According to various news sources (including Curbed and New York Magazine), Brooklyn’s biggest real estate sale of the year was in Gravesend. An 8,200 square foot house known as “Gravesend House” was recently sold for $10,260,000. Yes, those are millions.
This came as a complete shock to me personally, because I live in a very different kind of Gravesend: a Gravesend of 99 cent stores, constantly closing businesses, children asking strangers on the street for money for school supplies, and a tenacious stray cat population. This cloistered part of the neighborhood, where people buy houses worth six figures, feels like it exists in another world.
Unless DUMBO’s Clock Tower Penthouse gets sold (for $25 million), it appears the sale of Gravesend House will remain Brooklyn’s biggest sale of 2009. To provide some contrast to the above picture of Gravesend House (not taken by me), here is a picture (taken by me) of one of the most recent soon-to-be-closing businesses in the area :
on Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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