Condo of the Day: 838 President Street, #3
This new listing at 838 President Street in Park Slope ain’t your typical brownstone apartment. The duplex condo consists of the original top floor of the house plus a modern master-suite rooftop addition. The whole shebang adds up to 1,340 square feet of indoor space and another 600 square feet of outdoor space. The challenge…
This new listing at 838 President Street in Park Slope ain’t your typical brownstone apartment. The duplex condo consists of the original top floor of the house plus a modern master-suite rooftop addition. The whole shebang adds up to 1,340 square feet of indoor space and another 600 square feet of outdoor space. The challenge may be finding a buyer who wants to pay $1,325,000 for a fourth-floor walk-up, albeit it a mighty nice one.
838 President Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Wait a sec: Not everyone has children, 11217? In Park Slope?
Are you sure? I think you should check again and get back to us. 😉
RE: kids downstairs/parents upstairs, I think DIBS is right that the older kids will love it, especially when they get older. (But not the little ones). I used to have to go past my parents’ bedroom when I’d come home late-night; it involved a lot of clandestine activity to not wake them and to quell the presence of the night’s activities, if you know what I mean.
I’d put my second living room/den up there. The room with the TV. The place where you hang out. You still have two bedrooms downstairs, altho bathroom is unfortunate and closet space is lacking
I wouldn’t like kids being downstairs alone. Worse to have them upstairs alone as the room is nicer and the only time I’ve been robbed in NY, they came in thru the deck off the bedroom!
I dont like kids and decks anyway. Pools, decks… those are for people with stronger stomachs and/or smarter kids.
Btw, not everyone has children. In fact, even in babyland, only about 1/4th of people have kids.
This would be a very sexy apartment for a couple without kids.
You’d pay upwards of 2 or 3 million for something like this in Manhattan with this kind of square footage and outdoor space.
To each his own, 11217.
Do you all buy apartments for other people primarily or for yourself?
Personally I wouldn’t give 2 shits about guests having to “traipse” through my masterbedroom since that probably would happen a couple times a year.
What I would love though, is waking up and going out to sit and read the paper, get a little sun and unwind on the deck with a bottle of wine and look at the skyline before bed.
You make it sound like you revolve your entire life (and floorplan) around the couple times a year you might have a guest over. And if these “guests” are your friends, do you really think they care about seeing your bedroom? I mean, in NYC pretty much every guest has seen all parts of your apartment, anyway.
I guarantee you, said guests aren’t going to mind “traipsing” up to see that bedroom and deck.
Fjorder, the kids would love that layout with unsupervised access to the kitchen all night long, as well as the TV!!!
Excellent point about the kids’ bedroom, Fjorder. I hadn’t thought of that.
If I had the money, I would somehow try to reconfigure the whole apartment and have the bedrooms downstairs and the living room upstairs off the terrace.
Yeah, I don’t want to have to traipse upstairs and through the bedroom to barbecue & entertain on the deck. It’s rather worthless in this layout.
Nice renovation. I agree that the floorplan is compromised a bit but some of you need to think differently when it comes to outdoor space, especially with this one! So the hell what if your friends have to trudge through your bedroom or you may have to carry grilled meats past your duvet; it’s the city folks and outdoor space is a premium!
Would you folks care to share with me what you think about having young kids sleeping on floor w/ main entrance while parents are on floor above? I’d like to be the first person someone encounters if they come into my home uninvited.