Tasteful Friends - Feast your eyes on this NYC Gothic townhouse

There is no fucking way this is a Dutch house.

This guy can barely fucking talk.

"Limestoning"? "Hishtory"?

Lol what a big lunk. He thought the exposed wooden lathe was bricks.

How much?

Not a Dutch house, not 400 years old. It was a mid-Victorian period Gothic Revival style townhouse, exoticized with Gothic and Dutch and eclectic design elements by its architect/owner in 1910 and, yes, moved -- blocks away, not oceans away. There's nothing 17thC about it except some borrowed design ideas expressed in the 1840s and then in the 20thC.

It's a great house. I would love to have it and the revival style and detailing suits me, but it didn't travel oceans and centuries to arrive in NYC.

This realtor has the disease of his trade, mistaking selling houses for knowing anything about architectural history.

At link, a better description of the background of the house from a good source, the blog of Daytonian in Manhattan

Love the neighborhood-would. Be my choice with a lottery win

He's super sexy.

R7 what's a s retraction?

Yeah, whu-dat?

What's an s-retraction?

Ask Lisha!

Can I have the park key which the buyer won't need?

TIA

It’s not on the park, so no park key.

Super cool house, love all the ornate carving, even if it isnt as old as the realtor thinks it is as R4 points out. The staging is all wrong too

"Masonary" is not a word, shtupid.

If I'm going to spend that kind of money on a house it's not going to have window A/C units.

He's just too damn tall. He doesn't walk, he lopes.

He said "rod iron."

It's "wrought iron," imbecile.

Oh, and it's "lenGth" - not "lenth."

Is English his second language?

Wonder what he looks like naked? Yum.

There are so many slick NYC realtors who talk with all the confidence as though they might know something, but the words are just an insane hash of mistruths, myths, and mangled words.

i couldn´t find the video again on Instagram but there was a realtor showing off someone else´s listing in his chatty video of one of the early 20thC artists´studio apartment off CPW. He insisted that the artist whose apartment it was originally imported all of the antique woodwork from Europe. The woodwork would have been spanking new at at the time, and readily available from a great number of sources in NYC. Sure enough, the woodwork looks American, not European. It´s nice, typical of rich artist´s and artistic types´houses and studios at the period, I would be thrilled to have it, but it wasn´t imported as antique goods from across an ocean. And the style of the fireplace? 'Boronal.' I listed 3 times and that´ñs waht he said, with more than a little pride of having done so, too. Defintely not Baronial. Maybe he borrowed from 'moronical' and 'baronial' for an on the fly portmanteau in which he put a bit of himself.

(Listing below if you want to see this newly coined style in the double0height studio room.)

R20 realtor may be (and probably is) an idiot but that is a beautiful property. Looks a bit Arts and Crafts to me, but whatever it is its fantastic

Agreed, R21. It's a great property, no less so for the stupid realtor in the IG video I lost. I like that it's not been stripped and tarted up in the latest taste. For me, always better to make my own restoration than to buy and undo someone else's bad renovation. The double0height room is fantastic, and the kitchen could be with some small changes. And the other rooms are good and offer much flexibility of how to use the space.

I could be comfortable living there.

Sorry it took me a while to get back to those of you who asked what an s-retraction is. It’s a technical term that refers to a certain speech mannerism that I have always thought made any person who uses it sound kind of not too smart:

So sexy yet so DUMB. Flood risk. Invitation to rats and vermin.

lenth for length and prolly for probably. Interesting speech tics.

I feel trashy now. I say shtring and lenth too! I always thought the g was silent. And how do you say string without making a sh sound? I can't do it.

R27 bring the tip of your tongue down to the base of your mouth (behind your lower incisors). At least that's how I do it.

Spooky. I'll pass.