Condos of the Day: Side-by-Side in The Slope
If you had a little under $1.2 million to spend on a condo in Park Slope which of these places would you prefer? The 1,440-square-foot three-bedroom at the Ansonia on 12th Street for $1,190,000 (at left) or the 1,290-square-foot two-bedroom at 145 Park Place for $1,161,000 (at right)? We’re pretty sure which way we’d go,…
If you had a little under $1.2 million to spend on a condo in Park Slope which of these places would you prefer? The 1,440-square-foot three-bedroom at the Ansonia on 12th Street for $1,190,000 (at left) or the 1,290-square-foot two-bedroom at 145 Park Place for $1,161,000 (at right)? We’re pretty sure which way we’d go, but we’ll wait until later in the day to give our opinion. Let’s hear yours first.
438 12th Street [Corcoran] GMAP
145 Park Place [Corcoran] GMAP
I’d take that block of Park Place over a lot of the North Slope and most of the South Slope. Not that building though. There was recently a coop listed in a brownstone with a garden that seemed like a much better bet.
Also- was someone really just complaining on this board about the noise from St. Augustine’s Church Bells? That’s like the most charming feature of the block. The toll Xmas tunes every year. It really a nice deep full tone, and it’s goes off with one tone on the half hour, and then a complicated vesper at Noon and Six. I can’t believe that would be a turn off. It’s not window piercing loud- you need to be outside to hear it.
1.2mm for a 2 bedroom? I’ll find one in Brooklyn Heights for that.
The Ansonia is very nice if you have kids. The zoned school is better too. Despite being dependent on the F line, I much prefer this end of the slope to the north or center slope — much quieter and less pretentious.
Is neither an option?
I’d take Park Place with the roof terrace.
145 Park Place is a rehab, new bulk over old structure. New tax year is almost here and no J-51 in place. I analyzed the offering plan for apt. 4E where taxes were promised at about $100 per month. 2007-08 tax bill will be $14,400!!!! Those who bought will get the shock of their life. Offering plan shows sponsor’s engineer estimating annual electric bill in excess of $4,500 for a two bedroom. This is electric heat and a.c. The A.C. boxes protrude about 12 inches into the apt. which is a cheap motel system. Casement windows open inward with no screens! This building is cheap crap. Buyer beware as they say. Anyone interested in my four page analysis of the offering plan write me at: mgold218@yahoo.com
I lived on Park Place for four months. They are pretty blocks and the trains are great but boy was it noisy. Cars speed up the street to Flatbush and 7th Avenue and in the morning rush it can take 10 minutes just to drive on Park Place from 5th Avenue to 7th Avenue in a car, which means the cars are sitting on the streets long between lights. Also, there’s a church that rings its bells on the hour, which I also find to be noise pollutions. I live further South now and it’s much quieter in comparison.
Park Place, lovely block, lovely location, but weird space and frumpy fixtures. Cheap per square foot, though, for the location and for being a condo. I’d pick it over the Ansonia, but only because I don’t like venturing below Ninth, which I’ll grant you is hardly logical.
Careful of anything in the Ansonia. I had an accepted bid on an apartment there some time ago and was advised while getting ready to sign the contract of an imminent maintenance hike due to ongoing problems and disputes between the tenants and the devleoper. If you’re going to have headaches and uncertainty like that, you might as well own your own townhouse.