New Development: Greenwood's Shangri-La (Not)
Brooklyn Properties and Brown Harris Stevens are sharing the brokering duties on a new 15-unit condo listing at 710 Sixth Avenue in Greenwood Heights with an illustrious past. The six-story (plus setback) building just slipped under the wire of the rezoning in 2005 so it’s no surprise it doesn’t exactly blend in. There were lots…
Brooklyn Properties and Brown Harris Stevens are sharing the brokering duties on a new 15-unit condo listing at 710 Sixth Avenue in Greenwood Heights with an illustrious past. The six-story (plus setback) building just slipped under the wire of the rezoning in 2005 so it’s no surprise it doesn’t exactly blend in. There were lots of violations during construction including weekend work. To cap it off, the architect of this place is the charmer who told members of CB7 that “all your crappy little houses will be gone in 5 years replaced by my beautiful buildings.” Beautiful ain’t exactly the first word that leaps to mind, is it? As for pricing, the two ground-floor duplexes are asking about $400 a foot while one of the top-floor units is listed at about $750 a foot; most of the apartments on the other floors are priced in the mid- to high-$600s. Interestingly, parking spaces here are going for $30,000, a good deal less than the $75,000 price tag over at The Dewitt.
6th Avenue Condo [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Shangri-La Homepage [Brooklyn Properties]
Go Anonymous, this seems to have become a gossip column and people are using it to vent their frustrations, lets’ back up a second and use the site constructively to honestly talk about real estate and its value along with what it brings to the neighborhood…. This is truly a high end building with great finishes, lovely views, bright and spacious apartments, private and shared roof decks, elevator, etc. etc. I actually looked at the apartments and liked them very much, enough so that I have an offer in to buy one of the units. Change is good, enjoy it while you can!
I agree, after looking at several projects in the Slopes, I cannot believe the extraordinary value provided at Shangri-La. Similar projects with fewer conveniences would be double in price just a few blocks away in the North Slope. This is actually very good construction, with beautiful high-end finishes. I can’t ask for a better location for my money and I wouldn’t mind living here at all. See you all soon!
Congratulations to the South Slope – this is just what we needed. A modern luxurious building with very nice finishes, hope other developers follow.
I don’t get it sometimes, this site has become a gossip column. Look its here for the public to learn about new things going up, going down etc.. its for your benefit, not for people to go against oneanother because they don’t have anything else better to do. If you are smart individual who is in the RE market and you know what your doing, you don’t need a site like this to make decisions for you. Some people think its crap and the smart ones will believe that they are buying something that noone else has and that my friends can be taken to the BANK! So be on this site if you will but if you don’t have the bucks or the brains to make your own decisions go find a hobbie or something because some of you people are pathetic! greenwood heights, sunset park whatever, all developers pretty much suck, don’t take it personally because in the end its all about the big fat Dollar Bill. PLay the game or SHUT UP!!!!
I don’t get it sometimes, this site has become a gossip column. Look its here for the public to learn about new things going up, going down etc.. its for your benefit, not for people to go against oneanother because they don’t have anything else better to do. If you are smart individual who is in the RE market and you know what your doing, you don’t need a site like this to make decisions for you. Some people think its crap and the smart ones will believe that they are buying something that noone else has and that my friends can be taken to the BANK! So be on this site if you will but if you don’t have the bucks or the brains to make your own decisions go find a hobbie or something because some of you people are pathetic! greenwood heights, sunset park whatever, all developers pretty much suck, don’t take it personally because in the end its all about the big fat Dollar Bill. PLay the game or SHUT UP!!!!
(I’m 7:23 — Oops, sorry,wrong thread!)
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Anon at 6:46: LOVE YOU. You are a real Brooklynite.
Lost in Brooklyn: Love you too, baby, to bits, but I gotta tell you, Greenwood Heights as a name for a neighborhood is brand spankin new. What we used to call a real estate neighborhood. Areas like that, in-between kind of neighborhoods once populated by working-class immigrants, have historically been identified by their parish. So welcome to St John’s! (Unless you were Polish of course)
I have lived here for 9 years and I can tell you that it was just fine – thank you very much – before all the development…
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beautiful post but you know, there’s no reason with people only it for the $$$; f-u-c-k them– maybe they get what they “deserve,” maybe they don’t. if you can conceive of a life w/at least some other values, it’s v. difficult to relate to them. also, there’s a HUGE amount of revisionist BK history going on; even at its supposed nadir, many many parts (not all, & for a # of reasons there was a substantial efflux) of BK were ** wonderful. ** that very much includes the 1970s & ’80s. that BK was neither Manhattan nor the LI/NJ suburbs didn’t bother a lot of us in the least.
LIB, we’re going in circles… i still have nightmares about BK revolutionary history so I very well know where that name comes from; I’m also near-certain (but your egg-cream is waiting if i am wrong) from around 1850 to I will even say 1995, ** nobody ** ever used that term to refer to the ‘hood. for a # of reasons I can’t give away my sources at the moment but I do (truly) appreciate the links (txxx).
#???– re: the flux of names, there’s a certain truth to what you say but it IS important– i have a lot to say about it but gotta run right now. (i will say the fact that A LOT of the bullshit real estate renaming is overtly racist/classist– important to add that bc it happened to poor peoples not generally thought that today– is a big reason.)
thanks for dialogue–
wwib
http://whowalkinbrooklyn.com
p/s: wwib book club bonus question: what writers of the past have asasyed a near-Joycean vision of Brooklyn? where is “Greenwood Heights” in their work?