Checking in on Bushwick's 358 Grove Street
So what up with the development at 358 Grove in Bushwick? The 59-unit project has been on the market for more than three months and just 12 of the 39 units listed on Halstead are in contract so far (most of them are on the E line). Prices are under $500 a foot and the…
So what up with the development at 358 Grove in Bushwick? The 59-unit project has been on the market for more than three months and just 12 of the 39 units listed on Halstead are in contract so far (most of them are on the E line). Prices are under $500 a foot and the finishes look okay, so what’s the deal? We’d love to hear from folks who’ve gone to check it out already. For those who haven’t, there’s a tripleshot of open houses tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.
358 Grove Street [Halstead] GMAP P*Shark
358 Grove Boldly Pushing Bushwick Boundaries [Curbed]
I went to see the units. The ceilings are low but the units are nice and seem somewhat removed from the Bushwick that we know. However, the bathrooms and kitchens are cheap and tasteless and lack any modern sleek appeal. I don’t understand why they would skimp on kitchens and bath. They are such a huge selling point. I was interested in this project but the design was a deal breaker for me.
Also, how can they sell that kind of square footage as luxury by any definition? If you’re going to build a crappy high-rise out in the middle of a slum, you might as well make the apartments more spacious than the railroad walk-throughs that surround it. 800 Square foot 2 bedrooms don’t cut it.
Wow, that Voice article says it all.
nicely said head hurts. there are many people who are not wall stret investment bankers who want a nice place to live and can’t afford the brownstone areas.
when will bushwick get it’s fair shake?
It’s a fine line between Bedstuy, Bushwick and Williamsburg…check the below pdf map and see for yourself these “supposedly” dividing zips, which not only divide neighborhoods and people, but indiscriminately appoint some magical*(*and yes its just that nothing more..pushed out of the Slope go East and superficially increase value because you can’t go West..) value to the land and ammenities, allowing others to define who you are? Then watch that supposedly very defined acceptable “line” slowly begin to change; which for any reliable purpose, is in itself BS..
http://www.unhp.org/pdf/maps/zip_bk.pdf
Bedford Stuyvesant 11213, 11216, 11233, 11238
Bushwick – Williamsburg 11206, 11221, 11237
The line between Bushwick and williamsburg is no better, yet there’s no current lacking of Pricey real estate across the etched in BW border..the same goes for BW and BS; you can find pricey mansions in Bedstuy for well over a million yet many of these areas are “iffy” at best. Where as Bushwick has a surprisingly safer feel/look throughout, but not so many pricey mansions..Williamsburg has the most interesting combination of price vs. safety and “old school” vs. trendy going on…
Ignore lines on a map and check the neighborhoods for yourself..Extremely different vibes, feeling, aura, what have you within every part of these haphazardly drawn lines.
So who was that brave soul who first moved into Williamsburg a few years back, only to have his RE value quintuple in a NY minute…that flat-broke guitarist with no other choice..And now that the “Big” city has pushed all but the very well-to-do out of any real affordable housing(less than $1m for a 1BR anyone..below this is affordable really?)
That said all this gentrification takes a toll on the older, everyday worker and “low-income” residents as -Sper 1:57 – pointed out..
Before any of us sit here and disparage an entire neighborhood we should probably remember that many hard working, well intentioned, under-paid teachers, fire-fighters, cab drivers, small business owners, students, police, “blue-collar” workers and overall decent Human Beings live there; good and bad. The same goes for those living on Central Park West, there will always be good and bad..the blanket difference; money…no matter on what side of the line you live.
No Anon 12:24. Bushwick is not part of Bed Sty. It is part of Bushwick.
Forgive a dumb question, please: Is Bushwick part of Bed-Stuy? I’ve seen lots of maps that lump this area into BS.
I’m not saying that the amenities are all there yet but rather that improvements are being made and people are currently paying these prices in the area. If the neighborhood already had the amenities people would have to pay $100 more per sq ft.
The normal course of development/gentrification or whatever you want to call it is that buildings are built and sold for a price slightly below more established neighborhoods. This attracts new people and once they are there the market for the amenities is formed. New businesses must make it in the first few months or they will not last, the amenities never come first. But once the momentum starts it begins to snowball.
Currently the bars, cafes, etc. are starting to pop up 1-3 subway stops away. So for now it’s a short train ride or short car service to those things that these new residents want. It’s only a matter of time before some entrepreneur sees that there are all these people who want a bar or cafe or whatever but have to travel for it and then he or she opens one up.
1:04 what ammenities are teher within a couple of block radius of this condo? Do they have restaurants, cafe, decent supermarkets, bars etc? Things that would draw the demographics that can pay those prices?