Co-op of the Day: 39 Plaza Street West
We’re liking the looks of this prewar apartment at 39 Plaza Street West in Park Slope. The 1,500-square-footer has three bedrooms (including a small maids room) along with a large foyer and a dining-living-room set-up that’s 40 feet long. The dark-stained floors give the prewar pad a slightly modern edge, but it’s relatively understated and…
We’re liking the looks of this prewar apartment at 39 Plaza Street West in Park Slope. The 1,500-square-footer has three bedrooms (including a small maids room) along with a large foyer and a dining-living-room set-up that’s 40 feet long. The dark-stained floors give the prewar pad a slightly modern edge, but it’s relatively understated and works with existing original details. The price of $895,000 seems pretty reasonable to us as well given the building, location, etc. Do you think it’ll get the ask?
39 Plaza Street West [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
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You are right: 39 & 47 Plaza are the only two pre-war bldgs by Candela in Brooklyn, both for the same developer, Jacob Mark. 39 was built first, in 1926. 47 Plaza was completed in Nov 1928.
Candela’s practice was devastated by the depression and he later built a variety of other bldgs in Brooklyn after WW II, including the complex at Concord Village near the Brooklyn Bridge. He was also one of the architects who designed the Fort Greene Houses projects.
We moved from a Candela building on the UWS (yes, full service, maint. higher psf than this, which is very reasonable.) I liked living in a full service building — besides the doormen, you had porters, a live-in super with 2 handymen who could fix just about everything and took care of those little jobs like plumbing a toiled, patching plaster/wiring ceiling fans. I figure we saved a grand or two each year on stuff like that, plus avoided the anxiety about being ripped off by a tradesman you don’t know.
What distinguishes his middle-class buildings is the sense of flow and the lack of wasted space, and the interior proportions are just right. I’ve never been in one of his grand UES buildings but I suspect there’s a reason they’re coveted.
The ONLY drawback I can see to this place is the fact that it’s really a 2 br, and the 2nd br is on the smallish side, so if you have 2 kids, they better be young or of the same sex. Maid’s room is for office or pantry/storage. If it were a true 3 br, it would indeed still command over a mil, I think. Still, i think it will move fast at this price.
Great space in a great location in a great building. Clearly, the updates (kitchen/bath) and views are lacking, but the price isnt too off. Maintenance is high, but not higher than manhattan. This is an apartment you buy because you want manhattan living, but in brooklyn.
McKenzie, Ive lived in doorman buildings and frankly they did little for me but call up deliveries and accept packages. Furniture delivery/cable guy happens a couple times a year – not something the doorman cost makes so worthwhile. My doorman-living friends agree. I dont have a doorman anymore and I dont miss it – supers do all the important stuff (repairs, etc), not doormen (and many supers, such as mine, accept packages etc).
McKenzie,
i’m neither 17 nor an aging hippie…most people who desire full service amenities tend to live in manhattan not bklyn though some people like feel differently. no problem.. why don’t u just buy the place, make a sh!t load of $ and enjoy your clogged drains, broken phones, sticky windows, slow toilets, appliance, furniture and cable guys….no one’s stopping u…..sounds pretty delicious….
bk14,
that is just you,
you obviously have time on your hands and do not appreciate the deliciousness of having people at home taking care of things for you while you’re at work making money. Taking care of things like clogged drains, broken phones, sticky windows, slow toilets, appliance delivery and installation, furniture delivery, cable problems, etc etc etc. if you think it is primarily about pizza you are an idiot in a dorm.
Sorry, get real pal.
McKenzie,
i hear u. the lucky buyer gets to drop 180K and spend $5,600/mo for 30 yrs…assuming maintenance never goes up and nothing unexpected ever happens. The owner gets an intermedary to announce friends and tell u when the pizza arrives. i always thought people who got off on “full service buildings” were the same people who enjoy dormitories, student gov’t and co op board meetings ….but that’s just me
“I’ve never understood the appeal of full-service buildings”
I’m a fairly young person but I have to admit I am surprised often by the childishness of some of the comments on brownstoner. I mean, how old do you have to be to completely understand the appeal of full service? Is this blog like the romper room of real estate? Are you guys all really seventeen year olds? or just aging hippies?
dirty hipster, what are you talking about? Every time you enter a doorman building you have to give your name and the doorman has to call up to the apartment to verify you are expected.
Also, many large buildings have full-time, live-in supers but not doormen. They’re not the same thing.
This place seems pretty reasonably priced for what it is, but I suppose everything must come down.
Why no picture of the kitchen?