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
“sensitive” second poster here. I’m sitting right now, in a ground floor sublet of the 2nd last block of 6th avenue before flatbush, and I’m hearing the afternoon car horn symphony as I type this.
i appreciate this, but you don’t live on the lovely tree-lined street that is park place, closer to 7th avenue. so how would said panhandler ringing your bell affect this doorman building that the post refers to? i’m confused as to the correlation between where you live and your comments on this particular property other than that you live in the same neighborhood.
“sensitive” second poster here.
I’m sitting right now, in a ground floor sublet of the 2nd last block of 6th avenue before flatbush, and I’m hearing the afternoon car horn symphony as I type this. There is a pan handler who comes to our gate and presumably others and spins some crap about others he has seen exiting or entering the building (“saw your friend, the one with the red jacket, she helped me with something this morning, got a broom? I’m gonna sweep the pavement” then hits you up for as much cash as he can get). The traffic gets backed up around here in all directions and i can only imagine how bad it will get when AY is finished.
None of this is an issue in the south slope: further south you have windsor terrace, east you have the park, west you have nothing much and north you have center slope. I wouldn’t bail someone out of ansonia for a million, I think they have appreciated about as far as they deserve, but location wise I’d take south slope if you like peace, any day! others may still be thinking park place is quieter than union square, fair enough.. I don’t disagree.
I’ve looked at both buildings and don’t really care for either. Ansonia has the nice courtyard (except it’s always eerily empty) and some of the apartments are nice and have private outdoor space, but most of them feel surprisingly cramped (and are often dark) despite the high ceilings. Plus the location with poor transportation options isn’t ideal. Park Place is ideally located for shopping and transportation, but has the layout problems that zeebee mentioned, PLUS the annoying, huge, ugly heating/cooling units that stick at least a foot out of the wall under several of the windows and must be four to five feet wide, again severely limiting options for arranging furniture in any logical or liveable way.
I also went with a condo in Park Slope (didn’t have the cash for a house, or the assets for a co-op) and found a condo apartment in a converted brownstone in the North Slope that gives me the best of everything: the feeling of living in a house (with my own garden), neighbors to share building maintenance with (but without the restrictions normally associated with a co-op), and the quiet, tree-lined street that is the essence of Brownstone Brooklyn living. (Most apartment like mine are co-ops, but there are some that are condos, so I lucked out.)
1:16 PM If you can find me a nice house in Prospect Heights for under 1.2, I’m with you. Unfortunately, the only thing I’ve seen recently is that shell that for 900K on Bergen that used to have the dog guy, and the broker there says he already has many offers way above 900K…and that place only has a floors on the staircase, and no roof. Someone else has a gut job at 43 Park Place for sale these days for 1.8. It’s crazy. Doesn’t make the condos worth it. You could buy a morningside heights condo for probably the same or less…
That block of Park Place is really nice though.
neither. both are overpriced and lacking in details and originality. for that price i would buy a house in prospect hghts
Put me down for Park Place.
Park Place certainly looks dark in the photos.
Not sure which corner you live around. I live on that block at Park Place. I think it’s one of the nicest blocks in the slope by far. That block drew us back out of Manhattan. It’s a tree filled, mostly intact landmark block. The corner with the new building is just fine. It’s a quiet block. The Flatbush noise does not spill over, but the 2/3 and Q trains are nicely near. There are no idling trucks, except around dinner time when the Fresh Direct trucks deliver. That building is not the coolest in terms of design, but the spaces are pretty nice, and the doorman seems like a nice guy. The block association is really nice and pretty tight knit, and the new residents at 145 have been participating in it. We had our block party last weekend. Nice, mellow fun.
Prospect Place around the corner, which is a shorter block is a little noisier. 7th Ave is plenty noisy, but Park Place seems to remain quiet.
The ansonia spaces are nicer probably, and the building (depending on which) has more charm, but that whole complex is a little old, the parking around there is just as hard, the transportation options suck, and all the carpets in those building halls smell like a generation of park slope babies and strollers.
I’m with 1pm. This is exactly why people are buying houses in areas others insult and turn their noses up about. No mystery, really.
The first thing we looked at were Park Slope condos. We knew we wouldn’t get as much space as a house, for a million in PS. But we liked PS, wanted to stay, and I’m not against modern buildings. However the layouts, the details (or huge lack thereof, in the case of the Ansonia) was simply depressing. I really dislike a row of bedrooms where not even the master BR is separated from the other BR’s. And wose yet, all the bedrooms open directly onto the public rooms.