Co-op of the Day: 35 Prospect Park West

will fly off the market.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 12:51 PM

Wow, it's basically like living in an entire suburban house as an apartment.

I sure wouldn't mind living in it if I was someone making $10 or $20/million a year. But I love Brooklyn. Have no idea if anyone else thinks it's worth it.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 12:56 PM

The penthouse is in contract, don't know the selling price, but pretty close to asking

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:25 PM

considering that the apartment seems to be well over 4000sf, i don't believe the maintenance is out of line at all. this is standard for a top of the line doorman with all the bells and whistles building.

like that stribling has the listing, since she just bought in brooklyn.

shows she really cares about her new home.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:30 PM

Actually, Johnife, I don't think that's a huge maintenance for that much space in a full-service bldg. Especially since property taxes are included. I agree, for most of us it is mind-boggling, but I suspect that it isn't for people who make millions/year -- less than $50,000 is such a small % of those kind of incomes.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:32 PM

If I were in this price range, which sadly I am not, I would probably opt to by one of those $3.5m townhouses on Montgomery Place, and save myself a $1m as well as the maintenance. Still, the views must be incredible.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:32 PM

Spectacular. Worth every penny.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:35 PM

some people are definitely doorman kinda people, 1:32.

they just like that convenience and don't want the responsibilty of a house.

i agree with you though...i'd rather have a house.

my favorite blocks are montgomery and berkeley.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:36 PM

I had an elderly friend who said Turner Towers on Eastern Parkway, where he lived, was built in reaction to this building because Jewish people weren't allowed to move in during the '30's.

I know this kind of "gentleman's" agreement is still enforced in some Manhattan co-ops.

Does anyone know if it is here?

Although there are open housing laws, co-ops get around these because board deliberations are private.

What's the word on this building?

(And if this sounds archaic, it's interesting to note that 740 Park Avenue, New York's most expensive apartment house, is now known around the Upper East Side as a "Jewish" building because Rennert, the billionaire, just bought two apartments for his daughters there, putting Jewish residents over the 50% mark.)

If this building was built as a co-op in the 1920's, I'm sure it has an interesting social history to tell (especially if it began to open up like 740).

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 1:55 PM

Are Rennert's daughters hot?

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:07 PM

My broker said these coops are as difficult to get into as the chic ones on Park Avenue. Notoriously, in the 90's, Madonna was turned down by one of these Prospect Park West coops. They don't usually like celebrities very much in these places.

There is a very specific type of buyer for apartments like this, and they're not anything like us here. Our tastes and lifestyle are just not comparable. There truly are certain types of people who would never live in a brownstone, even if it's on the best block in Park Slope.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:10 PM

Umm....2:10...Madonna was turned down for CENTRAL Park West co-op. Not Prospect Park West.

Madonna has no clue Brooklyn even exists.

I can assure you that much.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:15 PM

lol.

Madonna was NEVER turned down by a PPW co-op.

I love the collective Park Slope mind!

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:16 PM

Part of me thinks Park Slope wouldn't know what to do with Madonna, and another big part of me thinks she'd be the leader of the Park Slope stroller mom brigade.

You know she'd love it. She seems pretty neurotic.

But nevertheless, I would guess that Madonna has never set foot on Brooklyn's shores.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:19 PM

I just know I heard the story from someone who bought a coop in Park Slope 13 years ago, and said the building used to be called "The Madonna building" by residents at that time.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 2:41 PM

Gives me kind of a fusty feeling. Layout is great, though, having all the bedrooms on the second floor. Oddly the price doesn't seem all that high. Perhaps the $8 million HOTD has numbed me.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 3:51 PM

The assisted living facility on the corner of PPW and GAP was once the Madonna Residence, a nursing home no doubt named for the original Madonna.

35 PPW houses lots of Jews.

Hey, doesn't Madonna practice Kabbalah? Hmmmm....

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 3:53 PM

I heard Brangelina bought all of On Prospect Park and are turning it into an orphanage.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 5:05 PM

Brangelina will have to fight Beyonce for the 4 floors she already bought.

And no, I'm not kidding.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 5:14 PM

The Beyonce OPP story has been repeatedly brought up and dismissed. The sales numbers don't back it up.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 5:27 PM

Sorry 5:27 but you're wrong.

There are no "sales numbers" that you would know about.

Trust me on this one.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 5:31 PM

Of course.

I always trust anonymous blog posters.

Especially those that ask me to trust them.

I'm sure each and every one of us here on Brownstoner trust you.

Just as they trust me, another anonymous blog poster.

Trust me on this one.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 6:19 PM

From Gowanus Lounge:

"After Curbed first reported a 'rumor' that Beyonce might have bought an apartment at Richard Meier's glassy On Prospect Park, GL has been told by a knowledgeable source that it's for real. A Curbed commenter had noted yesterday that Beyonce bought a two-bedroom apartment at the Meier building. Yesterday evening, GL received an email from an industry source that simply said, "Beyonce rumor is confirmed." ... So, it looks like Brooklyn may have landed another celebrity, although Beyonce already owns a luxury spot in Manhattan. Unless, of course, the rumor is un-confirmed after this confirmation."

Interesting how an alleged 2BR apartment has ballooned to FOUR FLOORS.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 6:32 PM

PArk Slope still sucks. Suck it, slopers.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 7:23 PM

yawn.

Posted by: guest at February 4, 2008 9:36 PM

The $6.5 million penthouse in this building is in contract, as per the listing on BHS and Corcoran.

Posted by: guest at February 5, 2008 12:59 AM

Would help if the broker gave the room dimensions on the floorplan. Guest 1:30 is estimating 4000 square feet but that seems way high....

Posted by: guest at February 5, 2008 8:48 AM

Madonna has ignored Brooklyn and will suffer the consequences: she will get old(er than she already is) and die.

Posted by: guest at February 5, 2008 10:04 AM