Condos of the Day: 24 Remsen Street
They didn’t cut any corners on this one. After a lengthy renovation, the brick-and-limestone mansion at 24 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights has re-emerged as a four-unit condominium that, from the looks of it, aimed to preserve as much architectural detail while giving the 1896 residence a lighter, slightly more modern feel. It looks very…

They didn’t cut any corners on this one. After a lengthy renovation, the brick-and-limestone mansion at 24 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights has re-emerged as a four-unit condominium that, from the looks of it, aimed to preserve as much architectural detail while giving the 1896 residence a lighter, slightly more modern feel. It looks very well done to us. Another sweetener: The building is also a stone’s throw from the promenade. Quality has a price though: All four units are priced well north of $1,000 a foot. The third-floor floor-through, for example, clocks in at 1,441 square feet and has a maintenance of $1,103 and an asking price of $1,745,000. The development’s web site is here and there’s an open house by appointment on Sunday.
24 Remsen Street, #3 [Brennan RE/NYT]
No drug deals here.
I’m just sayin’…they all don’t stick around nor are they all sketchy.
Please…as my neighbor who I met shortly upon moving to Park Slope introduced herself to me…”how does anyone live in NYC without being stoned”
We were fast friends.
I have a friend who’s a doorman and a stand-up comedian.
One of his lines is (not verbatim, of course):
Yeah, I’m a doorman, I work the front door. I have a gay friend who’s also a door man. He works the back door.
WOW…a drug deal going down on brownstoner!!! I can see it now next year on Law & Order, ripped from the headlines. In fact I think I’m going to write the story for them in this book I started a few years ago and couldn’t get my act together on it.
one more point on the walk-up issue is that if you are planning to have babies in a walk up, make sure that there’s stroller parking in the lobby…
Lived in a doorman building from age 22-26 and I was embarrassed about how un-promiscuous I was…
Then lived without one for a few years (in the Villlage) and was no big deal, except for when my apartment got broken into and I had to put bars on my windows and extra locks on the door. Also one of my neighbors tried to kill herself by throwing herself down a flight a stairs and slashing herself with bottles found in the recycling bin. A doorman would have been nice that night…
Most buildings in Brooklyn are relatively leanly staffed (like 5-6 doormen and a super) as opposed to giant Manhattan high rises where there are like 20 people on the tip list each year!
I never knew my Chinese, Thai and Mexican deliveries were a “substance delivery” Just good food of course.
Rob,
If you need help on that front, I can let you know about someone who absolutely is not creepy nor dangerous.
And they don’t stick around.
Not that I’d know anything about it either….
😉
i’d imagine they’d be good if you have a weed or other substance delivery person, as it could be creepy and dangerous to actually let them in your apartment (and they always have to come in and stay for bit). not that i’d know about that kind of thing.
*rob*
I’m pretty sure doormen have a union and you basically need to know someone to get in. Least, that’s what I’ve read.
I have no interest in a stranger knowing the details of my life, nor in paying higher maintenance fees (and extra tips) for someone whom I’m not really going to use for anything, so yeh … I’m probably better off sticking with a no-doorman building.