Downtown Townhouse Sets Record

1.

Not crazy about the modern interior - why buy an 1847 townhouse if that's what you want?

2.

Why would someone renovate a brownstone in 2000 and pretend it is 1847?

3.

Why would you renovate it in the first place? By your logic, everyone living in a 19th century building is "pretending to live in the 19th century." Which, needless to say, is asinine.

4.

Forget the zeitgeist debate and talk about the character and quality -- the interior looks like a suburban office building.

And not an expensive one, either.

5.

They're not buying because they want to live in period style, they're buying because they want a private home of that quality and size in that location. There ARE no contemporary private homes of that size in that location...

6.

Fair enough, but a good part of the reason why the location is so desirable in the first place is because of the 19th century architecture. There are other places to build large, modern, private homes downtown, and some people are doing just that.

7.

I have to say, for that price, I would want a place to park my car/s.

8.

you people are nuts. this place is amazing hands down, it is pretty freakin' cool. and i am sure it would not take much for you to live there if it was offered.

9.

#7- If you could afford that place, you can afford to pay for a garage.

10.

The apocalypse is here.

11.

If you can afford that place- you have a driver.

12.

Fools. Some renter was going to pick this up for $100K when the market cools.

13.

I take no offense to the comments about the look (pro and con), but I do feel compelled to point out that keeping the 1847 look was not an option

It was a 38 room NYU dorm when we bought it and it looked like hell

It was a gut renovation no matter what style you like

Fred

14.

Fred, you could have run a rooming house and made a lot more money! ;)

15.

Fred, now you have to take the money and buy another property. Where will you buy next?

16.

that's already happened. fortunately the public records are not going to be so obvious this time

17.

So Fred, you're not calling the top in Manhattan real estate, just recycling the money into another development project?