House of the Day: 66 Midwood Street
If you’re looking for a pricey house on Midwood Street in PLG, now’s your moment! We’ve already mentioned three houses asking at least $1,500,000–#20, #22, #77–and now there’s a fourth: 66 Midwood. At $1,849,00, it’s the most expensive of the four and, we believe, the most expensive in the neighborhood ever! Not surprisingly, the woodwork…
If you’re looking for a pricey house on Midwood Street in PLG, now’s your moment! We’ve already mentioned three houses asking at least $1,500,000–#20, #22, #77–and now there’s a fourth: 66 Midwood. At $1,849,00, it’s the most expensive of the four and, we believe, the most expensive in the neighborhood ever! Not surprisingly, the woodwork and other interior details are to die for and the Romanesque Revival exterior is pretty impressive too. These are big numbers to try and fetch this far out though so we shall see.
66 Midwood Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
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my kitchen is 24k gold with orchids growing from the counters…
i cant tell if youre serious or not hahahahah. you could very well be serious. if you are PLEASE post a link to a pic of it!?
*rob*
I have to agree that the kitchen is not bad. It has more than enough room for cooking and it is very bright. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, too many of the really fabulous kitchens I’ve seen seem to be meant for looking at, not for actually being used. My own preference is for an actual, large, comfortable kitchen table and not an island, but otherwise, I like this room. As far as I’m concerned, the place for fine cabinetry is in the living, dining, or bedrooms. In a kitchen in which one actually cooks, the cabinetry just gets greasy and dirty.
While the decor in the rest of the house is hardly my own taste and is certainly over the top, I’m sure the place is not being sold furnished. I would have really liked to see pics of the bathrooms, but it is nice to see more than just the master bedroom. As to price, however … asking prices are really nuts these days.
“Once you cross Nostrand you are the East Flatbush, thats only 2 blocks away!”
Actually East Flatbush/Wingate is across New York Avenue, all of three blocks away–BUT they’re VERY long blocks and it’s a very different neighborhood.
The Howchow catalog look is too bad (and my dad had that same temptress in a neglige painting that appears on slide No. 6 in 1973) and probably won’t help sell the place. But it can easily be done away with physically if the buyer can scrub it from their mind mentally. I bet the bathrooms and passthroughs are marvelous, since it sounds like they are original.
The finishes are extremely underwhelming given the pie in the sky asking price. Price needs to come down significantly before this attracts any serious attention.
Babs’ estimate didn’t include walking time but she is right that it’s quicker to get to PLG than much of Park Slope.
According to Hopstop.com, it takes 32 minutes DOOR to DOOR including walking to get from Union Square to 66 Midwood. In comparison, it would take 40 minutes to get from Union Square to 6th St and 7th Ave in Park Slope (also a few blocks from the subway to make a fair comparison).
i’m not a huge fan of the kitchen but it’s an overstatement to say it needs to be torn out. Some minor changes like new cabinet doors could bring the appearance of the kitchen in line with the asking price.
“not the worst kitchen ever, just not a 2 million dollar kitchen.”
i have to agree. if you’re asking big bucks at least look the part.
Furnishings are kinda oppresive but easily fixed and as a plus you could start a catering operation in the kitchen.
my kitchen is 24k gold with orchids growing from the counters…
not the worst kitchen ever, just not a 2 million dollar kitchen