Closing Bell: 315 Garfield Place, The Movie
Open House NYC has decided to profile our house of the day from September 15th, still on the market with Brown Harris Stevens. This should give you a real 360-degree view of the place. Still think it’s worth $8,500,000?
Open House NYC has decided to profile our house of the day from September 15th, still on the market with Brown Harris Stevens. This should give you a real 360-degree view of the place. Still think it’s worth $8,500,000?
BRG, it’s a slippery slope. You get one of these wet behind the ears recent MBA grads from Columbia, Yale, Wharton or even SMU and they don’t know their ass from their elbow. Yet, you want to make sure they can fit in nicely.
Biff, just make sure you don’t enslave anybody to get things done. They might turn on you and give you the same treatment.
Things were definitely rough here. I actually had to collar someone into helping me out. I’m almost at the end of my rope.
Today, I think I can manage to free myself up and do alot better than yesterday.
You must have been busy, you didn’t post alot yesterday, were you strapped to the chair at work.
BRG, only if you have the time. I don’t want you to get too tied up with it.
‘re-write please’
You’re right, Biff. I need to do a re-write of everything I wrote yesterday. Somehow, the words weren’t lucid. I would start writing and my mind would wonder. But I do think my point was made.
Thanks for pointing it out! And I’ll try harder today.
I agree with comments above, but gotta say, those pinwheel parquet floors are gorgeous! I especially like the wide border with even more intricate inlaid patterns. Beautiful.
The rest of the house is nice, but not $8.5 million nice. I’ve seen equally beautiful interiors on the Bed Stuy and Crown Heights house tours. Amzi is right.
Well this house and its location is exemplary of joie de vivre in Brooklyn but to answer your question Mr B it ain’t worth close to $8.5m in our opinion. Even with better bathrooms and an above average kitchen this thing is @ least 25% over inflated. We like the wide stone facade, garden,awesome flooring & location but “huit millions”? In this economy? Most hedge fund folks are dead or dying but then again we’ve been surprised before…LOL.
As an aside that comment about if the house was in Manhattan is simply silly since location is in fact automatically factored into desirability and hence price. As Amzi Hill has pointed out there is equivalent or better architecture not far away in CH for exponentially less.
It’s killing me whenever she says “all original”. C.P.H Gilbert designed a mansion with Colonial Revival rooms, but the rehab added to or replaced many parts, and rather anemic looking replacements at that! Some parts may be a century old, but that front door, and even the stairway bannister, looks like the result of a quick shopping trip to Home Depot.
The knotty pine and the plaster moldings may be original, but I can’t imagine what else was. $8.5 million? What could they have been smoking when they picked that number?