Co-op of the Day: 61 Pierrepont Street, #43
Three bedrooms in a prewar building in The Heights for $800,000? Sounds like a good deal—at least on the surface. Unfortunately, the surface is as far as this listing at 61 Pierrepont Street lets you go. There’s not a single interior photo of this sponsor unit. The lack of disclosure combined with the fact that…
Three bedrooms in a prewar building in The Heights for $800,000? Sounds like a good deal—at least on the surface. Unfortunately, the surface is as far as this listing at 61 Pierrepont Street lets you go. There’s not a single interior photo of this sponsor unit. The lack of disclosure combined with the fact that the unit just received a $65,000 price cut after three weeks on the market doesn’t inspire confidence in the state of the apartment. (Plus, sponsors aren’t known for the quality of the renovations in general.) Anyone seen it who can shed a little light?
61 Pierrepont Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I don’t get the commute argument.
Bk heights = 30 min commute to midtown on a PACKED train where you have to stand up.
Park Slope = 40 min commute to midtown on a PACKED train where always get a seat.
renovated, this place in this configuration would be 945kish. so I think the price is a little high
Know the building well and it has very old pipes, elec, etc and every renovation ends up costing a zillion bucks. also, the layout is nust and you look out on love lane which is cute now, but is going to be condos soon with height extension. this apartment doesn’t clear that line. if you want a nice 2bedroom, 1 bath.. you can make this work.
It’s not a matter of whether Brooklyn Heights is more or less interesting than neighborhood X. It’s about the value people put on commute vs. other amenities. The prices seem to indicate people value commute over other amenities (which assumes that the amenities are “better” elsewhere).
2:26, most people disagree with you. Maybe not with their mouths, but they do with their wallets. If they agreed, prices in the Heights would be lower relative to other Brooklyn neighborhoods. But they’re not.
My husband and I saw this last week. Even after a total gut job, the floorplan would still be very, very weird. (Though we were told that the Board would permit the installation of a 2nd bathroom in the first bedroom on left. The unit owners below also bought one of these gut reno jobs and installed a full bath in the same place, so there’s existing plumbing to work off of.)
But even with that, you’ve still got a weird floorplan. That first bedroom on the left has to become, at the very least, an office if you’re putting a 2nd bathroom there.
Also, the apartment doesn’t get much light (even though the ceilings were a decent height) and most of the windows look out onto Love Lane Garage.
We understood going in that this was a gut reno, but it was really disgusting. A rent stabilized tenant had been in there for 30 years. Portions of the hardwood floor had to be ripped up and replaced with plywood because it was “weak”. I commend whoever takes this on, because it’s going to be a LOT of work.
“Brooklyn Heights has the shortest Brooklyn commute into Manhattan”
But that’s ALL it has. I’d rather have a slightly longer ride for a much more interesting neighborhood.
A chamber pot is period appropriate.
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