Condos of the Day: 707 Carroll Street
This four-unit eight-unit condo conversion at 707 Carroll Street in Park Slope hit the market back in February and underwent a price reduction in April. Four of the eight units are currently available at prices ranging from $595,000 to $695,000. The developer certainly gets points for keeping the original woodwork in place; he gives them…
This four-unit eight-unit condo conversion at 707 Carroll Street in Park Slope hit the market back in February and underwent a price reduction in April. Four of the eight units are currently available at prices ranging from $595,000 to $695,000. The developer certainly gets points for keeping the original woodwork in place; he gives them right back, though, for designing cheesy kitchens. Anyone looked at these?
707 Carroll Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
there is a good reason why the prices are low –> bad renovation & rent stablized tenants!!!
MFN: Quite right. They wouldn’t be fun for everyone.
I would never recommend a walk-up for anyone with children regardless of the layout.
Do they even know their market here? Nobody with children would buy a place where you have to tiptoe through bedrooms to get to the other bedrooms during nap times and bedtime. Plus no privacy once kids are big enough to open doors. Bit clueless of the developer to do that in family oriented neighborhood.
Railroad layouts in general aren’t all that bad. We had a more typically laid out railroad Park Slope coop apt with LR/DR/kitchen in front and bedrooms in back with bathroom and long hallway between. The thing that’s really nice about that layout is somebody can be watching TV or have guests over and the kids (or anybody who is sleeping) are well separated from the LR. If you have bedrooms directly off your LR space nobody is going to be sleeping all that easily while there are people and TV in the LR. I think the long hallway separating BR’s from LR in a railroad layout is the next best thing to a house or duplex where the BR’s are on another floor.
Montrose:
They didn;t repair the work (I agree, horrible) because they ran out of cash of course. Hence the craptacular kitchens.
Anything finished in the last 12 months by a developer will have corners cut as we know. Prices cut, not so much. Corners, definitely.
“I think the layouts are kind of fun”
If you mean Fun by having to walk through both your childrens’ bedrooms at night to do anything, then yeah, it’s a blast.
I know I think it’s totally awesome when I wake up my 18 month old to!
RR apartments suck, plain and simple.
Those floor plans are unmitigated disasters. Would have been better to do full floors.
I’m glad someone decided to keep the period detail – kudos for that. It’s the only thing keeping the apartments from being cookie cutter ordinary. I must pick a nit in saying it wouldn’t cost that much, or be that hard, to find someone to repair the fretwork. Those ball and stick pieces do not require the skills of a Grinling Gibbons to repair, and for the amount they are charging for these apartments, it’s the least they could do.
The kitchen cabinets seem nice. I think it’s the counters, lack of space and lack of appliances that give it a cheap look.
nice location. would that be a load-bearing wall in the middle of the first floor? how about combining 1L and 1R into one? it would totally work. the kitchens and living rooms are back to back, so you just strip out that ikea stuff and do it right, and enjoy separate basement playrooms for your spoiled park slope kids who hate each other.