Condo of the Day: One Main Street, #3A
Given that this is the best building in Brooklyn’s most expensive neighborhood, we were a little surprised to see a price cut come over the wire, but then we looked a little closer at Apartment 3A at One Main Street in Dumbo. It’s 2,198 square feet according to the floorplan, but in the photos it…
Given that this is the best building in Brooklyn’s most expensive neighborhood, we were a little surprised to see a price cut come over the wire, but then we looked a little closer at Apartment 3A at One Main Street in Dumbo. It’s 2,198 square feet according to the floorplan, but in the photos it underwhelms. Maybe it’s a matter of staging, but it’s hard to see someone shelling out the asking price of $2,389,000 (down from $2,500,000) when this place at 30 Main Street can be had for $1,585,000. Waddya think? This place just need a spruce-up or does the price have to come down?
1 Main Street, #3A [Sotheby’s] GMAP P*Shark
Exterior photo by Planetgordon.com
This listing makes the C-Unit in 30 Main apartment look like a steal.
I agree…it’s understaged, and there are a lot of chairs…but look more closely. There are some NICE chairs there. An Eames or two, and a couple of other name-chairs. (And three or four Ikea stools). I think the owners picked ’em off the street, and now has to figure out what to do with them. I actually like the layout, and if the light is good, it could be amazing. It is a bit awkward walking right into the kitchen, but it would be easy enough to put up a wall there, and there’s a coat closet, landing spot by the entrance. That being said, it’s overpriced, but I think they’ll find a buyer.
Well the place next door sold for 3 mill and there the front door opens into the half bathroom.
I never thought I’d look at a New York condo listing and think it was positively cheap. But that’s because I had never, until today, seen a one-bedroom apartment (yes, one) for sale for $2,895,000 (or a rather staggering $2,017 per square foot). Did I mention it’s not in America’s most expensive city, but in San Francisco? See it here: http://www.openhomesphotography.com/1200California25A/
Sam, your fantasies about the “rich” and their kitchens being ideally somehow unseen except by the “staff” are way off (unless you’re kidding, which, admittedly, you could be and I just don’t know it). Especially for a 2 million dollar apartment which is – laughably but truly – not that far off of the average cost of a 2-3 bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Perhaps a 10-15 million dollar townhouse or some fancy schmancy 5th Avenue co-op might see attitudes akin to this, but…
It isn’t like we’re talking about a clawfoot bathtub or toilet in the middle of the apartment here (which YES, I have seen – my first boyfriend in New York had a tiny apartment in Greenwhich Village with the only bathtub located in the kitchen) rather, we’re seeing an open entry/kitchen/living room which is actually desirable to many people. Why “gross”?
It is all about diminished expectations. here are affluent young people who know their jobs but not much else who think it’s Ok to pay 2.3 million dollars for a home where you guests walk in and are in your kitchen. It’s nuts.
For 2.3 million, I want a foyer and a reception room that impresses, then I want the food to appear magically from some place that is never seen because I will not be cooking dinner and neither will my wife. We would be rich people. What the f..k are you kiddies thinking. Hello??????
Who does it appeal to? The anal-compulsive chef?
walking into the kitchen/open area appeals to some people. i don’t think it’s a negative.
this place is huge, and family sized, but i think it’s super over priced.
My first loft had a kitchen right as you walked in. Everyone thought it was hillarious. We all loved it. Of course I paid $180,000 for the place. For two million dollars I would sooner open an important vein than have a kitchen counter greeting my guests as they walk in the door.