Tasteful Friends: This palace in Bay Ridge can be yours for $25 million.

It's absolutely hideous and I love it for that. I would have fun making it even worse.

The Orange Menace would be right around home in this place.

Surely you mean "right at home"?

He retired after his license was revoked for insurance fraud.

I was gonna say - how the fuck did a dentist get the funds to do this?

He should be in jail. They only caught him on a few hundred thousand that he had to pay in restitution. If you think that's all the fraud he did, then I have a $25 million house in Bay Ridge Brooklyn to sell you.

Fraud, Mafia, and other things. Makes me sick.

"Mr. Epelboym, who also owns homes in Pennsylvania and Georgia, said his favorite part of the Brooklyn house was the lower level."

Probably bought those houses with fraudulent criminal money too.

They should be deported - seriously. All those Brooklyn Russian immigrants scammed so much, it's disgusting.

His neighbors must love him. (I would love to know the address so I could see the rest of the block.)

Hideous. And, yes, perfect for the orange one.

I don't hate it. I like how they fully committed to the aesthetic and didn't cut corners. It really is a gaudy mini-palace.

The only thing I dislike is the fiberglass jacuzzi in the home spa. They really should have sprung for a stone in-ground jacuzzi. The fiberglass one is a little Dallas suburb mcmansion-y.

Here’s the listing R6

I live in Bay Ridge- it’s too red for me but I can afford it That said, there are some really lovely neighborhoods and homes in the neighborhood. The lots are not big but there are lots of charming homes. The house from “Blue Bloods” is there. And there are a couple houses owned by tacky Eastern Europeans that they have made over in gold and pillars. Same thing with Staten Island but those homes are not as old. That big tacky house from “Anora” is just a few minutes down the Belt. Apparently a lot of nice homes in Forest Hills, Queens have received the same makeovers. If you know that area, you’ll know it’s a shame.

R8

Thank you. As I suspected it doesn't quite fit, though there are other 'new money/no taste' houses on the block.

Oh lovely, “the house that insurance fraud built.”

This dumb bitch NYT writer wrote this: "museum-quality décor and fixtures".

Why does the listing say 3,300 square feet in one portion and 14,000 square feet in another portion?

My eyes are old and I don't have my glasses, so if I misread or made typos, please don't flame me.

R13 - I saw that too - I don't know.

Construction is also a tried and true way for Mafia of any kind (Italian, Russian, etc.) to launder money. Write up receipts for work done (or supposedly done) at very high prices and boom - you're a successful construction / home services company.

Casinos too. Ask Trump - he knows all about it.

Putin's whore's hideaway pad looks just like it.

No way its 14,000 square feet. Looking at the measurements in the listing, it appears the main and second floors are probably 3300 square feet. Looks like 1/3 of the second floor is "open to below" So that means the basement is probably around 2000ish square feet.

Also, a ONE car garage? WTF?

Also, this is horrendous.

The house is two blocks from the “Offshore Diner.” Is that like the “Midnight Rose Candy Store” that was in Brownsville, Brooklyn and was the headquarters of Murder, Incorporated? My mother’s family lived near that “store” in the 1930s, and my maternal aunt told me that everyone knew what it really was.

Also, why would the owner advertise that he was convicted of insurance fraud when he’s trying to unload, err, sell the place?

This is similar to the other Tasteful Friends - if you had $25 million - why would you spend it on this place in Bay Ridge?

And how much do we think this place ACTUALLY cost? Plot was 1.13 million. 4-5 million in construction?

Just because there's a lot of gold filigree-type of molding doesn't mean it's real.

This may be ANOTHER money laundering scam - Mafia-owned corporation 'buys' it for $25 million, then he sweeps back 15 million back to them.

This guy needs to be investigated and deported.

Why is it that rich people and good taste never go together?

R19 - he's not rich, he's a criminal fraud artist. And he's from a former Soviet Republic. Gaudy is what they live for.

Was Dr Epelboym‘s office on Toidy Toid and Toid?

4000 ft.² tops. A dentist? What the fuck!

Not a book in sight.

R23 New wealth….. so very common!

Too sedate.

It’s a shame as they look so terrible among the other homes.

"...where a century-old Victorian had once stood."

Pure evil.