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]
ditto, the best deal (schools, house prices & ppty tax, proximity to NYC via trains and highways, safe) is Whippany/Hanover in central NJ near morristown. but it is more on the snooze side of suburbia.
Somerset and Princeton are west of Essex, yes.
btw, I am moving out of the city this summer, but I’m not moving to Glen Ridge. Its a great place for a lovely house and an excellent school district, but other than that its suffocatingly dull.
Minard, prcineton is to the north or west? I think you have your Atlas of New Jersey upside down.
Anyway, I think you may have missed Petunia’s point. Surely she is talking about class, not wealth. As you are an American, I’ll forgive you for conflating the two.
Thats as maybe M4L, but how about the ‘hood with 10-rated elementary, middle AND high school. Some of us have also a spread of kids ages by the time we hit the middle age spread so we need schools at all levels to be good. No 1 or no 5 in a system of x hundred schools isn’t going to make much difference.
Ditto, #1 NJ High School is in Milburn.
The NY Times tries to deal with the Boro they best way they can.
Petunia, get of Essex County already! The really wealthy parts of NJ are west and north. Somerset, Hunterdon, Princeton, Bergen.
“understated” is a good euphemism for ugly. No curb appeal whatsoever. Looks like the architect popped his clogs 10 minutes after starting the exterior ornamentation sketches. No doubt the views and spaciousness inside make up for it.
This is one of the most poorly conceived articles I have ever read in the NYT. The Park Ave. coop concept is not relevant outside Manhattan.
If you want an elite building with snob appeal where the coop board accepts or declines your application based on what stationary you use in your application, you will not find that in a $300,000 studio in Forrest Hills, even one with a fireplace. SORRY.
If you want an architectural wonder in a lovely neighborhood with a relatively low cost per square foot, this article didn’t even begin to address that.
Also, note to writer: Many people would consider a townhouse to be more desirable than an apartment, even in Manhattan.