Condo of the Day: 154 Broadway, #4
This loft at 154 Broadway in Williamsburg is starting to look like a pretty good deal. We first noticed it back in 2007 when the 1,710-square-foot pad was asking $1,350,000. From what we can tell from StreetEasy, the price appears to have been lowered in 2008 to $1,175,000 before getting taken off the market. Now…
This loft at 154 Broadway in Williamsburg is starting to look like a pretty good deal. We first noticed it back in 2007 when the 1,710-square-foot pad was asking $1,350,000. From what we can tell from StreetEasy, the price appears to have been lowered in 2008 to $1,175,000 before getting taken off the market. Now it’s back on again with a price tag of $985,000; the taxes and common charges are only a combined $1,009. We’re not loving some of the design touches, but they’re not anything that should significantly impact the sales price, and the space itself is pretty sweet. What do you think?
154 Broadway, #4 [Apts & Lofts] GMAP P*Shark
PS 17 and PS 84 both have the potential to be great schools. They need parents who care, not parents who desperately try to get their kids into PS132. It’s not my neighborhood anymore, but the whole thing makes me a little sad. PS 84 is getting a French immersion program? Uh, hello, it’s in a SPANISH-speaking neighborhood? I realize they were trying to cater to the Europeans who have migrated to the southside en masse, but half of them are from south america anyways. Or Germany.
This is very close to the JMZ, so I would not call it inconvenient. L is a 10 or 15 minute walk, though (or a few stops on the B62, which stops downstairs).
PS84 is NOT a reason to buy here. The school has been a dysfunctional mess for years, and the new principal has only been on board for a few months (the previous principal came from PS132 with great fanfare, but things only got worse). Wait and see. (The school is less than half full, because a lot of parents send their kids to PS17, PS132, the lower east side or parochial schools. It SHOULD be a great school, but it has a long, long way to go.)
And TECCS, while not hard to get into, is two miles away in the no-mans land between Bed Stuy and the Broadway Triangle part of Williamsburg (not to mention that G train is about the least convenient transpo option from here).
Based on the floorplan linked above, it doesn’t look like this pace has one bedroom, never mind the two claimed in the listing.
Looks like there’s no window in the bedroom, er, I mean mezzanine.
Posted by: kramer at March 11, 2010 3:55 PM
What would you call that? Because in NYC you cannot claim it is a legal bedroom.
Looks like there’s no window in the bedroom, er, I mean mezzanine.
gkw – no! not the owner.
bought a condo in North Burg several years ago.
basically, i walk/jog a lot and go out, so i know where stuff is. i walk from the northside everyday to the JMZ because i get off only 2 stops in, and there’s no wait for train, and it’s not crowded. and, i like walking.
fyi – don’t think this is an inconvenient location by anybody’s standard – have subway 2 blocks away. there’s lots of stores and restaurants on both broadway and south bedford. deli’s, banks, diners line broadway near the havemeyer intersection. also, nice walk to schaefer landing pier in the summer. several outstanding places just across the street: marlow and sons, marlow and daughters, DOC wines, Dressler and Diner.
i know a fair amount about local schools. there’s also a 2 year old charter called TECCS that’s not too hard to win a lottery seat into. it’s near the flushing G train, just east on Broadway from here.
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Those lights are making me hot. I don’t think I’d enjoy living on a “Real World” set
total agreeance
*rob*
Only if teach Biff how to pronounce sukkah, DS.
The deck is perfect for building a sukkah. Sold.