Open House Picks 10/16/09
Park Slope 44 Prospect Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-3:30 $1,995,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 318 1st Street FSBO Sunday 12-2 $1,795,001 (was $2,300,000) GMAP P*Shark Windsor Terrace 1692 11th Avenue Warren Lewis Sunday 12-2 $1,295,000 GMAP P*Shark Red Hook 116 Pioneer Street Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $949,000 GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
44 Prospect Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-3:30
$1,995,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
318 1st Street
FSBO
Sunday 12-2
$1,795,001 (was $2,300,000)
GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
1692 11th Avenue
Warren Lewis
Sunday 12-2
$1,295,000
GMAP P*Shark
Red Hook
116 Pioneer Street
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$949,000
GMAP P*Shark
In France, they cook everything before the party, then reheat. No guest would dream of venturing into the kitchen. Well, so I read in books. I haven’t been to France in years.
Wasn’t it Plato who said “Men longing for solitude prefer closed kitchens. Men longing for socialization prefer open kitchens.”
Or, was it Socrates?
Pioneer Street is cute, a little gritty and has that old world charm, I think.
I have rode my bicycle there several times and felt safe. I kinda liked the block.
There is no trains around though, which kinda sucks. The whole area is a little desolate which can be a good/ bad thing depending on what you like. The pj’s are near by. Ikea plaza is close, that is nice.
I did not like the layout of the home on Pioneer, the Bathroon upstairs had a seperate toilet area and across the hall was the tub. Don’t think so, not to mention no window, yuck.
I too do not like the open kitchen at all. When I am in my living room, I like to think relaxing, comfort, serenity.
I see my kitchen as kaos, cooking, washing machine going, computer, there is always something going on, because that is what a kitchen is for.
and why no, in the year 2009 are people so worried about talking to thier guests while they are cooking…. hopefully my guests will just come over and bringfood, and I could just eat it… LOL
went to the windsor terrace one just because it’s nearby. it wasn’t too impressive. it needs a total (or near total) gut renovation, especially if converting to a 2 family. from the look of the facade, building has some serious settling issues with cracking, etc. the internal staircase is so narrow that even a skinny individual would feel cramped. i’d be surprised if this goes far north of 7 figures.
Question about Pioneer St — we had toyed with Red Hook before buying in Clinton Hill, but I had heard all of those homes have flooded basements when it rains. Is that still true?
Nomi,
Yup. I’m a dying breed, a Red Hook born and raised Nuyorican.
“I just don’t care for when the kitchen feels like it is IN the living room, and the island seems plunked down like another piece of furniture.”
Exactly, Nomi. That’s what I hate about that kind of kitchen too. Those kitchens look tacked-on and plunked-down. Like an alien has landed. The newly built condos never have proper kitchens, it’s just a corner of the living room designated as the “kitchen”, with no space for a dining table without cutting into the LR space pretty significantly. I really love having a separate formal DR. Sure, I would ideally like to have both a big farmhouse style eat-in kitchen that overlooks a family TV room, AND a formal DR and formal LR, who wouldn’t. But that layout being rare and extravagant in NYC, I choose separate DR even if it means a smaller, closed off kitchen.
Cannot get enough of these kitchen musings. I like a 19th c or 1920s style kitchen that fits at least three, has two doors, and fits into the traffic circulation of the house. People can come and hang out there with you if they want, and the baby can be in a playpen.
I think the issue with the 1st St house is not so much the superficial renovation choices but the layout. I don’t see a floorplan with the current listing but from what I remember it doesn’t work particularly well as a one or two family home.