Condo of the Day: 55 Poplar Street, #2F
If you’re dying to live in Brooklyn Heights but your taste leans more towards the modern, you could do worse than to end up in this one-bedroom loft at 55 Poplar Street. Granted the space has put its best foot forward with a top-notch renovation and some well-staged pictures, but the 13-foot ceilings are for…
If you’re dying to live in Brooklyn Heights but your taste leans more towards the modern, you could do worse than to end up in this one-bedroom loft at 55 Poplar Street. Granted the space has put its best foot forward with a top-notch renovation and some well-staged pictures, but the 13-foot ceilings are for real; they also make possible the two mezzanine spaces. The asking price is $789,000 and combined common charges are $946 a month, not bad for a 1,054-square-foot space in this neighborhood.
55 Poplar Street, #2F [Halstead] GMAP P*Shark
> What do you get for the $946 a month?
Hopefully a live-in chiropractor to treat the effects of Low Ceilinged Mezzanine Stoop Syndrome.
That is hilarious.
“If you’re dying to live in Brooklyn Heights ” —
BkHts is not for the dying…it is for the living dead.
Hard to tell from photo, but couldn’t they have dropped the mezz levels down about a 1.5ft, so that the upper level would be somewhat usable to most people?
That’d make the kitchen space tight, but better two cramped yet usable spaces rather than one roomy-one useless, no?
The bathroom is really nice. Poplar Street is a lovely Heights Street, I think some posters have never set foot in Brooklyn Heights.
This building used to be an orphanage and it does have that Victorian Gothic look to it.
…please sir…may I have some more?
-Oliver Twist
By babs on April 27, 2010 1:09 PM
Bridge Harbor Heights is in the north Heights, the oldest and most beautiful part IMO. However, Poplar St was decimated by Robert Moses’s BQE and several historic blocks were lost on both Poplar and Middagh Sts(inluding the house lived in by Carson McCullers, W H Auden, and other writers). This complex was a former school, augmented by several newly-constructed buildings, converted to condos in the 1980s.
But very much in the Heights and close to the High St. A/C, as well as everything on Henry St and PS 8, plus Fulton Ferry and DUMBO (which weren’t all that when it was converted).
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Nice historical perspective; thanks, Babs.
I too love the North Heights; some really fantastic frame houses and older federal style homes. BUT…once you ‘go downhill’ to this section, it really does feel like you have left the Heights. I have looked at several units in this building and its neighbor, 75 Poplar. 1) I don’t really want modern, and 2) it really does feel like netherland, Heights proper or not.
It’s a condo. There’s no underlying mortgage. What do you get for the $946 a month?
should read as “mezzanie storage areas” … or “opium lounges”
> It’s for dwarves.
Tsk tsk. The PC term is “differently tall.”