Checking In on the Baltic House Condos
We haven’t taken a look at 360 Baltic since last February, when it was one of three developments under construction on the street. The nine units in the building, which is between Smith and Hoyt, are now on the market, and they’re all fairly pricey. The cheapest are a couple of 1035-square-foot two-bedrooms that cost…
We haven’t taken a look at 360 Baltic since last February, when it was one of three developments under construction on the street. The nine units in the building, which is between Smith and Hoyt, are now on the market, and they’re all fairly pricey. The cheapest are a couple of 1035-square-foot two-bedrooms that cost $825,000, and the most expensive are a pair of 1500-square-footers listed at $981,000. The ad for Baltic House touts that it “mixes the best of both brownstones and highrises – intimate in scale but with the luxury feel of a Manhattan condo” and of course notes its proximity to Smith Street, “Brooklyn’s shopping and dining Mecca.” So what does a million bucks buy you here? Some private outdoor space, some high-end finishes including CaesarStone counters, washer/dryers, etc. The location of the condo is definitely hard to beat, but the prices here are another story. Anyone been to one of the open houses?
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Fairly priced? Really? I mean come on… For the same amount of money, I can live in the same square footage in a 2 bedroom at the Oro and get a swimming pool, a screening room, a gym, a doorman and concierge, possibly a nice view and other amenities. They need to drop the price another $50,000 before it’s even close to being fairly priced. I mean it’s right across the street from a public high school for crying out loud. Have you ever lived across the street from a High School in Brooklyn? I have. Wait until the unsuspecting buyers learn the hard way how loud it is outside their windows as students line up to get into the building for the first class session of the day at 7:30 AM. Better yet, how about all those after school fights outside your door at 3PM and the rapid police response. Nice!
I did go to the open house. If you hate look of new modern buildings – you’ll hate this one too but I thought it was well-constructed and seemed good sized. I didn’t think the bedrooms were small nor lacking storage space.
The ‘duplex’ which is 1st level plus ‘dugout’ lower level was not so great to me – but for some might work. Problem was from kitchen/living – no access to outside. 1st had to go downstairs to ‘rec-room’ aka 2nd bdroom. There was patio on that level then stairs from patio to small yard. Also on street level on street was big bedroom – all glass window with sidewalk right up to it.
‘Penthouse’ I thought was great – and it is an elevator building – rare find. 2 big terraces -partly covered. I would not mind living in that apt at all.
There are no closets — three tiny ones in a 3bedroom (and the bedrooms are smallish).
2:21 and 3:25, I could go away, but then I would NEVER learn how to contribute topical, intelligent posts like you two do. Such brilliance.
Dave, I’m on Smith Street often. Maybe we’ll bump into each other at the meat market (I’m making this way too easy for the haters).
What kind of a moron compares Boerum Hill to 5th Avenue??? I shop at los Paisanos all the time. I don’t want to run into that idiot fro Housewives i there with that ugly ass goatee
Jerr and Biff two Dic Heads . But I love them, I wish they would go away.
Jerri is a real shit bag.
Ask Biff.
Where’s Jerri today?