It was less than a year ago—in August 2012—when the 7,400sf, three-story, 45-foot-wide modernist mansion at 40 Willow Place sold for a wicked $7.35 million—a mere shaving off its October 2011 list price of $7.5M. Curbed reports that “Brooklyn’s most valuable townhouse” has again changed hands. About four months ago, it was back on the […]
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NY Observer’s Deep Dish On Willowtown Mansion Sale
The manse at 40 Willow Place that sold for $7.3M, as we reported Tuesday, gets a deeper look in a story published by the New York Observer. It begins: “The modern masterpiece may not be able to command a sales price like some of its Brooklyn Heights neighbors—to wit, Truman Capote’s old abode at 70 […]
Pierrepont’s Beloved Herman Behr Mansion Shrouded In Netting
One of Brooklyn Heights’ mightiest architectural triumphs, the Romanesque Revival Herman Behr Mansion at 82 Pierrepont Street—which changed hands in 2008 for $10.98 million—has been covered in netting, as it undergoes a mass of restoration to its facade. It was built in 1888 by architect Frank Freeman for $80,000, and named after the mining industrialist […]
Brighton Beach $14M ‘Mansion’ Listing Humbles Heights’ 2012 Multi-Mill $ales Records
Take that, 36 Garden Place. A 9,200-square foot single-family home at 2134 Ocean Parkway bordering Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay has trumped Brooklyn Heights as the double-digit million dollar borough capital. The “palatial” property has an asking price of a whopping $14 million: $4 million more than Brooklyn’s previous record-setting Garden Place listing, which hit the […]
Gabriel Kahane’s ‘February House’ Personifies 7 Middagh Street’s 1940s’ ‘Bohemian Commune’
Burgeoning eclectic classical composer & performer Gabriel Kahane is featured in a lengthy profile in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, titled “Gabriel Kahane Is a One-Man Cultural Cuisinart.” The 30-year-old resident of Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, composed music & lyrics for “February House” (see previous BHB post here), based on the true story of the […]
Capote House Buyer ID’d As Grand Theft Auto Designer
The New York Observer identifies the buyer of 70 Willow Street as Dan Houser, creator of the popular Grand Theft Auto series of video games, and co-founder of Rockstar Games. The Observer story notes that the seller, Nicholas Callaway, a long time publisher of coffee-table books, is also involved in the digital world, having started […]
Capote House on Willow Sells for $12 Million
The yellow house at 70 Willow Street where Truman Capote once lived has been sold after being on the market since May of 2010.
27 Cranberry: McMansion for Moderns
The lot at 27 Cranberry Street will be home to a “modern” structure if new owner developer Louis Greco and “architect of the year” Martin Santini get their way. CB2’s Land Use Committee has approved the design which reports say is a four story single family home with a glass facade not to mention an […]
BHA House Tour in three weeks!
The annual Brooklyn Heights Association house tour is on May 9, and event organizers are ramping up the day’s activities. If anyone is interested in volunteering or baking items for the Plymouth Church tea during the tour, email BHA executive director Judy Stanton at 718-858-9193 or email at bkhtsassoc AT aol.com. Organizers vowed that this […]
This Year’s BHA House Tour Featured Architectural Hot Potato, Bossert Lobby
This year’s Brooklyn Heights House Tour featured many great properties and provided guests with a peek inside the exquisite lobby of the Bossert Hotel. If you were on the tour, please post your comments below.
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