my fictitious buyer.