Reference   19464
 

Contemporary house in New York City with garden

North America / United States / New York / Brookyn


Close To   New York ( Kms)
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Description

Our house is located in Brooklyn Heights (1 subway stop from Manhattan or a 20 minute walk across the Brooklyn bridge). The house offers the best of a quiet environment together with the proximity of buzzing New York and forth coming Brooklyn.
The house is in a quiet tree-lined street, just a block away from trendy Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue with its bars, restaurants and designers stores (unfortunately a new hot spot for bus touring...).
The house itself was recently featured in Teva Deco (a trendy French TV serie) for its contemporary renovation and american artwork collection (we are active art collectors).
The house is a typical New York brownstone but was recently renovated with a contemporary flair (loft like open space in the first floor and some designer furniture). We also have a garden and lots of bird singing...
Our House has 3 floors. The parlor floor is about 1200 sq feet (about 100 m2) with a huge living room, a modern kitchen and a dining room that opens to a terrace (with another dining table) and stairs to the garden. Upper two floors offer 5 bedrooms and two bathrooms and another terrace from a bedroom with chairs and flowers...

Neighborhood

We just love Brooklyn and our street...Lots of trees, front yard gardens, amazing birds and very few traffic. It is completly secluded from the noise and activity of Manhattan while at the same time just one subway stop away from downtown Manhattan (or a 20 minute walk across the brooklyn bridge...a must to do especially at down/night), and plenty of taxis (just raise your hands....). Subway transportation is just 2 blocks away (3 minutes walk at most) with the R, 4,5,2,3 or A, C, F, G trains... Being both French natives, we also love the convenience of local shops that offer any french products you want (cheeses, croissants, baguettes), the local farmer market held twice a week, the butcher, fish shop, vegetable and organic shops. But what made us stay in Brooklyn is the tremendous energy there (from designers places to restaurants and bars) as well as the local playgrounds (so many around which were great for our three children)....

About Us

We are a family of five (3 kids: 2 daughters: 12, 10 years old and a 5 years old boy). We are French and have been in NY for about 14 years... Before we had kids we lived in different cities in Asia and in London... We both work in finance but our passion is art (which is why we have a lot of art works in our house)... I love the idea of swapping a house (even though the anxiety of swapping our main house is high...especially for my husband..but I guess that the right place will help us get over it !!!).
We want to exchange our house for 2 weeks or even more during the summer 2009 (preferably in France but are open to Asia as we want to bring our children there so that they can experience it too.... We are looking to swap a big house as we usually invite our parents with us to have some bounding time.... Other holidays could work too (but would have to be 1 week/10 days school break: christmas, february or April....).

Destination

simultaneous exchange or not possible. Preferably summer 2009 but other dates possible (school holidays).
For the summer, we are looking for a 2 weeks minimum swap, with house with a minimum of 5 bedrooms and a swimming pool or sea nearby...
Other holidays (school calendar), we are more open.


 

Details

Type   House
Sleeps   8
Bathrooms   2
Swimming Pool   No
Surroundings   City
Bedrooms   5
    
Air Conditioning   Yes

 
Children Welcome   Yes
Smoking Inside   No
Exchange Cars   No
Pets Welcome   No
Disabled Access   No
    

 
Updated   2008-08-15 (yyyy-mm-dd)

 

Destination

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Indonesia, Open
2008-12-26  to  2009-09-01
10 - 60 days

 
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