Co-op of the Day: 279 Sterling Place, #1B
We’ve already professed our love for this1887 Renaissance Revival building at 279 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights. Now one of the lower duplexes is on the market. The main living area on the first floor of the former public school is pretty stunning: double-height ceilings, massive windows, lotsa light. The sleeping quarters downstairs are less…
We’ve already professed our love for this1887 Renaissance Revival building at 279 Sterling Place in Prospect Heights. Now one of the lower duplexes is on the market. The main living area on the first floor of the former public school is pretty stunning: double-height ceilings, massive windows, lotsa light. The sleeping quarters downstairs are less spectacular but feel less subterranean than one might imagine. In all, the space is 2,222 square feet and is asking $1,299,000, or a little less than $600 per foot. Realistic?
279 Sterling Place [Brenton Realty] GMAP P*Shark
Architecture 101: Public School That Went Private [Brownstoner]
The property is pretty great. I like the vast size. The realtors had made no mention to me that there were other realtors selling it before. When I attended the open house they kind of did the batman and robin thing. Does anyone think it will sell fast? I would love to see in the 900’s. There is so much space it makes you want to have children, I told the real estate people we a couple with no kids, she this place gives you a reason to have some.
Does anyone know about the board?
Anyone see the new listing at 174 Pacific Street for similar co-op in a renovated school house? I think it’s smaller, but listed at $1.35 mill. Is it worth the look?
Saw this apartment with the broker sometime in mid-winter, when it was still asking 1.5, and couldn’t agree more that it’s very over-priced, considering the layout, the bedroom windows opening directly onto the parking lot, and the amount of work needed on bathrooms and kitchen. The living room and building exterior are lovely, but the limitations of the apartment are such that the price looks like incredible overreaching. As for the suggestion by 4/1 11:12, the bedrooms downstairs are the ONLY bedrooms, aside from one small closet-less bedroom off the kitchen upstairs, so using them for hobby/office space might crimp one’s living style a bit. Two other issues I haven’t see mentioned are the loft over the living room which isn’t tall enough to stand in–and is thus just open/visible storage space, unless you want your small children playing on a loft 25 feet up a spiral staircase–and the “playroom” downstairs, which is an interior room and has no windows. All in all, a very quirky spot that is trying to capitalize on the unique building.
Well, I just came from the open house, and after being lied to by the realtors (who told me it was just back on the market after a long hiatus (a year ago with a higher asking price), I have to say I know why they lied. I’ve been in love with this building- from the outside- forever. But, the depressing common hallways with scissor cut industrial carpeting are just the beginning. While the main living room is huge, the views just plain stink- cars in the parking lot. The kitchen is way below par (though it’s spacious) and all of the bedrooms have trajic flaws- either no closet space, small windows, little room, etc. The layout doesn’t make much sense, with portable closets nailed in every available nook and cranny. Oh, and by built-ins, they mean cheap brackets and shelves. This is a total gutter in my opinion- and at this asking price, who’d have money left over for that!
1:34 – most of them are that bad (or worse), if the owners you know are honest and not smiling over their pain in their effort to maintain their ability to sell one day…
is that a $1,500 maintenance ?!?
Oh, lord, I love this building.
I’m told by a reliable source that the politics of the co-op board are Park Slope Food Coop level nightmarish to deal with. Still, when I win the lottery, I’m moving in.
Methinks those “bedrooms” below ground would be more useful for one with a business or hobby needing that space, or as office space – where you might not mind as much. But the price would have to reflect that reality.
My husband and I went to the open house this past weekend. We have also been intrigued by this building but this apartment was certainly not worth the asking price whatever it might be. There is no “master bedroom”. The current owners use room as their bedroom on the ground floor. It is tiny and a small bathroom is down the hall. The other bedrooms are below ground with windows high up, with bars that overlook the parking lot…how depressing. I do not want my children to grow up with bars on their windows looking out at cars.
Yes, space is a premium but this apartment is tired looking and needs a complete renovation of the kitchen and bathrooms and for $1.3 it seems a bit much, no matter what the real estate market is like.