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]
There are tons of people in the city in their 20’s and 30’s making 30K, 40K a year who share a “luxury” apartment in Manhattan and can’t afford the tipping.
Doorman make around 50K, 60K a year…and UP! So yes, I find it a little odd to tip people who 1. You oftentimes never see all year long until tip day, as someone mentioned and 2. make double what you make.
See what you started sam!!!!
Mr. B, should dig up and do a thread about tipping ettiquette for the holiday’s…as a guide for those living in buildings.
DIBS – not true. Most buildings in Manhattan, including the one I lived in had low and moderate tenant apartments – even the Trump buildings have them. It’s incentives the builders get from the city for offering these types of apartment. There is low income in Sutton Place!
So not everyone can afford all of those tips – i for one could not!
Just because I don’t want my doorman knowing everything about me doesn’t mean I’m involved in anything elicit. My wife and I don’t do anything illegal or otherwise shady — but we’re both very quiet, private people.
Also, I’m not too cheap to tip people around the holidays, if I have the money available to do so, but it’s not like living in this city and accumulating spare cash is an easy proposition for most of us.
my tipping past:
4 years lived in a place where i tipped the super a HUUUUUGE bottle of Alexi. (he loved it.).
then lived with my boyfriend in a co-op in chelsea and honestly i dont remember tipping those holidays.?
then we lived in an apartment in morningside heights and i thought 100 bux would be good, cuz this super was always fixing stuff in our apt. but my boyfriend was like hells no just give him 50. i was fine with that.
wasnt around the holidays in harlem proper. i doubt any of them scoundrals gave tips tho.
i have no idea what my current roommate will ask me to hand in as a tip. how much do supers in medium sized apartments get from someone anyway?
*roB*
11217
If you have a problem giving your building staff holiday tips, I think you should not live in a full-service building. Believe me these guys don’t like to be stiffed at Christmas.
Of course I treat my staff like family. They’re all great. The super, the doormen. I like giving them a little something extra, they really help me out a lot.
That’s why I like doormen and you don’t.
cheers!
aw 11217, i dont think sam meant it in an insensitive way..
it’s funny cuz i have to hand out the holiday tips to all the porters, security guys, supers in my building at work and it’s like dammmmmn… they all crawl out of the woodwork around christmas. never saw half those guys all year long hahahah.
*rob*
You don’t tip your doorman 11217 and you’re likely to find you and your delivery man “turned in” LOL
Most people who can afford to live in a high rise condo can afford tips; especially in a normal economy. When they don’t give them they ARE “just too cheap.”