Condos of the Day: Price Cuts at 543 Dean Street
As it approaches the six-month mark of sales, the four-unit brownstone condo conversion at 543 Dean Street is only one-quarter sold. So it should come as no surprise that the remaining three apartments just received another price cut: Apartment 1 from $999,000 to $965,000; 543 Dean Street, Apartment 2 from $799,000 to $765,000; 543 Dean…
As it approaches the six-month mark of sales, the four-unit brownstone condo conversion at 543 Dean Street is only one-quarter sold. So it should come as no surprise that the remaining three apartments just received another price cut: Apartment 1 from $999,000 to $965,000; 543 Dean Street, Apartment 2 from $799,000 to $765,000; 543 Dean Street, Apartment 4 from $975,000 to $939,000. None of these are exactly dramatic reductions so we’ll be surprised if they generate a new wave of interest. Much more important to the project’s prospects: Clarification on what the future holds for Atlantic Yards.
543 Dean Street [Street Easy] GMAP
543 Condos of the Day: 543 Dean Street [Brownstoner]
Thanks slopefarm for at least being realistic about what’s killing the site, even though you yourself are quick to judge and should loosen up as well. And for the record, it was more like two weeks or less that Dave, Jerri and I were commenting. Your other reasons for the decline of the site are exactly what happened.
Further, please note that while you may have been annoyed as hell, the threads we posted in had triple and quadruple the number of posts as the other ones on the same day and that includes if you took out our own comments.
Ruined the site faded type haters? Wow, you’re giving us way too much credit. Our influence, negative or positive, had virtually nothing to do with the current levels of participation. And as much as I despise The What, I’ll be the first to admit the site is far less busy without him.
3:38/4:07, thanks for proving my point that haters like you have nothing to contribute other than to tell others to get lost. Why don’t you comment more on topic?
We haven’t been around for at least a week yet the numbers have dwindled to a seemingly all time low. If we chased people away, the numbers wouldn’t have continued going down each day and there would not be this few comments.
Keep blaming us as you have nothing topical to contribute!
Oh, come on, 4:07. J,B&D got carried away for what, like, three weeks? Annoying as hell? Yes. Ruined the site? Hardly. The level of gratuitous invective, hostility and profanity of many (largely anonymous) commenters has been far worse over the past year than before and I imagine many of the old timers who in the past had thoughtful contributions to make have just slowly drifted away. There is just less of a sense of community here than there used to be. And this site has always had posting difficulties. Perhaps also, the fact that the market is not overheated the way it was a few years ago has also reduced the interest level so that it takes a celebrity siting at an open house to get everyone excited. Perhaps there are too many who are bitter (oops, so much for my presidential candidacy) at losing value or not being able to berak into an expensive market or there are two many realtors who got in too late and can’t get inventory and have too much time to stare at the computer. For whatever reason, fewer and fewer are interested in engaging in substantive discussions about any of this site’s topics. Now, G-d forbid, you should want to paint your moldings an unorthodox color or post a picture of yo0ur floors or put in a whole house fan or ask a question that someone thinks your lawyer should be able to answer, and someone is going to bite your head off and call you names and worse on this site. No wonder people who have sunk their hearts, souls and wallets into their houses no longer want to chat about it on this site (Mrs. Limestone and Peter in BedStuy are some of the worthy exceptions). But I don’t blame the brief three-way dalliance of Biff, Jerri and Dave for the decline in posts (although they were awfully quick to be harsh and nasty toward their critics). That seems like a stretch to me.
4:07 – ha ha ha – that’s funny. But truly, I think the bubble bursting is the cause of the demise. People were coming on here to get a thrill about how much their property was potentially worth. There’s no thrill in price cuts. But I do think there would be interest Brownstoner if you posted substantial articles about the ongoing subprime mess – people’s opinions about what to do, how long real estate values will go down, etc. I find I am always trolling around the net now for these kinds of articles. Of course a picture of a stroller always seems to work wonders as well.
The combination of posting difficulties and painfully personal, three-way, “TMI” conversations among “The Unholy Three” of Jerri, Biff and Dave have hurt the site. Hurt it very, very badly.
Ease the air out of your head Biff. People wanted you to get lost because your comments were getting embarrassing and wildly off topic.
But yes, something is wrong when even the What, who seems to do nothing but follow this blog and seek pleasure in the pain of others, stops posting.
Yep, Brooklynnative. It’s sad. All the haters that were telling posters like daveinbedstuy, Jerri and me to stay on topic and get lost apparently had little to say other than that. We pretty much got lost and they still have nothing to say…
As we posted earlier in the week, we’re moving to a new server this weekend so commenting should be back to normal next week. Sorry about this.
Apartment 1 is just crazy. I’ll never understand the developers who think including a nice 300 square foot tomb in the basement somehow justifies an extra $200k
I’d take the parlor level, without the tomb, for $700K and buy myself a nice vacation condo in Miami for the difference. Greedy bastards.