They are all listed as available to rent, as well. Or they were a month or so ago. On NYT website, but I don't recall who the broker was.

Posted by: MrMinerva at January 28, 2009 1:49 PM in response to Checking In On the Cherry Hill Tree Condos

It's the Palazzo Chupi of Carroll Gardens.

Lasties.

Posted by: MrMinerva at November 12, 2008 9:49 PM in response to A Mediterranean Makover

You people really actually know absolutely nothing about buildings in New York? Amazing. Look at the picture. Empty lot next to said Scarano snooze-job. Imagine this scenario: there are windows where you people think there should be. You buy an apartment in the building. A year from now, someone builds a building on the empty lot, right up to the lot-line, same height as your building, bricking over your windows, as they would have every right to do. You proceed to sue the developer, the architect, and the real-estate agent for false advertising or somesuch nonsense, because you are in idiot and bought an apartment with lot-line windows that could be built over by a neighboring building as-of-right. Ergo, only an idiot would think that there should be windows there.

And the building is not ugly, per se. It is just another boring building by a talentless hack who got caught exploiting a loophole in an illegal fashion, bordering (?) on fraud that screwed his clients and end-buyers. Save the honorific of 'ugly' for much more deserving Fedderiffic pieces of s---, like it's darling friend down Fulton at 1067. Now THAT is ugly.

Posted by: MrMinerva at August 29, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Scarano-on-Fulton Finally Finishing Up

I would be incredibly surprised if there are not rent-controlled and/or Section 8 tenants in the house. Does anyone know the status on that?

Posted by: MrMinerva at August 15, 2008 1:05 AM in response to House of the Day: 132 Cambridge Place

That's a project by the incredibly awesome Groundswell Community Mural Project. http://www.groundswellmural.org

Posted by: MrMinerva at August 13, 2008 10:24 PM in response to Closing Bell: Mural-in-Progress on Fourth Avenue

Is Mr. Da Sylveira totally unaware of his fellow brokers at Corcoran Ms. Bobbit and Ms. Corporan (what?!) who are selling this (http://tinyurl.com/6crhpb) house, nearly identical in size and renovation quality that is THREE DOORS DOWN FOR THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS LESS?????!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/6crhpb

All parties involved are so frak-all stupid it completely blows my mind right the frak out.

Posted by: MrMinerva at July 7, 2008 10:33 PM in response to House of the Day: 125 Cambridge Place

I'm pretty certain it has been on and off the market for years. Or, at least, it was on the market once a couple years ago or so.

Posted by: MrMinerva at June 13, 2008 5:57 PM in response to Former Union HQ on the Block

The units are also available to rent (still with Corco, but different broker) - also for very un-Myrtle-like prices. However, imho 10% off and they will sell.

Posted by: MrMinerva at June 9, 2008 4:57 PM in response to Condos of the Day: Still No Action at 364 Myrtle Avenue

They're listed as no longer available because - as 1:01pm guessed - they raised the prices. A friend made an offer at asking on two units, then before they could sign the contract, the developer raised the prices.

While I'm here:
"Too damn close to those PJ's [sic]" or "too far from the subway" are the dumbest things anyone could ever say about this development or any other development, condo, townhouse etc in Clinton Hill, Ft Greene, Park Slope, etc etc. If either of those things are such big factors in people buying, please explain to me the popularity of starchitect row on 11th Ave in West Chelsea, you moron. Or the LES or East Village, for that matter. All of those developments - and others in the aforementioned neighborhoods - are *much* closer to *much* larger projects and further from the train - you even have to walk through the projects to get to the train, which you don't have to do in the case of Clermont Greene or anywhere in Clinton Hill, Ft Greene, Park Slope, etc etc. So tired of hearing those lame, totally uninformed excuses. Stop trying to stir up bullshit neighborhood flame wars. Can we please stick to *informed* judgments on the overpricing of these units?

Posted by: MrMinerva at February 22, 2008 7:32 PM in response to Clermont Greene Gets a Facade But Still Needs Buyers

By way of contrast, here's what happens when you do a really nice, contextual job of renovating and condo-ing:
http://tinyurl.com/2qkkmb

Why do developers refuse to pay attention to examples like this?

Posted by: MrMinerva at November 29, 2007 12:40 PM in response to 14 Months Later, Still No Buyers for 45 Third Place!

It's a shame that such a bunch of Suburban Hell d-bags as Avalon had to be the ones to come along and build this, buuuut... I really think it is the right project at the right location. I love historic districts, historic buildings, and the vigorous protection thereof, etc, as much as the next B'stoner reader, but the fact is that much of that is wildly out of reach for most people. It is a simple economic fact that NYC and Brooklyn are in DESPERATE need of more housing and that more housing directly equals stabilization of prices which equals less people getting priced out of their neighborhoods. It is putting the cart before the horse to say that poor and middle class people are being run out of Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods by gentrifying preservationists - people across the city are moving to less expensive neighbohoods than the ones they were in before because there is not enough housing stock in the city. Brooklyn desperately needs 13,000+ more units of housing and right there is the second best place in the borough for it.

Posted by: MrMinerva at October 17, 2007 11:28 AM in response to So That's What Avalon Myrtle Will Look Like!

Huh. 57 Gates was on the market just a couple or three years ago. I'm not savvy enough with Property Shark to tell if it changed hands or not. I think it was around 1.1 then? An almost reasonable price now, I think. It doesn't have a cellar, the lot is very shallow (thus the tiny garden) and the top floor and bottom floor are a bit cramped, but it is super cute and in good condition.

Posted by: MrMinerva at October 12, 2007 1:19 PM in response to Open House Picks

agree w/ Montrose Morris - that thing at Fulton & Classon has to be the best worst.

Posted by: MrMinerva at September 10, 2007 8:53 PM in response to WNYC Contest: The Worst Buildings in New York