Condo of the Day: Top of the Oro
Say what you want about the design of the Oro exterior (we’ve heard a wide range of opinions), but the views from the top are going to be pretty killer. So we were interested to see an open house listed this past weekend on the top floor in Unit 40F. With three bedrooms and three…
Say what you want about the design of the Oro exterior (we’ve heard a wide range of opinions), but the views from the top are going to be pretty killer. So we were interested to see an open house listed this past weekend on the top floor in Unit 40F. With three bedrooms and three baths, the 1,647-square-foot pad has definite family appeal too. The price of $1,610,000 is pretty high for the area, but there have been a couple of similarly-sized units at the nearby Belltel Lofts that have gone for around this price. We bet they’ll get within 10 percent of the ask on this one but, then again, we’re bullish on Downtown in general. (Disclosure: The Oro is a former advertiser on Brownstoner.)
306 Gold Street, #40F [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
12/17 2:57 – ceiling mount and matte finish screen. you need to step up your game, friend. this is how we do in bk.
2:51 = assistant to the assistant architect for oro condominiums
Am I the only one who cares that IT HAS A POOL!?
A similar apt in Forte was on that NY “OpenHouse” infomercial/show. Woman looked at it — loved view but passsed — didn’t like the neighborhood.
And you can’t put your flat screen TV in the living area — no wall except next to kitchen and there would be glare from the windows. I love the look -just woudln’t want to actually live there as it is.
2:43 – This 2007 NYC, your off by a price factor of 10 when your talking of butlers
While I’m not saying this is the greatest layout ever – open layouts are fairly typical today and hiding the cooking from the guests are a thing of the past (for good or bad)
Again if your talking about they type of entertaining where butler’s escort you around and ‘staff’ is in the kitchen while hosts mingle – then you are talking about a far higher price point then 1.6M (and a much different neighborhood then Flatbush Ave Ext.)
walk into the apartment, feel the proportions, take in the view. much easier to hate in kilobytes than in person. trust me. the people who conceived, planned and designed this building do those things for a living. the critics in this thread, at least the vast majority of them, not so much. i’ll put my money on the pros.
The apartment is nice, needs more closets, but nice. The building’s location on the other hand, kind of sucks. Where exactly is it? Kind of on the Fort Greene/downtown boundary?
Lots of upscale shopping on Flatbush and Myrtle? Prestige price for Fulton Mall location. I Don’t know. I guess folks who are new to Brooklyn and think it is all hip, and all swell, will take the plunge. Convenient if you teach at Poly Tech and inherited ten million dollars. There must be at least one of you.
1.6 million for this unit is luxury living. Entering an apartment and the first thing you go past is the kitchen is a bad layout. When entertaining, I don’t want the first thing my guests to see is the mayhem in the kitchen from cooking and bags of groceries, etc.
When people enter that apartment, they should come in through the foyer and then, bam…they should see the wall of glass. The butler escorting them in shouldn’t have to tell them, we’re going to go past the kitchen, but don’t look.
I think it is kind of cute the way a certain segment of Brownstoners are so wed to the idea that the only civilized/reasonable/moral way to live is in a 19th century townhouse.
– its almost Amish in its devotion…
I think eventually we might be able to create a tourism around it; people will come from miles to see these people in their quaint homes, driving their old volvos and subarus shopping at their specialized food markets – now if only they had some sort of cookie…..