Condos of the Day: 424 Lafayette Avenue
Last we checked in with 424 Lafayette Avenue, the developer was trying to flip the site before starting construction. Now look at it: It’s all grown up into a Scarano wannabe. The seven-unit building is described in the listings as being located in “the heart of Historic Clinton Hill,” which is a bit of a…
Last we checked in with 424 Lafayette Avenue, the developer was trying to flip the site before starting construction. Now look at it: It’s all grown up into a Scarano wannabe. The seven-unit building is described in the listings as being located in “the heart of Historic Clinton Hill,” which is a bit of a stretch, given that it’s east of Classon. (It is conveniently located across the street from the projects, though.) The interiors look fine in a mid-2005-Developers-Group kinda way. As for pricing, there are three smaller units priced between $272,000 and $359,000 and three 932-square-foot units priced between $615,000 and $625,000. Not crazy dough for the units themselves, but this location ain’t exactly scenic. There’s an open house this Sunday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
424 Lafayette Avenue, Multiple Listings [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Development Opp: Midstream on Lafayette [Brownstoner]
The photo is wrong. The photos above are from that really skinny building on Fulton. The post refers to the new development on Lafayette. Just a heads up.
Because we all have to get off on something — looking down our noses at others does the trick for a lot of us.
Seriously, I am the most pretentious, snobby architecture fetishizer our there, but this doesn’t look so bad. At all.
Everyone’s so critical. OK, so let’s say you’re looking for a 1-br apartment in Brooklyn and you can afford up $272,000. This is “crap” and an “e-waste”(?). So what should you buy at that price point?
almost $700/ sqft is way too much for this area
1:18 – so, don’t read the posts about new buildings. brownstoner is obviously expanding to cover more real estate happenings in the gentrified (or gentrifying) areas of brooklyn.
for many people, having a nice, clean, new space is way more important than buying some old piece of crap that needs tons of work, etc… they don’t care about pre war whatever.
a lot of NY’ers want to live here because they have busy, interesting lives. clearly, this is the prevailing attitude or new housing wouldn’t cost so much (see manhattan psf new condo prices) or sell so quickly.
really, your opinion is just that. it’s pointless for you to even express it. who, exactly, are you speaking to? to the others who share your point of view? what if the majority of brownstoner posters shared, your view, who cares? it’s not relevant to what’s going on in the city right now in terms of development.
maybe try to look at this from another perspective, you may get some insight.
is this bed stuy or crown heights?
1:15…I don’t think this actually replaced any projects, but I don’t find it any more aesthetically pleasing than the PJs just because its new. Give this the 35-50 years that most of the public housing in the area has been around and I guarantee it will look just as tawdry.
Eyesore extraordinaire.
Total crap. This will not sell anytime soon at those prices in that location. Lets check back on them in 3 mths to see how much the asking price has been cut by. I predict 30% what about you guys?