Co-op of the Day: 210 Congress Street
The 114-unit co-op at 210 Congress Street in Cobble Hill is pretty unremarkable as far as prewar buildings go, but it’s perfectly nice and in a lovely location. The scale of the windows and ceilings are a little blah, but we’re liking the layout of this two-bedroom. The asking price of $750,000, however, is definitely…
The 114-unit co-op at 210 Congress Street in Cobble Hill is pretty unremarkable as far as prewar buildings go, but it’s perfectly nice and in a lovely location. The scale of the windows and ceilings are a little blah, but we’re liking the layout of this two-bedroom. The asking price of $750,000, however, is definitely on the high side for the building. After all, only one apartment in the building has every sold for more than this amount. Think this one has a shot?
210 Congress Street [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
There are a lot of cranky raisins living there.
we bid on a two bedroom in this building last august, which had admittedly much nicer amenities in the kitchen/bath – and it went for $40K over asking price, which, at the time, was also $750K. by the way, the couple that won the bid came from manhattan, were newlyweds, and paid in all cash. so i imagine that there are more than a few geriatrics who like this building and will pay far more than the seller wants.
Terry Naini is a fabulous and smart broker and from what I hear from people (sellers) I know who have worked with her she typically get asking price or over on her listings. And as someone else mentioned she is cool!
Thank you, owner of a coop apartment in Brooklyn Heights’ “Mansion House” at 8:24 with a major personal agenda. Nice to hear from you. Obviously you HAVE decided to cut down that beautiful old tree from your rabidly defensive tone. You do sound like you need your meds.
Yours is not some gorgeous building, sorry.
It won’t win any beauty contest for sure but I think its fine and practical. The location is great and bedrooms look decent size. I don’t see how people think this is so overpriced. Especially considering how much other 2 br/1 bath are going for in the neighborhood.
maybe it was a NORC – official term for “naturally occurring retirement community.” Eventually, they change to younger, that’s just how life goes.
Not loving the kitchen – don’t like refrigerator in doorway. But that’s true for a lot of awkward size/shape kitchen renovations – sometimes it’s the best choice that could be made.
It’ll sell – it’s a two bedroom. Don’t get it, but some people truly don’t care about things like first floor and garage fumes.
8:13 you are an architectural illiterate, so either take some courses or shut up. The Mansion House in Brooklyn Heights is one of the very loveliest pre-war apartment Buildings in the Boro. To say it looks like a nursing home belies either your extreme youth, your total ignorance, or most likely, both.
What an ignoramus. The only thing these two buildings share is that they are not brownstones.
I know people who have a true prewar with a large foyer outside the kitchen that’s used as a dining area with the table against the wall and it totally works great that way. Their ceilings are higher and have more details and all the nice prewar things. But just wanted to weigh in and say the foyer/DR layout is not a bad thing.
It does look like a nursing home. The exterior of this building looks like the coop that wanted to tear down its huge ancient tree last year, remember? And there was a protest over it that went public? I myself commented at the time the building would look institutional without the tree.
Like this one.
I wonder what they decided about the tree at that building. Brownstoner should do a follow-up on it.
6:01 is right. Brownstone Brooklyn is the Saudi Arabia of global lead reserves.