@Sam:
Seriously? In DUMBO you are two blocks from both the F and A/C trains. What's the walk from 1BBP? 15 minutes?

Can't argue with about the noise, though.

Posted by: Rookie at November 3, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Tough Times at One Brooklyn Bridge Park

are they both in 321?

Posted by: Rookie at October 7, 2008 12:58 PM in response to Co-ops of the Day: Head-to-Head In The Slope

personally, I think self-interested benevolence is the best kind. It means that you are actually invested in the future.

Posted by: Rookie at October 2, 2008 9:42 AM in response to The Real Estate Scene Down Under

@wishinone - yep that's the place.
@Nokilissa - It's definitely that type of place. If this is your thing, it was a "money is no (or little) object" decision.

Here's the Times piece on it

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/garden/18rickys.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ricky%20park%20slope%20townhouse&st=cse&oref=slogin

FYI - the twin row-house to the left of it sold recently as well.

Posted by: Rookie at September 30, 2008 1:43 PM in response to Last Week's Biggest Sales

The 8th Street House was sold by Two Trees. It belonged to the guy who owns the "Ricky's" chain. The place was featurd in the Times last year - definitely a stunning, high-end reno.

Posted by: Rookie at September 30, 2008 12:54 PM in response to Last Week's Biggest Sales

Hey - I think both parties blow. Given the choice between Republicans and Democrats, I'll just pass. Give me a call when a true centrist party emerges.

Posted by: Rookie at September 4, 2008 8:44 PM in response to Closing Bell: Advice on Brooklyn Staycations

Wait, wait - am I getting a vibe that Brooklyn brownstone owners (and those that want to be them) might actually be standard-issue, knee-jerk liberals? I'm shocked.

Posted by: Rookie at September 4, 2008 6:48 PM in response to Closing Bell: Advice on Brooklyn Staycations

When I looked at that GoogleMap location, I really got excited. $769,000 at 1st & 1st in Manhattan? Sold!

Posted by: Rookie at August 18, 2008 2:06 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 1 Plaza Street

These houses were designed to be used as multi-family. In fact, some of them were used as tenements (multi-family on the same floor). I think this is the same type of house that Ricky (of Ricky's fame) renovated - it was in the Times a couple of months ago.

Posted by: Rookie at August 11, 2008 4:39 PM in response to House of the Day: 531 11th Street

This is a twin of the same house as a HOTD on 8th Street, right?

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/02/open_house_pick_170.php

what did that go for, if it was ever sold?

Posted by: Rookie at August 11, 2008 2:56 PM in response to House of the Day: 531 11th Street

I wonder how often they update Google Maps? Looking at this takes me back to pre J-Condo and Beacon days. Ahhh, memories.

Posted by: Rookie at July 29, 2008 1:55 PM in response to Condo of the Day: 84 Front Street, #9C

@Make My Heights the P Heights

Don't get be wrong - the Beacon is terrible (although people who live there seem to like it), and I spent many a pleasant evening at the bar. But holding on to a longshoreman bar after the longshoreman are gone is, to me at least, the worst of nostalgia and the height of anti-progress. It's time had passed. At best, it would have become another "theme dive-bar," with lawyers drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. Better it become a nice memory for original DUMBO homesteaders.

But there you go - different strokes. I probably shouldn't have been so cavailer about Admiral's Row, though. I think it would be nice to save it. But for some reason, it doesn;t get my blood boiling.

Posted by: Rookie at July 24, 2008 12:26 PM in response to Checking In On The Purchase Building Demolition

I guess we all have our little pet buildings. I've never cared much if they knocked down Admiral's Row and I couldn't care less that Between The Bridges is gone. But I always liked this building. I still don't understand why it wasn't landmarked.

Posted by: Rookie at July 24, 2008 11:17 AM in response to Checking In On The Purchase Building Demolition

Save The Robots? Maybe I only went there in its waning days, but all I remember is club kids coming down from a night of ecstasy sipping water, slumped against a wall.

Posted by: Rookie at July 15, 2008 2:53 PM in response to Another Gowanus Music Venue in the Works

"roving gangs of children."??

You make it sound like a scene from Children Of The Corn.

Posted by: Rookie at July 15, 2008 2:41 PM in response to House of the Day: 219 Washington Avenue

@daveinbedstuy
Thanks. Odd that it wouldn't be in the floorplan. You'd think that would be a bonus for the owner or renter.

Posted by: Rookie at July 15, 2008 2:38 PM in response to House of the Day: 219 Washington Avenue

can someone explain the rules about turning the garden-level apt into a rental? When is it a "basement" and when is it a "garden apartment?" I'm assuming it has something to do with light, acess, etc.

Posted by: Rookie at July 15, 2008 2:14 PM in response to House of the Day: 219 Washington Avenue

The more live music venues the better.

Posted by: Rookie at July 15, 2008 10:44 AM in response to Another Gowanus Music Venue in the Works

4 dollars for, what, maybe 20 cherries in that little basket? Is 20 cents a cherry really the going rate?

Posted by: Rookie at July 14, 2008 7:02 PM in response to Monday Blogwrap

Want and need are two different things. Make one of those bedrooms into a home-office, put in 2-3 kids, and that place fills up.

Posted by: Rookie at July 14, 2008 1:39 PM in response to House of the Day: 615 2nd Street

I can't believe I'm getting baited into this, but both Danity Kane and Day 26 had #1 albums this year (both in April).

Fonzworth (check the spelling) is, apparently, hosting a new show on MTV that Jamie Foxx is producing.

Posted by: Rookie at July 14, 2008 11:50 AM in response to Belltel/Real World Marriage on the Rocks?

"Ghetto," is a pretty loaded word. The show certainly seems to have produced two successful band, and Puffy knows how to produce compelling TV.

Posted by: Rookie at July 14, 2008 10:54 AM in response to Belltel/Real World Marriage on the Rocks?

MTV shoots "Making The Band" in a brownstone and it seems to work just fine.

Posted by: Rookie at July 14, 2008 9:59 AM in response to Belltel/Real World Marriage on the Rocks?

Not sure which point this supports, the "It'll NEVER sell" crowd or the "There's always a buyer for these places" crowd, but I noticed that the Penhouse is now in contract after being chopped to 5.75mil.

Posted by: Rookie at June 18, 2008 2:30 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 35 Prospect Park West