Condo of the Day: Price Cut at 171 Greene Ave
The only surprising things about the price cut this weekend at 171 Greene Avenue in Clinton Hill are that it took this long and the reduction was only 5 percent-ish. When we first discussed this floor-thru condo between Washington and St. James in Clinton Hill last August, we couldn’t believe that they were asking about…
The only surprising things about the price cut this weekend at 171 Greene Avenue in Clinton Hill are that it took this long and the reduction was only 5 percent-ish. When we first discussed this floor-thru condo between Washington and St. James in Clinton Hill last August, we couldn’t believe that they were asking about $1,000 a foot. Now, nine months later, they’ve lowered the prices: Apartment 2 has gone from $745,000 to $707,750 and Apartment 1 is down to $736,000 from $775,000. We think that Apartment 2 is still a stretch but that there might be some interesting in the larger, ground-floor unit with a (rather small) yard. We’ll see. We did get a chuckle out of the fact that the listing uses a drawing of the facade rather than a photo of the real thing. (We’ve included one from our own collection.) Why do some people wait so long to bring down a price that was so obviously delusional from the start? Think of the carrying costs.
171 Greene Avenue, Apt. 1 [Prudential Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
171 Greene Avenue, Apt. 2 [Prudential Douglas Elliman]
Condo of the Day: Another Greene Ave Joke [Brownstoner]
2:03- I love Brooklyn and I live here, and my family is from here. I think that it’s a perfectly nice block. Broken Glass and Street Peeing happen on only the nicest NYC blocks. The bad blocks have much worse. I have seen all the things listed in the post above on the street and block in question. I’ve also seen this on Columbia Heights, on PPW, etc… and yet, all while nicely dressed child caregivers (mommies or otherwise) stroll by blithely on cell phones. That’s Brooklyn. I live on a very nice landmarked north slope block, and all the same happens too. It’s a dirty place, and we don’t see it because we’re too used to it.
1:49 pm — I think the suggestion that it’s a nanny wasn’t meant as a RACIST comment, and I think you’re the one jumping to conclusions and being prejudiced.
People should be able to make a comment like “mom/nanny” without immediately being smeared as a racist — regardless of what friggin crayola crayon they decided to draw the figure in.
Jesus H. Christ. In any instance of a stroller pusher in NYC, there’s about a 50% chance that she is NOT the mom.
I think the poster was probably referring to the type of buyer this imagery is targeting, which is the yuppie who may or may not choose to give their child over to a stranger to raise while they continue to do their career thing (yes, I have an opinion on that).
Wow those are awful apartments. The renovation is terrible!! Those prices really do seem to be completely delusional.
Umm. Broken glass? Peeing on electric meters? This is actually a very nice block, and as someone pointed out, this is relatively new construction done attractively. I find it interesting that this is another example of new construction townhouses being condoized by current owners (other example would be the neo-carriage house on Waverly discussed a few months back). Seems to me such a small condo would have all the drawbacks of apartment and house living with few of the benefits. But I guess in a world where prices are so high that a rental unit doesn’t pay for itself it si the only way to go.
where can i find a good map that clearly marks all brooklyn hoods. I dont really know where CH begins or ends and i want to get educated.
Why even make the suggestion that what looks like a black woman pushing a stroller would be a nanny? Especially since the child also looks to be of color. Does anyone mention nannies when you see pictures of white women pushing strollers? Some of them could just as easily be nannies. CH is a racially mixed neighborhood, and the potential buyers could be of any race, and could have a nanny of any race, too, if it came to that. This is just enlightened advertising.
Bringing this up may seem stupid to most, but the perception of race in relation to certain jobs should not be assumed.
Whether or not this place is worth the price is a whole other issue. Continue, please.
It is new construction, vintage 1990-2000.
The artist’s real brooklyn rendering should have keep the mini, but add a pile of broken window glass next to it. There should also sketchy guy peeing against the electric meeters while he waits for the bus, a bunch of stained newspapers blowing around, someone jogging their pitbull while riding a bike…and the stroller mom should be on a cellphone. Ahh BKLN
love the mom[or nanny]/stroller and mini in the drawing – you get the whole brooklyn lifestyle or something, lol.