The Edge Is Making a List, Checking It Twice

place is over the top for cool, and will be a good long term bet, but there probably are simply not enough buyers out there. i have no idea how far that can cut prices while still being profitable. if prices were to drop substantially to something that equals an incredibly good deal think that demand for the property is there.

and, if anyone buys there on this board, we are now best buddies, and I'm coming over to use the pool.

Posted by: wine lover at October 28, 2009 11:06 AM

the location is pretty solid - next to Toll and the state park and across the street from nice buildings - all the fun stuff on N. 6th, walk up N.7th to subway. there's no industrial anything around there. tons of restaurants, shops, bars on wythe and berry bet. N.4th and N.10th. berry and wythe around there are extremely residential. hoping that the "industrial wasteland" comment was satirical.

without being ridiculous, think for a moment what this places offers. it will have a completely done pier/park area right on the river. tons of apartments will have never to be ruined manhattan views. the northside piers pier is FANTASTIC. it goes way way out into the water and features this giant bird like sculpture that goes down to become a giant bench.

Also, go to the Edge site and see what the pool area looks like. crap. cool!

i am saying that if they do slash prices, the demand for this place will be high. it's very very nice. and waterfront in NYC has a long term value that cannot be undone by snarkiness on brownstoner.

Posted by: wine lover at October 28, 2009 11:56 AM

rob - your comments make me laugh too! without resorting to the adjectives used by others to describe your comments, i will say you appear to live in a very negative head space.

at least I am a proponent for growth and expansion and change into more housing for our city. i am a dreamer and an optimist and very happy. you sound miserable. Maybe you're not miserable - i don't know. You criticize me, but what are you fighting for? Enlighten me, and I might fight for it too. Many on this board are also optimists and have a love for their nabes and their real estate purchases like DIBBS and MM. Even if their point of view is different from mine, i can understand where they are coming from. you just are barking out stuff for your own entertainment. which is fine, but not helpful in describing our changing urban landscape.

BTW - i didn't just wander around one sunday and buy the first condo I saw. you have to understand that i have an investment here in WB which i made after shopping constantly for a place for TWO YEARS! And, prior to buying my CH brownstone, i looked at 57 townhouses/brownstones in CH and CG. I looked all over for a year and half before buying in Park Slope. I have an informed point of view about purchasing real estate in gentrified Brooklyn that comes from seeing hundreds and hundreds of properties in many different areas. i have purchased wisely each time i bought (Cobble Hill in 1997, off of Fifth Ave on a named street in Park Slope in 2000). my record for predicting great investments in neighborhoods, is right on. i sold my PS slope place for 110% more than I paid for it.

when i say something about brooklyn real estate i know something about what i'm talking about. what you or anybody else thinks doesn't matter to me. i am not about to start doubting my opinions because a guy who rents says something dismissive.

And, I think that know way more about the WB condo market than most who have never even seen any of these developments! People comment off of pictures and mess up the geography of WB completely even. yes, there are ugly, poorly made places, but when people bust on the Edge or 80 Met or 125 N. 10th, then they are exposing themselves to being clueless. They are looking at modern architecture and dismissing it without really knowing anything about these buildings except that they aren't pre-war. it's ridiculous. people on this board probably think that the Mill is a better development because it has an old shell - it's not! all 3 developments i just listed are way better.

rob, i would totally have a laugh and a drink with you though - did you say you smoked? i do.

finally (for now) anyone who says that they wouldn't be happy swimming in a pool overlooking a park like setting, watching boats going down the river with the manhattan skyline in the back is lying. the views in WB are killer! sorry, you can't get that from the parlour floor of your brownstone "dripping in details."

Posted by: wine lover at October 28, 2009 2:10 PM