Condos of the Day: 335 Warren Street
The Scarano designed condos at 335 Warren Street in Boerum Hill aren’t exactly flying off the shelf. When we took a look in November, Brown Harris Stevens had taken over for Two Trees after six months or so; Brooklyn Heights Real Estate currently has the reins, and as best we can tell, at least five…
The Scarano designed condos at 335 Warren Street in Boerum Hill aren’t exactly flying off the shelf. When we took a look in November, Brown Harris Stevens had taken over for Two Trees after six months or so; Brooklyn Heights Real Estate currently has the reins, and as best we can tell, at least five of the eight units are available. The weird thing is that Property Shark shows that two of the five are resales. Current prices range from $585,000 to $975,000.
The Warren Lofts: Availability [Brooklyn Heights RE] GMAP P*Shark
Prices Too Lofty on Warren Street? [Brownstoner]
The condo’s website is down. Uh oh, not a good sign.
By the way, I think I had an experience with that same realtor last year while looking at condos and coops in the area. She was pushy and abrassive. She was too quick to dismiss our concerns about an apartment she showed us and completely turned me off to the idea of purchasing a place I would have otherwise seriously considered. It was the condo building (or is it coop) right across the street from the Brooklyn House of Detention and next to criminal court. Anyone know if she was showing an apartment there?
I went to see the apt today after reading all those horrible reviews, thinking I’ll bring my architect and transform over 2400 SQFT into a unique & inspiring apt, only to find an architectural disaster, from layouts that even god cannot change, to horrific dead space overlooking an ugly, dirty backyard,
The best part was a bedroom that actually had a window that literally was facing a brick wall!!! not almost, not partially, simply facing a wall!
Scarano is cruel & sadistic, or just a very bitter man, regardless- he should not be allowed to be build or someone will sue him for visual harassment,
Please only go see the apt for amusement, or slightly intoxicated -to ease the pain.
There is another building almost exactly like this on 16th st. between 5th and 6th. Worst lay layout ever: Stairs steeper than a ship, More like ladders really with holes or hatches to climb through when you reach the top. Tiny bedrooms. Useless areas where nothing would fit. Giant windows which no standard covering would fit. Absolutely crazy!
high fives to mothra and designernyc. These were far and away the most strangely designed condos we saw. The “garden” duplex was useless space made more useless by the fact that one room wasn’t even attached to the rest of the place. You had to walk outside to get to the “guest room.” And the stairs in the 1BR loft were so narrow that they were effectively just a permanent ladder.
But if you love you some cobble hill, they’re in a fantastic location. I say not worth it.
mothra, you win the award for “best real estate horror writing” this week. yuck!
Clarification: the window wasn’t 1 foot — the concrete pit it looked out on was 1 foot wide with a grate at the sidewalk level that was intended to let in natural light. Trash and cigarette butts from the sidewalk had clogged the drain, which had caused the window-well to fill with rainwater.
I thought maybe they should add “built-in aquarium” to the ad… turn lemons into lemonade?
I saw the ground floor duplex a couple of months ago, & could not BELIEVE what they were asking $900k+ for! In addition to a cramped studio apt with “garden” (actually the bleak little roof of the adjoining cellar), what they were marketing as the “bedroom” was a cellar-floor space with a 1-foot window onto a grated sewage pit, complete with garbage from the sidewalk above in a soup of foul brown water and mosquitos swarming around. The other cellar room was only accessible from the kitchen via a stairway through the neighbor’s patio, and was full of black mold. I felt sorry for the realtor. Wish I’d had my camera; it was a real horror show!
oh (and since I am so fuming upon flashback) WTF, this is brooklyn, not “build sh*t and they will come” manhattan…we do not have to buy overly priced, chopped up apartments (yet). There are far too many lovely ones available.
I looked at these several months ago. The apartments are really narrow, weird layouts and the rooms are small. You couldn’t even ascend/descend the steps comfortably to up to the loft area. I asked the agent if those were even to code and she said “i believe so” but admitted they are a problem. ugh, these were horrible no wonder there are still so many