So what’s the deal with this place. Us store- front renovation watchers want to know.
Is it really going to be a hot dog restaurant, as I heard last year. Is the renovation still going on? What’s the story here. Anyone know? It’s on Fifth Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets across from MS 51.
I know the realtor who sold the Montgomery Place property. She says that EVERYONE is WRONG WRONG WRONG about the buyer. It’s not the Bell you think it is. "Nobody knows these people. You can’t even google them," she said.
She didn’t tell me the name of the buyer because she was asked to keep it on the down low. Of course that’s pretty hard in these bloggy times. But a girl can try to keep her word.
My friend has been trying to sell this property since last November. The person who bought it saw the house then and was interested. He waited. He snared it. She is, obviously, thrilled to have sold the place. And she made a nice piece of change. She’s sharing the commission with another realtor. We’re proud of you, girlfriend.
The Safran-Foer-Krauss household must be SO relieved to not have the priciest residence in the SLOPE.
Yesterday, Brownstoner broke the exhilarating news
that the 31-foot beauty at 45 Montgomery Place had been sold for more
than $6 million. (Oval rooms! Fireplaces! It’s all there.)According to the website, $6m would be the highest price ever paid for a 1-family townhouse in Park Slope. New Yorkers everywhere asked: who is the lucky, oval-loving owner?
According to our calculations (i.e. according to city records), that
would be Gregory Bell, who bought the place for a clean $6,050,000.But is it the mathematician Greg Bell, who studied the Asymptotic Dimension of Groups? Or is it TV’s Gregory Bell? (He played Shakespeare in Dennis Hopper’s "Witch Hunt.") Or is it NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment, Mr. Robert Gregory Bell?
A group of Brooklyn property owners filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday in the hope of blocking the Atlantic Yards project.
The suit was announced a downtown rally.
The ten plaintiffs say the state is abusing its right of eminent domain to take their properties for the project.
They say eminent domain cannot be used to benefit a private developer, which is being done in the present case with Forest City Ratner.
"This is a textbook case of the government taking a person’s private property – their homes and their business – and giving it a private entity, a private company, Mr. Ratner, so that he can benefit," said plaintiff attorney Matthew Brinckerhoff. "And that is absolutely forbidden by the Constitution."
In response, Forest City Ratner released a statement saying "this is simply a sad attempt to delay a project that is supported by over 60% of Brooklyn."
Plans call for creating a 20,000 seat arena for the Nets basketball team and over 2,000 units of affordable housing.
The demolition of buildings on the site began months ago.
This from Brownstoner:
It took some time (almost a year) and a sizeable price reduction (over $1 million) but 45 Montgomery Place has finally sold. The tip we got said that the price was somewhere north of $6 million (compared to the initial asking price of $7.5 million), though nothing has shown up yet in the public records. If this is the case, we’re pretty sure this sets a single family townhouse record for Park Slope, topping last year’s Safran Foer transaction. According to the post we wrote last November, the 31-footer at 45 Montgomery Place has over 7,000 square feet of space with oval rooms that have rounded doors and radiators, a grand center staircase, multiple original fireplaces. Yum.
The property where Zuzu’s Petals, Olive Vine, and that Korean vegetable market used to be — where they had a fire in 2004 – it’s been sold. Big sign on it now. SOLD.
Anyone know what’s going in? My guess — four-story condo with a commercial ground floor. Anything but a real estate office, please.