Condo of the Day: 32 Berkeley Place, #3
Will $850 a foot fly in the Center Slope these days? Well, we’ll find out by what happens with a new brownstone duplex listing at 32 Berkeley Place. The 1,130-square-foot pad has nice old floors and sweet new roof deck to recommend it. The kitchen? Not so much. The combined monthly costs are only $452….
Will $850 a foot fly in the Center Slope these days? Well, we’ll find out by what happens with a new brownstone duplex listing at 32 Berkeley Place. The 1,130-square-foot pad has nice old floors and sweet new roof deck to recommend it. The kitchen? Not so much. The combined monthly costs are only $452. For $939,000 in this kind of a set-up, we want to get a real third bedroom. But who knows—maybe someone will fall in love with the views.
32 Berkeley Place, #3 [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I’ve posted two comments on here today which never showed up.
It’s been happening all week.
Honestly, I’m getting totally fed up with it and am considering just not dealing with it anymore.
A couple people I’ve talked to have said the same.
Brownstoner is on the verge of a major loss in readership if you can’t get this worked out soon I fear.
I just can’t see how this place is worth $5450 a month — and that’s putting 20% down. There has to be some reasonable relation between rents and buying prices, and there just isn’t one here — buying means you’re paying at least 75% more a month than you would if you rented. And that doesn’t count the $15000 a year in investment income you’re giving up on your down payment. You’d need massive price appreciation for this deal to make sense, and there’s no reason to expect it, given the run-up in prices over the last five years and given the fact that this apartment is really not designed as a two-bedroom.
Sam, are you getting the multiple posting thing happening too or some other issue?
“Is there a material difference in price for an apartment on a second floor brownstone walkup versus a third floor walkup”
Actually the top floor like this should cost more because not only do you have the views, you don’t have to listen to the people in the apartment above you tramping around on your ceiling. Most of the battles in our building are between people complaining about noise above and what carpets they should put down over the wood floors they paid so much for.
Sorry about that, but the combo of the NY Mag article on Monday, Daily News on Tuesday and New York Times today are putting a lot of stress on it. We’re working on increasing our capacity but can’t do it overnight unfortunately.
stoner,
do you want people to post their comments or not? what’s going on with your server?
Can’t you fix the glitch? I think it is driving everybody crazy!
The so-called second bedroom has huge french doors into the living room. That makes it a part of the living room. You can see that the current owner is using it that way–that’s where the TV is. To make this a 2 bedroom you’d have to block off that wall and put in a doorway. As is, this is a one droom plus den.
I live two blocks away and work in midtown. 40 minutes at rush hour, but you need to leave 50 minutes to be safe. Unless you’re talking about midtown Brooklyn??
Awful layout:
(1) den is accessed only through the second bedroom, so plan on waking up the kids if you work late, (2) deck is accessed only from your bedroom, — hey guys, come to the roofdeck, don’t mind our dirty clothes and unmade bed, and (2) small ugly kitchen.
30% overpriced, notwithstanding all the broker’s postings above.
$750k and not a Dinar more.