Brooklyn's Most Desirable Buildings
The cover story in this weekend’s real estate section of The Times surveys in-demand, outer-borough co-ops that have an aura of exclusivity about them. In Brooklyn, the Heights’ One Pierrepont Street is highlighted: “As it has just 25 units, generally two per floor, sales are rare in the understated 12-story building. An 11th-floor three-bedroom sold…
The cover story in this weekend’s real estate section of The Times surveys in-demand, outer-borough co-ops that have an aura of exclusivity about them. In Brooklyn, the Heights’ One Pierrepont Street is highlighted: “As it has just 25 units, generally two per floor, sales are rare in the understated 12-story building. An 11th-floor three-bedroom sold earlier this year for $3.5 million, city records show; that makes it among the area’s priciest co-ops.” Meanwhile, 135 Eastern Parkway and Copley Plaza, at 41 Eastern Parkway, are mentioned as having cachet, as is the Emery Roth-designed 35 Prospect Park West. A question that springs to mind is which Brooklyn buildings will be considered the most exclusive/desirable 50, 75 or 100 years from now. One Brooklyn Bridge Park? On Prospect Park? 1 Main Street?
‘It’ Buildings of the Other Boroughs [NY Times]
it is a lovely building from the exterior. very formal and substantial.
m4l – my wife refuses to have NJ plates on the car.
ditto, some other transit lines have to change at newark Penn but the morris line doesnt have to change. whippany ppty taxes probably 35-40% of rye / scarsdale and prices probably 65%.
m4l – I see. I know some people in my office have to change at Secaucus or something.
ditto, NJ Transit goes into Penn Station. Whippany is no transfer needed.
Rye, Scarsdale. I prefer Rye. Excellent schools are a must and we can’t afford private.
I wasn’t being entirely serious about Glen Ridge, ditto, but I was thinking about the first towns everyone I know in Bklyn checks out once they have a kid and all the baby stuff starts overwhelming their apt. Towns w/ good schools that appeal to families with a vaguely middle class income but who are a little culture snobbish. I think that many Times writers might fall into that category.
The really upscale places Minard mentions would be out of reach – in fact, that’s the reason I don’t know anything about them, none of my ex-Brooklyn friends have moved there!
Ditto, where are you looking up North?
Totally agree w Minard, 2 Montague is far and away the most desirable coop apt building in the Heights, and by extension, Brooklyn.
m4l – is it a one-seat ride to Penn or does it require a change? Any change is bound to cause problems and should be avoided.
In any event, we’re going North. I just couldn’t stand commuting into that godawful suspended-styrofoam-ceiling preztel and chicken fat diesel exhaust stressy montrosity called Penn Station. Grand Central for me.