House of the Day: 141 State Street
Excuse us while we wipe the drool from our mouth…This 25-foot-wide brownstone at 141 State Street, currently listed in the Marketplace, is gorgeous. There’s lots of original detail, including plaster moldings and nicely aged originally parlor floors. We also like the kitchen that overlooks the landscaped garden. The asking price ain’t nuthin’ ($4,300,000) but we’re…
Excuse us while we wipe the drool from our mouth…This 25-foot-wide brownstone at 141 State Street, currently listed in the Marketplace, is gorgeous. There’s lots of original detail, including plaster moldings and nicely aged originally parlor floors. We also like the kitchen that overlooks the landscaped garden. The asking price ain’t nuthin’ ($4,300,000) but we’re hearing that there’s already quite a bit of interest in the two-family pad. You like?
141 State Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
This house went into contract today, according to Streeteasy…this should be interesting
Invisible – no, the scanned i-cards are online at HPD for this address. Nice work on the C of O travails – it didn’t occur to me to look at the filed jobs.
Boerumresident – from the HPD site at nyc.gov:
“I-Card Images
HISTORICAL OCCUPANCY RECORDS (INITIAL INSPECTION CARDS)
The Department of Housing and Buildings was an agency of the City of New York responsible for building inspections and maintaining occupancy records. The agency maintained historical occupancy records called Initial Inspection cards (more commonly referred to as ‘I-cards’) which captured occupancy and arrangement information based on the initial inspection of the property by the agency and any subsequent applications filed with that agency during the late 1800s and early 1900s. For buildings without a Certificate of Occupancy (which was not required until 1938), the ‘I-cards’ have been accepted as the legal record of existing occupancy as of the last date indicated on the card. Buildings with I-cards may have more recent legal occupancy records if any lawful alteration or conversion work was performed in the building after the last date on the I-card. For information on alterations or conversions conducted since the last date on the I-card, Department of Buildings records should be consulted, since a Certificate of Occupancy may have been issued or additional plans may have been approved. Pursuant to the New York City Charter, if there is both an I-card and a Certificate of Occupancy for a building, the Certificate of Occupancy controls as to all matters set forth therein.”
What’s an i-card?
Northeights – did you call for the i-card?
Since that last thread which Boerumresident listed in Nov, they had their permit application disapproved for a C of O (again). Can’t tell why from the scribble. Looks like they hired Tom Van Den Bout in hopes of getting it through – their efforts to get one through in 2001 with Schnall was nixed also.
So this one definitely has hair on it and will not be getting a mortgage, all cash buyers only for now. I’d be circling this like a hawk if i had the cash, $2.9 to start.
Wondering out loud if the owner can’t afford financing to return this to a one-fam because i would think it would be more desirable at this price point anyways. The fact that its still on the market and paying to be listed on brownstoner makes me think seller needs to move this. But that’s just my first impression.
Brownstoner, you really need to stop pimping Brownstone market houses to be better than they are.
Too many smart people in here able who are more than happy to point out issues – lol the dob call from @NorthHeights for example.
I’m calling this at just under $3.5m max.
If I’m reading the online documents correctly, the garden rental is totally illegal. The HPD shows 1 unit and the i-card lists a 1-family residence (no C of O on file). DOB tried to cite them for “illegal conversion of the entire house” in September 2010 and was denied entry.
Caveat emptor, good luck getting a mortgage.
It’s Brooklyn Heights. The best.
A dream home.
hmmm, yeah, those price to rent ratios are out of whack for those upper east side $50 million townhouses too.
don’t those silly wealthy people know that luxury goods must all be correlated to a rental market? those price-to-picasso rentals are getting up there too. i better let people know.
my mind is too small to fathom that there are people who would want to live in a caste above me. surely their egos are not bigger than mine, i’m smarter than everyone on the subway. and they never mentioned that at my third-rate night college courses.
Nope, not federal. Although the floors are older plank pine, not typical of most brownstones.