Open House Picks
Cobble Hill 54 Cheever Place Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 12-1:30 $1,800,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 206 Maple Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 1:30-3 $1,325,000 GMAP P*Shark Bay Ridge 314 89th Street Jabour Realty Sunday 1-3 $795,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 268 Van Buren Street Corley RE Sunday 12:30-2:30 $529,000 GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
54 Cheever Place
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,800,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
206 Maple Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 1:30-3
$1,325,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bay Ridge
314 89th Street
Jabour Realty
Sunday 1-3
$795,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
268 Van Buren Street
Corley RE
Sunday 12:30-2:30
$529,000
GMAP P*Shark
DT, close to it, yeah. If you bought an unrenovated house on the block you would have to spend about $500K to get a gut-renovated house with these same amenities and a landscaped garden. There’s an unrenovated house exact same original layout on the block for sale now for $799K. I would imagine one could get it for a bit less, say $750K. Then add $500K. That’s $1.25mm. Then add rent or mortgage to pay for wherever you’re living for the 12-18 months the work is being done.
brucef,
You CAN hear the BQE on Cheever Place.
I went to the Cheever Place open house yesterday. Even in FRONT of the home (which is the side of the home that is further from the BQE) noise from the BQE is prominant. I was very surprised. THE ENTIRE STREET SOUNDS LIKE IT HAS A GIANT WHITE-NOISE MACHINE HOVERING OVERHEAD. Inside the home, I could not hear any BQE noise. (The windows were shut). As for the backyard, the realtor had a waste can place in front of the door leading to the backyard, and I wasn’t interested enough to either violate this suggestion that access the to backyard was not permitted, or to find the realtor to ask. But because you can hear the BQE when you’re in front of the house, I’m sure the noise was even more prominant in the backyard.
In response to questions regarding traffic noise from BQE, bear in mind some factors.
Noise is in this case line of site. The means that a building adjacent to the “trench” will have little noise on the first floor, but more of a problem in higher floors.
Extending the same logic, a home on Cheeer will have no highway noise as sound would have to travel through many feet of solid earth, which it doesn’t do very well.
Unless there is a direct visual path like a missing building on Hicks St for the sound to travel through, you probably would not be able to detect any noise at all.
Cheever Pl is a gem in a great neighborhood, sorry I never saw the house in question.
Traditionalmod, I agree with everything you say, but is it really worth $300,000 more?
That Maple street house is a beauty but well out of my price range, but I’m not in the market anyways. I live in the area, in fact on Maple and will be rooting for this one, but I think it should be priced under a million.
Pottery Barn v. Knoll
Ikea v. Bo Concept
Gap v. Banana Republic
Brownstoner v. Curbed
Get the picture?
I agree. Put another way, 212 Midwood is very Park Slope. 206 Maple Street is very Park Avenue.
DT, the 212 Midwood house is nice, but the Maple street house has a 3rd huge bathroom, central air, forced air heat not radiators and a lot more kitchen. The Midwood house skimped on cabinets and counter space in the kitchen didn’t they. Also Maple St has Viking appliances not LG. Midwood is great but there’s a reason for the price difference between the two.
> It looks like I won’t be bullied into apologizing for
> bringing up race and home valuation. Nor should I.
What, you’re sitting on the edge of your own seat waiting to see what you’re going to do? Oh, the suspense already.