Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. DUMBO $3,200,000 1 Main Street, #6B GMAP Located in Dumbo’s Clocktower, “This corner three bedroom loft plus den has walls of oversized windows with stunning park and Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge views. The stainless chef’s kitchen opens into an over-sized living room,” says its listing on StreetEasy. This 2,592-sf condo has 3 bedrooms, 3…
1. DUMBO $3,200,000
1 Main Street, #6B GMAP
Located in Dumbo’s Clocktower, “This corner three bedroom loft plus den has walls of oversized windows with stunning park and Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge views. The stainless chef’s kitchen opens into an over-sized living room,” says its listing on StreetEasy. This 2,592-sf condo has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 1 half bath, and it was listed at $3,399,000 in August 2009. Entered into contract on 2/19/10; closed on 3/19/10; deed recorded on 3/31/10.
2. PARK SLOPE $3,125,000
36 Montgomery Place GMAP
“A c.1889 C.P.H. Gilbert-designed Romanesque Revival mansion on Park Slope’s elegant and coveted Montgomery Place! … As a one-family home, it offers five full floors of elegantly proportioned rooms, opulent architectural detail, soaring ceilings, a sunny refuge in the rear sitting room, deck and south-facing garden,” says its listing on StreetEasy. This 15-room “Roman brick and rock-face brownstone” has 6,350 sf, 7 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 1 half bath. It was an Open House Pick back in May, when its asking price was $3,700,000. Entered into contract on 2/23/09; closed on 3/18/10; deed recorded on 3/29/10.
3. MILL BASIN $1,820,000
2600 National Drive GMAP
Somebody’s livin’ large in Mill Basin! According to its listing, this “Miami-style waterfront home” offers 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 half baths, a 1-car garage and 2-car driveway, panoramic water views, a heated infinity pool, a deck, and (wait for it) a jet ski ramp. Entered into contract on 2/9/10; closed on 3/11/10; deed recorded on 3/29/10.
4. MIDWOOD $1,350,000
1189 Ocean Parkway, #2B GMAP
Located in the Bristol, the Crown Jewel of Ocean Parkway, says StreetEasy. According to PropertyShark, this condo spans 1,842 sf. Entered into contract on 1/8/10; closed on 2/26/10; deed recorded on 4/1/10.
5. CARROLL GARDENS $1,175,000, #4A
348 Sackett Street #3 GMAP
Our prior Biggest Sales post included 2 units from 348 Sackett Street, a “brand new, five story elevator building,” and here’s a third. According to StreetEasy, this 1,344-sf condo has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and its asking price was $1,200,000. Entered into contract on 10/15/09; closed on 3/17/10; deed recorded on 3/29/10.
Photos from Property Shark.
Wow, who knew only white people like Facebook?
– http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/
That site jumped the (great white) shark long before they scored the book deal.
Could say the same about a lot of sites… ; )
I attend and then I make shit up.
Wow, who knew only white people like Facebook?
– http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/31/106-facebook/
That site jumped the (great white) shark long before they scored the book deal.
By Joe from Brooklyn on April 6, 2010 5:28 PM
“Stuff White People Like” should be the official users manual to this blog.
Joe –
Did that personal observation derive from attending an official or unofficial social gathering and looking around the room full of Brownstoner readers?
OR
Do. You. Just. Make. Shit. Up.
“Stuff White People Like” should be the official users manual to this blog.
joe,
Ed Hardy shirts seem to be one of those cultural memes that become obsolete and scorned by society about 1 week after their introduction into society at large.
Many times these objects or concepts are taken on quickly by a subset of the population which quickly gives the item both its identity and its ultimate reason for scorn within that given community.
For example;
Vanilla Ice’s high top fade circa 1992
MC Hammer’s Aladdin pants circa 1994
Biker pants as casual wear circa 1996
The non-ironic mullet
curiously enough, some of these memes continue their life in cultural limbo without regard to societal scorn and in fact, seem to resist all manner of public pressure to cease and desist.
For example;
The men’s speedo for any man not on an olympic swim team.
interesting cultural phenomena indeed.
I want my 40 seconds back, Joe.
http://bk.ly/pTS
Often it can be easier to find common ground with a white person by talking to them about something you both hate. Discussing things you both like might lead to an argument over who likes it more or who liked it first. Clearly, the safest route is mutual hatred. When choosing to talk about something that white people hate, it’s best to choose something that will allow white people to make clever comments or at the very least feel better about themselves. Currently, the easiest way to do that is to ask a white person for their thoughts on people who wear Ed Hardy.
Ed Hardy is a clothing company that makes a wide range of expensive t-shirts, hoodies, and jeans. These clothes are notable for their use of elements from classic tattoo design such as skulls, hearts, and dragons. On the surface, the use of the words “classic†“tattoo†and “t-shirt†would seem like a logical fit for white people, but it is not. White people hate these clothes unilaterally and it is advised that you merely accept that at face value. If you were to ask a white person to explain why a regular size dragon logo is ok but one that goes around the neck is not, you would be trapped in a long and fruitless conversation.
To put this in proper perspective, Ed Hardy is so hated by white people that it cannot be worn ironically. This is no small feat. As it stands, the only other entries in this category are Nazi Uniforms, Ku Klux Klan Robes, and self-tanner.
Since you cannot in good conscience have an Ed Hardy themed party, the best way to make use of this white hatred is to give your stories a little more appeal to white people.
For example, if you take the reasonable but not compelling story: “I got cut off in traffic this morning and when I honked the guy gave me the finger,†and replace it with: “I got cut off in traffic this morning by this guy in an Ed Hardy shirt. I honked and then he gave me the finger!†The story will become sixty percent more interesting to white people because it allows them to make a witty response like: “I guess that douche bag had to get to a UFC party or a nightclub event he was promoting.â€
Follow this up with a laugh, a high five, and a compliment about the acceptable shirt the white person is wearing and you will find yourself with a new white friend.
I grew up in Mill Basin [hangs head in shame], and I guess it was a lot easier to justify paying all that money for a waterfront house if you really “made use” of the water. Only problem is, anytime you fell off said water ski, you’d get an ear infection from the toxic swamp that is the “Basin”. Don’t know what the water quality is like now, but that ish was courting-Gowanus-type-gross when I lived there. Great elementary school, though.