$1,175,000
Updated 6 years ago
Sold

221 Cornelia Street

Bushwick, Brooklyn | Central Ave & Wilson Ave

12 Rooms5 Beds2.5 Baths3,420 Square FeetMulti-Family

$1,175,000
floors / apts3 / 2
Lot Size19'x100'
Built Size19'x45'
ZoneR6
Building TypeTownhouse
RE Taxes$2,363
Price Per SF
$344

This property was sold for $1,175,000 on 09/23/20.

Listing Features

  • Original Details

Outdoor space and views

  • Backyard

Property Description for 221 Cornelia Street

Don't miss the opportunity to own your own entire townhouse for the price of a two-bedroom condo!
Nestled on a tree-lined street in prime Bushwick, 221 Cornelia Street is turnkey and move-in ready. With a flexible layout, it offers the enterprising buyer an affordable opportunity to re-design a custom one-or-two family home to live in for a lifetime. This is the perfect property for a buyer looking to showcase their own taste rather than being stuck with someone else's design, but on a manageable scale that won't take forever.
The house comes with some lovely original details, in addition to a huge back yard and a fantastic location. Offering 2,565 sq. ft. over three floors of comfortable living space plus an unfinished basement with an additional 855 sq. ft., this spacious and charming home is a legal 2-family with separate meters separated that is presently being utilized as a single family by its current owners.
The garden level is currently being used as an artist workspace with all the connections in place for you to build out a second kitchen. A separate laundry combined powder room with full size washer and dryer appliances provide added convenience. Step out into a spacious, peaceful garden with mature plants and trees, including lovely roses in full bloom.
The parlor level features two bedrooms with a beautiful home office masterfully outfitted with original built-ins and glass shelving, French doors, tin ceilings, and a decorative fireplace perfectly restored along with a newly renovated bathroom. The second floor is a fully renovated, turnkey floor-through two-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and bathroom and features a decorative fireplace, original French doors and hardware.
You should really do a virtually walk through of this home to understand its unique potential. When redesigned this home makes a picture perfect two-family, four-bedroom PLUS townhouse with the parlor and garden levels converted into a generous size owner's unit with a floor through master suite and access to the private garden and the second floor as the income producing rental unit.
A selection of original details remain intact and have been meticulously restored including original French doors, door hardware, fireplace mantles, exposed beams, a dramatic staircase, and high ceilings. East and West exposure guarantees great light all day on all floors. Set nicely back from the street you can indulge in landscaping both your front and back yards and also enjoy extra privacy. And don't miss the incredibly low taxes of only $2,332 per YEAR! Install a new efficient heating and cooling system, and the monthly cost to run this house will be lower than a small condo.

Bushwick provides a friendly communal atmosphere; surrounded by creativity, bohemian vibes and the energy of a culturally diverse community offering superb dining, craft cocktail joints, homemade marketplaces, cutting edge art galleries, music venues, and wide range of eclectic destination hang-outs. Local favorites include: Bushwick Public House, Maite, Archie's, Mominette, Arepera Guacuco, Dweebs, Bossa Nova Civic Club, El Cortez, Mood Ring, Foster Sundry, Dillinger's, Roberta's, Momo Sushi and Sunrise/ Sunset. Transportation: L at Halsey is only 3 blocks away, the L/M at Myrtle-Wyckoff a mere 4 blocks, and just 3 blocks to the J at Halsey, allowing for a myriad of options for an easy commute to Manhattan.

Listing History for 221 Cornelia Street

Now
09/23/2020
$1,175,000
Sold and Closed by Allison Dubuisson
Douglas Elliman
07/14/2020
Contract Signed by Allison Dubuisson
Douglas Elliman

Building Details for 221 Cornelia Street

OwnershipMulti-Family
Building TypeTownhouse
AgePre-War
AccessWalk-up
Year Built1910
Floors/Apts3/2
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Transit and Citi Bike

Subway

Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
0.45 miles
Halsey St
0.49 miles

Citi Bike

Central Ave & Woodbine St
0.16 miles
Central Ave & Weirfield St
0.18 miles

Contact Agents

Contact Agents

Allison Dubuisson
Douglas Elliman
John Gomes
Douglas Elliman
Fredrik Eklund
Douglas Elliman

Bushwick | Brooklyn

Quick Profile

As one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York, Bushwick offers a perfect snapshot of just how multicultural the city is. Long-established as an amalgam of cultures and ethnicities, a wave of varying types of immigrants trickled in from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, with Bushwick largely becoming a home to Hispanics of Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds by the latter part of the twentieth century. 

With the Bushwick Initiative of the mid-00s that aided in revitalization, it became an attractive area to young professionals and artists. And even now, Bushwick has sustained affordable rent prices where other North Brooklyn counterparts, like Williamsburg and Greenpoint, have become more expensive. Priding itself on the weird and the wacky, numerous art collectives thrive in this part of Brooklyn, once famously named the seventh coolest neighborhood in the world by Vogue. 

Though it has drawn in many tourists in recent years (there’s even a graffiti tour you can take from the Bushwick Collective), the neighborhood remains very much community-oriented, and has not been subject to quite the same sort of corporate infiltration phenomenon of its nearby Williamsburg environs. 

But yes, of course, Bushwick has come a very long way from its 80s and 90s reputation as being “The Well,” a nickname given to it for its free-flowing and widely available amount of drugs (quantity over quality being the cliche applied here). 

All information furnished regarding property for sale, rental or financing is from sources deemed reliable, but no warranty or representation is made as to the accuracy thereof and same is submitted subject to errors, omissions, change of price, rental or other conditions, prior sale, lease or financing or withdrawal without notice. All dimensions are approximate. For exact dimensions, you must hire your own architect or engineer.
OLR ID: 78915TH