If you have a lot of money and yearn to escape to the country without leaving East Ninth Street, then — well!
This house between Avenue A and First Avenue might be for you!
To the Town listing:
Country-House-in-the-City + location, location, location! Prime East Village Entire 4 story historic Manhattan Townhouse + Enormous densely green garden on one of the best East Village blocks. Walking distance to Astor Place, Union Square and major subway lines. This 6 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms house can be a 1 family or 2 family. Features include gorgeous floor to ceiling French windows, Classic parlor floor dining/living room with high ceilings, diagonally laid Victorian wood floors & the French windows... large, sunny extra atelier or work room. Available furnished or partially furnished. Country House in City is perfect description.
This unique house has been featured in Law & Order and movies.
And the asking price? $14,000. [Added: A month to rent.]
Or you could just take Metro North to, say, Sloatsburg for the weekend.
14k? Sold!! I suspect a few zeros are missing.
ReplyDelete@ Jason
ReplyDeleteAh! $14,000 is the rent for a month! I added that in brackets!
...if you have to ask, you can't afford it (as that old saying goes.) It is a cute house...but...gees.
ReplyDeleteThe outdoor seating looks like crappy stuff though which is weird considering how much cashola must have gone into that house.
ReplyDeleteI was just looking at listings in northern New Hampshire where you can literally buy a house and land for that amount.
ReplyDeleteI love how the realtors describe it as 4 storey - when the pictures clearly show a 3 storey building with a basement/cellar.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they lie so blatantly? Oh, yes, they are realtors
Thank you Grieveipedia.
ReplyDeleteWell if it's a country house in the city, screw the extra atelier...turn it into a tool shed. You'll need a place for the lawn mower and stuff.
ReplyDeleteMeh. Doesn't have a slide.
ReplyDeleteThat looks so pretty and peaceful. That's what people used to crave in NYC, a peaceful place with strong walls to insulate them from the outside hustle and bustle. Now there are so many windows in new buildings it's like you're living in a diorama or maybe a cage at the zoo.
ReplyDeleteIt was no doubt originally a single-family house, but probably was used as a mulitple dwelling for 150 years. This is the fourth multiple dwelling in this neighborhood being refitted as a single-family house (not including the Death Star which may still have a chance of attracting offices).
ReplyDeleteIs this the future of the neighborhood? Are we becoming Greenwich Village? This is not middle class talking here. This is 1% slumming.
Dunno, Rob. Maybe the Death Star will become a single family power dwelling one of these days. With a slide for Goggla's visits.
ReplyDeleteYou know the old saw, People who live in glass houses shouldn't put the slide facing the window.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a slide will be installed after all...
ReplyDeletehttp://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/01/02/actor_alan_cumming_buys_east_village_townhouse_for_465m.php