Brooklyn Heights

Clinton Street house for sale has a three-car garage

Eye On Real Estate: And other noteworthy details about Brooklyn Heights homes for sale

May 25, 2016 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The house on the corner of this leafy block is 151 Clinton St., which is for sale. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan
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Behold the Holy Grail for parking-space-starved Brooklynites: A three-car garage.

For some prospective buyers, that may be all they need to know about the house for sale at 151 Clinton St. in Brooklyn Heights.

Don’t misunderstand us. The property, which is on the corner of Schermerhorn Street, is a stunning brick house that was built in the early 1850s. It is located in the landmarked part of the neighborhood.

It has three working wood-burning fireplaces.

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Those things are important to well-heeled home-shoppers.

But we all know the parking situation is complicated on New York City streets, and there are residents who pay big bucks for spaces in parking facilities. Getting a three-car garage of your very own in a Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood is like being guaranteed a free lifetime supply of caviar.  

The asking price for 151 Clinton is $8.25 million, listing brokerage Corcoran Group’s website indicates.

The sellers are Kenneth D. Mann Jr. and Gwen P. Mann, city Finance Department records indicate. Kenneth goes by the name Tod. Previous owners were John. H Watts III and Martha M. Watts, Finance Department records indicate.

He’s a co-founder of global investment-management firm Fischer Francis Trees & Watts (FFTW), which is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. At the time of FFTW’s founding in 1972, its specialty as an active manager of institutional investors’ fixed-income portfolios was unique, the firm’s website notes.

There are so many noteworthy Brooklyn Heights homes for sale. Here are two others we’ve been thinking about:

* Brown Harris Stevens is now a co-broker of the Low Mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place.

The asking price for the 50-room, 1850s-vintage brownstone on the Promenade remains a jaw-dropping $40 million. The Corcoran Group, which brought it to market in February 2015, is the other co-broker.  

* A handsome row of Greek Revival-style brick houses has stood on Sidney Place since the 1840s.

One of them, 37 Sidney Place, which has an especially eye-catching front garden and five wood-burning fireplaces, is for sale. The asking price is $10.75 million. Halstead has the listing.

Finance Department records identify the sellers as Ashok Vasvani and Bansie Vasvani, who have owned 37 Sidney Place since 1999.

 


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