Meter Readings- Con Ed, DEP, NG

can anyone recomend a person to call to seal tile? just installed a marble bath.... thanx.

Posted by: g123 at March 5, 2009 6:47 PM in response to curing and sealing marble floor

Hi...feel better and enjoy the snow! Atlantic Ave between Grand and Classon... CHOICE Atlantic opened down there! i am sooo excited! thats going to be their main branch.. delivery... big kitchen etc... and they are opening up another branch in downtown brooklyn! yeah!!

Posted by: g123 at March 1, 2009 7:37 PM in response to A Little Help

Property is pretty darn cheap right now. And there is still good property. Buildings that are largely sold, largely paid off, already at 50% or more. Relatively safe buildings and they are priced well right now, at or getting close to cost.

If you’re waiting for the market to get cheaper (less then cost)… then you are planning to buy a high risk unit from buildings under duress. More typically this stuff is picked up by investors who have the stomach and tolerance for it. Most home buyers can’t live with huge vacancy… transient tenants, no services… lawsuits… no ability to re-sell for years, huge assessments that are unpredictable and the possibility of their home becoming effectively uninhabitable.

I think the market overall is well priced right now, I really do. But there should be and I think there will eventually be as the market adjusts a price difference between a largely sold, largely occupied, basically safe building and a largely unsold, un-built, unoccupied extremely vulnerable building. It hasn’t happened yet, but I think that it will and I think that’s where we are going to see further drops.

Posted by: g123 at February 10, 2009 9:28 AM in response to Most Post-2006 Condo Buyers Are Underwater?

I love the G train! Honestly there are a lot of great things about the G. First of all… it’s adorable! 2nd it is the best (and only) way to getting around Brooklyn… Greenpoint (LIC) to Carol Garden (Park Slope too sorta). 3rd- seats!! Lots of seats. And those connections… ok on one hand you have to make a transfer… on the other you have great options and a lot of flexibility.

Everyone’s always trashing the G train so I assumed they were right and I avoided it… then one day I used it … and I was shocked that it was so convenient. Why’s everyone so down on the G? I don’t know how often it runs at 2am… at 2am cabs are cheap and quick… I’d have to be pretty broke to go training it home at 2am no matter what train it was… even when I lived in the city.

Posted by: g123 at January 6, 2009 10:47 AM in response to House of the Day: 69 St. James Place

Outpost rules! Best cappuccino makers in Brooklyn!

Posted by: g123 at December 31, 2008 2:14 PM in response to Shout-Out to Outpost

I would like Fulton to be prettier… and more stuff would be great… but I find this location really convenient and I count 17 places that I use all the time that opened in the past 7 years so I’m confused about what you call a lack of development.

There’s also a MET food and a Post office that have been there forever.

But here’s what’s opened since I moved here (7 years ago)

An organic Green Market
another dry cleaners
24 hour laundry on Cambridge
A pharmacy
Jessies (my favorite nail salon)
Outpost Café
Neighborhood deli
The dollar Store (that I use even though it’s not pretty)
A flower shop (that’s lousy and that I don’t use even though it is sort of pretty)
Sisters Hardware store
Wine Store
Wine Bar
Soule (Soul)
Kush, (French African)
Some new bar place next to Kush
Brownbetty (café/ brunch)
Au Tour du Monde
Vin y Olio (Italian) (maybe 8 years ago?)

Posted by: g123 at August 2, 2008 3:08 PM in response to Shell of Its Former Self, 925 Fulton Street For Sale

It’s 16 ft but 5 stories. And the owner is renovating. So is was in really (really) bad shape but it’s also under renovation.

Posted by: g123 at July 29, 2008 5:26 PM in response to House of the Day: 112 Lefferts Place