Co-ops of the Day: Head-to-Head In The Slope
How do these two Park Slope two-bedrooms stack up in your view? Both are pre-war; both are priced at $750,000. 209 Lincoln Place is in a large doorman building and has a monthly maintenance of $918; 862 President Street, which is in a brownstone, has a maintenance of just $600. From where we stand, we…
How do these two Park Slope two-bedrooms stack up in your view? Both are pre-war; both are priced at $750,000. 209 Lincoln Place is in a large doorman building and has a monthly maintenance of $918; 862 President Street, which is in a brownstone, has a maintenance of just $600. From where we stand, we think 209 Lincoln Place has a slight edge, but they’re both very nice.
Update 1:22 pm: It’s neck-and-neck, with 862 leading 22 to 21.
Update 2:25 pm: 209 is out in front by 54 to 48!
Update 4:55 pm: 209 Lincoln now winning 86 to 71.
209 Lincoln Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
862 President Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Wow, the Berkeley place has only been on the market a couple weeks. Glad to hear they already have an accepted offer. I think it’s a beautiful apartment from the pictures.
They just sold another place in that same brownstone last month, and it was gone within 2 weeks also.
Seems the well priced ones still move.
Neither of these apartments looks particularly overpriced to me–even in this economy. While I’m certain you could shave off a few $$ from the offering price, I think both places look pretty nice and are in great locations. I’d probably prefer the brownstone just because I don’t particularly care for larger buildings, but I bet you could snag either of these places for roughly $700-740 and it would still be a decent deal.
11217 – I saw the berkeley apartment. Its smaller than it appears on the floorplan and kind of cramped; the kitchen is small. Really no comparison to these two. The broker mentioned that an offer was accepted (at a bit lower than ask).
These are both very small and fairly graceless apartments.
They are also considerably over-priced. I would say keep looking!
OOPS! That is really tiny writing on that floorplan. Nevertheless, I still think the space would work better as a one bedroom.
FWIW bohuma, the “second bedroom” in the President Street coop is 7 x 16 ft, not 7 x 6. It’s still a feng shui challenge, but it meets the 100sf rule.
I’m sorry, but to qualify as a room in NYC a space has to be at least 100 square feet. The “second bedroom” in the President Street coop is 7 x 6 ft, which is either a study or a roomy closet, but not a bedroom. I like brownstones, but I think that we should be encouraging their restoration as single family homes rather than collections of tiny, tiny apartments. The President St co-op would work much better as a one bedroom apartment, with the living room at the front of the apartment, with an open kitchen, then a bathroom and bedroom at the rear. Each main room should be the full width of the building, it is too narrow to do otherwise.
to me, these are very different properties and it is tough to compare them. I’m a big fan of small, brownstone buildings with lots of charm and the President street place really appeals to me in that way. The facade of that building is gorgeous. And the remodeling looks nice. That said, the floor plan is definitely not as appealing as the Lincoln place. Lincoln place looks like a terrific 2 bedroom layout…nice foyer space with closets, spacious bedrooms, nice remodel as well. Plus, Lincoln Place looks larger. But, I tend to shy away from large buildings for some reason. I like the intimacy of a brownstone, I suppose. My guess is that the President street house is priced with 321 in mind, even though a family would quickly outgrow this space, particularly if there is more than one child. As a parent, I would choose neither, simply because I already have two kids (making President too small for us) and Lincoln is not in my preferred school district (which is 107 or 39). All that notwithstanding, I think Lincoln is a better deal – for size, remodel, and for people who like a large building, this one looks well-kept.
Wow, just looked at the President Street floorplan, and not only is it set up similar to my first link, but it doesn’t have the office/alcove that the one on Berkeley has….FOR 150,000 LESS!!!!