297 Driggs Shaeffer Landing
If you had $829,000 to drop on a condo in Williamsburg which of these would you prefer? A 2-bedroom, 1-bath in the Manhattan Park Condos overlooking McCarren Park or a 2-bedroom, 2-bath unit on the 8th floor of Shaeffer Landing?
297 Driggs Avenue [NY Times] GMAP
Shaeffer Landing 2 BR [NY Times] GMAP


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  1. I would defintiely choose Manhattan Park over Schaefer. The Manhattan Park building is beutiful and the Scahefer building is a completely unoriginal high rise. Manhattan Park has floor to ceiling windows and an elevator that opens up into each apartment. Plus, I think there are only 14 apartments in the entire building. Interiors are way more stylish, too. Without a doubt–Manhattan Park!

    The Manhattan Park website is HOT. Too bad you had a hard time getting on, cmu.

  2. Very beside the point, but when I clicked the first link: Manhattan Park Condos, it maximized my browser screen,a total no-no in my book. If the website worked (I could get no further) I would’ve sent a nasty note to the braind-dead webmaster.

  3. its difficult to take the water taxi there seriously. Its a nice idea, but people earning incomes sufficient to pay 830K have variable, often late, hours, and the water taxi doesn’t cut it. Despite the taxi name, the service isn’t that convenient at all unless your office is also on the river. The upside is that if you can pay 829k for an apt, you can afford the water taxi rates.

    Overall the views are prob. better from schaeffer (depends which way you face, becuase the skyline is much further away at McCarren. However, for shops and restaurants. McCarren clearly has better stuff nearby, despite the recent NYTimes article. My advice would be wait 6 mons and save a pile of cash.