Condos of the Day: 417 Park Place
The brownstone at 417 Park Place in Prospect Heights has been converted recently into condos; the three units hit the market earlier this month. Other than preserving the original shutters, it’s hard to see much to recommend this place. Then again, there could be some nice aspects to it, but the website and listing are…
The brownstone at 417 Park Place in Prospect Heights has been converted recently into condos; the three units hit the market earlier this month. Other than preserving the original shutters, it’s hard to see much to recommend this place. Then again, there could be some nice aspects to it, but the website and listing are both so poorly done that you’d never know it. Price are $599,000 for the ground-floor apartment, $899,000 for the middle duplex and $779,000 for the top duplex. We shall see.
417 Park Place [Century 21] GMAP P*Shark
The apartments look awful.
It looks like Brighton Beach threw up all over an old house–those horrible kitchens, bathrooms (tacky round sink cabinets) and over glossed floors….yuck.
cwbuecheler- exactly! This isn’t in PS, BH or prime Ft. Greene. This is off Washington Avenue. Closeset amenity is the Brooklyn North SVU. If you are going to live there for that price move another two blocks east and buy a house.
I’ve seen these, and the interiors and finishes are rather awful. I wouldn’t want to live in one of these, even if I could afford to!
LC Arnett – location, location, location.
Fjorder – Yep, you’re correct. I’ve walked that street several times and am aware of the subways in the area. They’re all further than I personally like to live from a subway stop. Not longer than I *have* lived, but longer than I like.
Ten minutes in 18 degrees is a long walk. 🙂
i’ve got to call out cwbuecheler.
“Subway access is a bit of a hike in the winter.” Actually, subway access from park/washington is plentiful.
1. 2,3 train at Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum about 5 minutes away.
2. B,Q is less than 8 minutes, even for a slow walker.
3. C at Fulton/Washington is max. 10 minutes.
You people are on crack. You can get a house for $899k in Brooklyn now. Why pay that for a duplex?
COTD picks aren’t necessarily great deals or even nice places–if an entire brownstone in a neighborhood that a lot of readers live in or are considering living in, then we want to have some historical record of it on the site.
I actually don’t find these too bad. The low taxes and common charges are nice. It looks like some of the interior touches were kept (like the wood around the windows), and the floorplans look fairly generous. Subway access is a bit of a hike in the winter, but for under $500/sf, that’s not so bad. The block’s nice, and tho Washington Ave’s not as nice as Vanderbilt, it at least has necessities on it like grocery stores.
I think everything in Brooklyn could use a 25% haircut, but these seem less horribly overpriced than most.