Condos of the Day: 118 Greenpoint Avenue
Sales launched only a few weeks ago but already 4 out of the 15 units at the Canvas Condos at 118 Greenpoint Avenue have accepted offers on them. Frankly, we’re not surprised. This is one of the nicer boutique projects we’ve seen in a while. With prices ranging from $359,000 to $699,000, it’s well priced…
Sales launched only a few weeks ago but already 4 out of the 15 units at the Canvas Condos at 118 Greenpoint Avenue have accepted offers on them. Frankly, we’re not surprised. This is one of the nicer boutique projects we’ve seen in a while. With prices ranging from $359,000 to $699,000, it’s well priced for the Greenpoint buyer. The location ain’t too shabby either (assuming North Brooklyn is your thing). Hopefully this’ll send a message to developers that a tasteful conversion of an old building can still sell in this market. Stop the unnecessary teardowns!
118 Greenpoint Avenue Listings [Aptsandlofts] GMAP P*Shark
While it’s cool that they kept the original building, the layout and fixtures are boring and that stretch of the avenue has some serious cons. You could do better with your $360k elsewhere in Brooklyn.
ahhhhh smelly industrial greenpoint just the way i liked it when i was living there.
used to live in gpt, closer to mccarren. not a bad hood, a little gritty and blustery (hard to describe, but you know what i mean if you have ever lived there). summers often bring a waft of sewer aroma, even down by mccarren, so i know these will get it double. pricing seems “ok” for the hood, but i personally left for park slope and will never look back at any price. i wonder how many of the 4 in contract were the 1br ~350k ones. at that price, it could be compelling for a single or barren couple.
go to the map above and follow greenpoint ave towards newtown creek about 2.5 blocks. those green rectagular shapes are the primary settling tanks for the city’s largest wastewater treatment plant. about 350 million gallons a day are treated there. still smell like a bargain?
I lived across the street from this location for three years. Greenpoint is wonderful, but get use to viewing hundreds of large and loud trucks drive up and down GP Avenue on their way to the LIE.
Also, this is located directly next to a poultry slaughter house. Every morning at 6 am there is chicken delivery and every night, around 11 pm, a garbage truck empties the slaughtered guts – very loud!
The price is right, but the location is so wrong. I just hope those in contract know how loud this street is.
the brownstoners who know little about williamsburg constantly refer to the Mill as if it’s so great – it’s not. many of the new units and new buildings are way nicer and way better run.
greenpoint is great for families – excellent schools.
Yep very nice, on a failry well preserved stretch of street, and on the uncrowded G too (unless they open that Atlantic Ave link).
While the big windows and high ceilings are great the potential for a loft vibe is ruined by a banal and generic layout – front space divided into a too narrow living room by putting in a too big bedroom/closet/bathroom. Honestly I have seem this layout in pretty much 90% of the lame condo developments in brooklyn. I just can’t believe you think these are interesting brownstoner – sometimes your taste is pretty suburban IMHO.
Well its a landmark, which would account for the non-teardown part. (Although where that cornice came from still puzzles me.) But yeah, tasteful conversions (even in non-landmarks) seem to be selling well – the Mill, for instance, or the former paint factory on Roebling and N 10th (or so).
Oh, and this is/was a (gasp!) Bob Scarano project.