August 14, 2005
Brooklyn sights
Nothing to do but blog in Brooklyn: Third Street.
It was on the Park Slope House Tour years and years ago. As
everyone knows, those house tours are a form of real estate porn.
You get to be a voyeur, to see what it looks like inside those
houses you walk by day after day. Fantasies abound as you pass.
Ah the envy, the longing, the sense that such wonderful lives
are lived beyond the stoops of those brownstone and limestone
glories.
and 718 Brooklyn with more pictures than stories.
(Another example of Transit as an organizing principle)
More random: Only the blog knows Brooklyn.
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May 04, 2005
HiFi NY
HiFi NY, wherein Randy Kim entertains himself.
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April 09, 2005
Brooklyn Squeeze
Brooklyn Squeeze's snapshot of the property market, 2005 January.
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February 03, 2005
Brooklyn heights townhouses
THE Manhattanization of Brooklyn took a great leap past the point of
no return recently when a brownstone on the promenade in Brooklyn
Heights went into contract for $8.5 million. Real estate brokers said
it was by far the highest price ever paid for a town house in the
borough.
The deal for the home at 212 Columbia Heights has quickened the pulses
of owners in the neighborhood, and already another brownstone, at 8
Montague Terrace, has gone on the market for $12 million (although it
is divided into several apartments); a brick town house at 82 Remsen
Street is being offered for $10 million.
The previous top sale for a Brooklyn Heights town house was $4.25
million, for a home on Henry Street that sold last year, according to
Frank Percesepe, the managing director of the Corcoran Group office in
the neighborhood.
BIG DEAL: $8.5 Million Brownstone Deal Raises the Bar in Brooklyn
The New York Times
2005 February 06, By WILLIAM NEUMAN
THE Manhattanization of Brooklyn took a great leap past the point of
no return recently when a brownstone on the promenade in Brooklyn
Heights went into contract for $8.5 million. Real estate brokers said
it was by far the highest price ever paid for a town house in the
borough.
The deal for the home at 212 Columbia Heights has quickened the pulses
of owners in the neighborhood, and already another brownstone, at 8
Montague Terrace, has gone on the market for $12 million (although it
is divided into several apartments); a brick town house at 82 Remsen
Street is being offered for $10 million.
The previous top sale for a Brooklyn Heights town house was $4.25
million, for a home on Henry Street that sold last year, according to
Frank Percesepe, the managing director of the Corcoran Group office in
the neighborhood.
Christopher Thomas, an executive vice president at Brown Harris
Stevens and the company's Brooklyn sales director, said the Columbia
Heights deal has prompted several other owners to consider selling.
"This is a number consistent with Manhattan Upper East or Upper West
Side," Mr. Thomas said. "But if you buy a house in those locations,
you're not going to have views of the Statue of Liberty and the sun
setting behind it. It's established a high water mark that has
transcended values that are typically associated with a particular
neighborhood."
The brownstone at 212 Columbia Heights is being bought by Nina Collins
and Marek Fludzinski, who agreed in December to pay the $8.5 million
asking price. Ms. Collins is co-owner of the Collins McCormick
Literary Agency, and Mr. Fludzinski is a founder of Thales Fund
Management, a hedge fund.
"It's a spectacular house," said their broker, Merele Williams-Adkins
of the Corcoran Group. "Incredible high ceilings, extraordinary
detail. The views are unbelievable."
The 25-foot -wide, five-story brownstone, which is between Pierrepont
and Clark Streets, needs a new kitchen and other renovations. It is
owned by Calvert Douglas Crary and Kinga P. Crary, who paid $55,000
when they bought it in 1972, according to a deed filed with the city.
A broker for the Crarys, Yolanda Johnson Vogelzang at the Corcoran
Group, did not return calls.
The "A.I.A. Guide to New York City" says the town house is one of four
in a row on Columbia Heights that it calls "the best remaining
examples of group mansions in brownstone."
The even-numbered houses on Columbia Heights back up against the
Brooklyn Heights promenade, which offers some of the borough's best
views of the Manhattan skyline. Ms. Collins and Mr. Fludzinski are
moving to Brooklyn from Manhattan, where they are selling their
current town house for $8 million.
The seven-floor Manhattan home, built by the architect John L.
Petrarca, uses geothermal heat and has seven bedrooms. It is at 152
Reade Street, in TriBeCa, and is listed with Ms. Williams-Adkins.
Among the homes at the top of the Heights market, one of the more
interesting is 82 Remsen, which is owned by the sculptor Neil Estern.
It is 37½ feet wide and sits on a 150-foot lot with a carriage house
at the back end, on Grace Court Alley. Its real estate broker, Kevin
J. Carberry, said the four-story main house, which was built in 1837,
contains about 10,000 square feet, divided between two apartments.
Among other works, Mr. Estern is known for his bronze sculpture of the
seated President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Roosevelt Memorial in
Washington.
[NYT]
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