What’s it cost to live in one of the most photographed buildings in Brooklyn? About $750 a foot, according to the latest listing to hit the market in the Eagle Warehouse at 28 Old Fulton Street on what we think of as the borderline between Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. (In his profile of the street in yesterday’s New York Times, Christopher Gray noted that a 1939 guidebook called Old Fulton a “sort of Brooklyn Bowery, with flophouses, small shops, rancid restaurants, haunted by vagabonds and derelicts.) The photos of the interior of the apartment reveal a much brighter, lighter (paying attention Nick Drake fans?) space than what we would have imagined given the heavy Romanesque, almost fortress-like exterior. This 1,775-square-foot, three-bedroom co-op on the 5th floor is probably reasonably priced at $1,350,000 given that the same apartment one floor below closed for $1,275,000 back in August of 2006. (This two-bedroom in the building recently went into contract for $1,595,000.) We generally dislike curved anythings when it comes to interior design, but it looks like the open eating counter makes sense in this layout. Otherwise, everything looks very clean and attractive, likely to please both modern and traditional palettes.
28 Old Fulton Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
From Ghost Town to Park Gateway [NY Times]
Photo by thegirlsny