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]
“The tipping situation in NYC has spiraled out of control, in my personal opinion.”
I actually agree with this to an extent. I had no problems giving good tips to the doorman and building staff when I lived in Manhattan and consider myself a pretty good tipper in restaurants, cabs, etc. I appreciated the building staff and think I gave them a good bonus at holiday time (on top of paying the super and handymen for each time they would come to fix something in my apartment).
But I did find it surprising when moving to New York to see tip jars on the counters of bagel stores and other fast food joints. I’ll throw in my change but feel a bit ambivalent about it thinking the owners are considering this as part of the employees wage, thereby having an excuse to pay them less. Then there are the couple of times I’ve actually seen servers follow patrons out of a restaurant and berate them for not leaving enough and actually throwing the tip at the people saying things like “obviously you need this more than I do” (I really did observe that once!)
“I don’t have enough money to tip them as well as I would like, that is true.”
One last question, and then I’m done.
You are speaking as if these guys live off their holiday tips. They are VERY well paid employees and make more in their yearly salary than most NYC teachers.
I love to tip well in restaurants, cabs, etc, but tipping a person who makes a more than healthy salary sounds asinine to me.
Should I start tipping my financial planner too?
Dave,
your tenants should tip you, or at least make you holiday cookies!
I usually make a special trip to the bank to get brand new $100 bills for my tips. The guys appreciate the extra niceness of new money. I always give it to them in an envelope (with my name and apartment number) and a handshake and words of gratitude.
I think you give commensurate with what they have done for you. If you go to Hong Kong and leave all the details of re-painting your apartment to the super and doormen, then you owe them. If you have a lot of deliveries and laundy etc. you know, it’s common sense. I don’t have enough money to tip them as well as I would like, that is true. But I don’t cheap out either.
What should I tip for my part-time super who basically never shows up except to occasionally collect up the trash, which for some reason means storing full recycling bags in our front hallway for several days at a time (?!?)
Been here six months and the common areas have been vacuumed exactly once.
I’m thinking … “very little”
I don’t know how you would oftentimes not see the doorman all year long.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12072006/realestate/time_to_get_tipsy_realestate_jane_reilly_mount.htm
Of course this was back in the boomtimes (2006), but might help as a rough guide.
We tip waitresses, bartenders, etc. because they make $2.50 an hour.
NOT 60K !
The tipping situation in NYC has spiraled out of control, in my personal opinion.
My tenants should tip me!!!