Condos of the Day: 480 Eastern Parkway
Henry Radusky has been doing his part to uglify Crown Heights with the recent completion of an eight-unit condo at 480 Eastern Parkway. (At least the facade lines up with its neighbor though.) Based upon a sign hanging on the building (there’s nothing posted yet on the Developers Group website), the two- and three-bedroom apartments…
Henry Radusky has been doing his part to uglify Crown Heights with the recent completion of an eight-unit condo at 480 Eastern Parkway. (At least the facade lines up with its neighbor though.) Based upon a sign hanging on the building (there’s nothing posted yet on the Developers Group website), the two- and three-bedroom apartments start at $525,000. That’s about all we know. Has anyone been inside yet?
480 Eastern Parkway [Flickr] GMAP P*Shark DOB
It sounds like the market has spoken
I take that back about 46 Lefferts — Corcoran now claims to have signed contracts on six of the eight units — this is after The Developers Group lost the exclusive and several price cuts (and they had already priced them below The Developers Group’s original asking prices when they took it over).
Surely you jest — these things have been on the market forever, and The Developers Grous has been plugging them as Prospect Lefferts Gardens, which they sure as heck ain’t, but it goes well with their similarly hideous and overpriced “Lefferts South,” again, not in PLG.
These apartments are crap inside — the floors are already coming up and no-one has ever lived in them. And the front of the building, with its white metal fence, is a monument to poor taste.
These apartments are also being offered as rentals — from $2800 for a 2 BR/convertible 3 to $3800 for a convertible 4 BR.
Same developer as 46 Lefferts Place, another cheap-o crap job not selling.
These are not so bad. Go twenty blocks or so east on eastern parkway though, and look at the ‘affordable units’ going up in East NY, and they look much prettier, and much more like the solidly build brownstones of the past.
These units are now being offered as rentals.
I have keys if anyone wants to see the apartments, better to be informed than to resort to conjecture
Agreed, those windows are the worst
yeah, I live in the nabe too and agree, it blends in well from the outside. but I’ve been inside, and trust me, they’re lame. just felt like the cheapest renno job possible. very sterile, boring and suspect not well constructed either…
I guess I don’t get it. I am a fan of somewhat more assertive design than this place, but what’s so awful about it? It seems pretty plain to neutral in looks. It’s greatest flaw – from this photo at least – is that it’s a little bland.
I get the feeling that certain developers are just vilified, no matter what they try.
What gives?