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This 1,737-square-foot spread at 70 Washington Street in Dumbo has been on the market for $1,900,000 since December without so much as a price shave. It kinda makes you wonder how serious the owner is about selling. It’s a great pad, to be sure, but it’s a lot more expensive on a per-square-foot basis than the 4th floor loft we featured a couple of weeks ago. Those Brooklyn Bridge views are definitely worth something but don’t forget that someday the Watchtower parking lot to the south could be developed and the Dock Street development now appears to have a good chance of happening.
70 Washington Street, #9G [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark



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  1. Heather always has the best comments.

    The quintessential Dumbo loft. I like the bank of windows on two sides in the LR/DR/kitchen. Haven’t we seen this apartment on Brownstoner before though? Or do all Dumbo apartments look similar?

    As for the price, it’s about $1,000/sqf which I guess is pretty typical in the fancier parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan these days. I wouldn’t know.

  2. So expensive. So bland. Someday I must investigate this Dumbo thing — last time I was there there was one gourmet deli and the bar between the bridges. I’ve said it before, but it remains a neighborhood that I don’t really understand. Sort of an upscale Newport Mall, I guess, without Newport Mall’s weird post-neutron bomb charm. Like Tribeca with no interesting Chinatown next to it. Like Long Island City’s sad, brave little aspirations — LIC could be DUMBO too, except for all of the developers having questionable taste.

  3. The Dock Street development will definitely happen and the witnesses will sell their lot as soon as things pick up. Those are both very valid points to take into consideration when offering a counter-bid on this unit.
    The apartment itself is a knockout though. I love the layout and the high floor.

  4. Given that Elliman is sooooo poorly managed in Brooklyn, it is no surprise you were never called back. Obviously, the incompetent office manager should have been aware of misrepresentations made in its substantive misrepresentations. Hopefully, Elliman will wake up to the problem of poor office management in the Brooklyn offices before it is too late.

  5. I look forward to the co-op/condo of the day because usually it posts apartments that are at least somewhat affordable. Lately however, specifically the past two days, we have seen apartments with multi-million dollar price tags. Does anyone feel that this section is best served by posts of under a million? Perhaps there should be a under a million property of the day? Is this asking too much? Am I way off here?