A Tale of Two Brownstones: 192 and 194 Columbia Heights
Eye On Real Estate: One's for sale for $16 Million, the other's got bricked-up windows
This is a tale of two brownstones. What will prospective buyers of what could be Brooklyn’s priciest house make of it?
One of them is pristine 192 Columbia Heights – a magnificent, manicured 1850s brownstone with six bedrooms that’s for sale at an asking price of $16 million – which would be a record for Brooklyn if that’s what’s paid.
The other, right next door, is 194 Columbia Heights – padlocked, long vacant, with bricked-up and boarded-up windows facing the famed Promenade, widely considered to be one of landmarked Brooklyn Heights’ most mistreated properties.
In April, The New York Times announced that gorgeous, historic 192 Columbia Heights was headed for the sale market. The story made no mention of the problem property next door, and instead noted 192 Columbia Heights’ “premier location on a pin-drop quiet block.”