House of the Day: 280 Washington Avenue
As close watchers of the market will remember, this mansion at 280 Washington Avenue, one of a pair built by the Pfizers in 1888, was listed at $3.595 million in January 2005 before disappearing a couple months later. Now it has resurfaced, again with Corcoran, at the asking price of $3.995 million, which is a…
As close watchers of the market will remember, this mansion at 280 Washington Avenue, one of a pair built by the Pfizers in 1888, was listed at $3.595 million in January 2005 before disappearing a couple months later. Now it has resurfaced, again with Corcoran, at the asking price of $3.995 million, which is a smaller percentage increase than the overall Clinton Hill market in the past year. The house is mind-blowing in its detail, grandeur and condition. The real constraining factor is whether there are any people wealthy enough to buy it who are cool enough to be down with Clinton Hill!
280 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Pfizer Mansion Hitting Market [Brownstoner]
I agree, Gurple. Anon is yanking your chain. Let it be. I make a motion that “henceforth the term “elite” shall be forever banned from this blogsite!” Same goes for you Yuppie snobs! Off with your heads! >;-0
As much as you might disdain Yuppies, Gurple, I seriously doubt that CTs alone could have created the outrageous escalating rise in property values in recent years or could have promoted the growth and development of Downtown Brooklyn to the extent that it exist today. So Yuppies and CTs unite. You guys really do need each other……
Just a bit of social commentary, that’s all. But now I feel inadequate for not having a punchline. However, that’s why I’m in the capital-creation field, and am not a CT.
I think he/she is just f-ing with us, gurple. It’s kinda rad. I’m waiting for the punchline. But it is cute that I’m being called elite by being on this site. I got a chuckle out of it, if nothing else.
Man I hope some of the arrogance on display here is a joke. I wouldn’t want all the money in the world if I had to take on the soulless,depraved,and utterly disgusting personas of those of you who feel that Brooklyn is being “socially cleansed”. Please move you your “elite suburbs” as soon as humanly possible so that those of us who live in NYC because we simply enjoy being here can get on with it.
To Anon 12:41
‘None’ is not exactly correct. I met a couple recently who have been in their loft on W.B’way near Canal since the ’70s. Certainly very few.
ps. And as far as being sent, I think it’s more that we’re being followed. Poor example to set your spawn, if you ask me.
By the time you’ve exploited what the CTs have created to its full potential, it’s so devoid of any reason to stay that money isn’t even a factor in our finding a new home.
CT’s are the ground troops that are sent into an area. After you create the initial settlements and make things habitable, we YES’s move in and you guys are sent off to the next frontier. How many CT’s are left in SoHo or Tribecca? None. The same will be true in Brooklyn in no time at all.
Gurple, sorry for offending your sensibilities. Perhaps I should’ve written “elite” suburbs to denote the obvious fact that the term is not considered a universal truth. Nevertheless, it’s all relative and it certainly depends on your personal point of view. People in East New York, Brownsville or other sections of Brooklyn could very well refer to the nabes that comprise Downtown Brooklyn as elite communities. The nomenclature wouldn’t offend me one bit. If folks who are paying $2m-$15m plus for homes in Brownstone Brooklyn, i.e., bloggers on this site, are not elite then what are they? Average Joes?