Co-op of the Day: 60 Remsen Street
This alcove studio at 60 Remsen Street has had a nice tune-up since the owner bought it for $315,000 last October (the kitchen, in particular, looks beautiful) but the fact that it’s on the first floor and, after all, only a studio make the price jump in the intervening eight months to $465,000 a little…
This alcove studio at 60 Remsen Street has had a nice tune-up since the owner bought it for $315,000 last October (the kitchen, in particular, looks beautiful) but the fact that it’s on the first floor and, after all, only a studio make the price jump in the intervening eight months to $465,000 a little hard to swallow. While no square footage total is provided, as far as we can tell from the floorplan, this puts the asking price at close to $1,000 a foot. Is this realistic?
60 Remsen Street, Apt. 1C [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I didn’t make it to the open houses this weekend but i hear that the one for 390K had an offer as soon as the open house started (and it should since it was grossly underpriced for a jr one bdrm). not sure what happened with the unit mentioned in this thread. I also hear there were a total of 4 open houses in this building, for all different reasons (deaths, growing families, etc)
@12:51: Replace “singleton” with “simpleton” and you are correct.
This place seems overpriced at first glance, but I suspect there’s a singleton out there who’s been waiting for something just like this–high end kitchen/bath, doorman, elevator in a pleasant neighborhood that’s equidistant to Midtown Manhattan and Park Slope.
The maintenance does seem high; the 34% deductible is pretty low.
But as usual, the market will decide.
1:42, good post and I agree the commercial areas in BH are a major letdown for the most part…likely do to the high rents that you alluded to. Good point wrt Park Slope’s possible future, although I hope that doesn’t happen as I really appreciate the diversity of shops in PS (even though I live in BH).
I was so excited to visit Brooklyn Heights when I moved to NYC a few years ago. I got there and it was such a letdown. Gorgeous houses, of course of course. But the commercial areas were so bad. I was really shocked at that. There’s one diner that’s been there a long time that had the best pea soup I ever had in my life, though. I love a good diner, every neighborhood needs one (ours doesn’t have one; grrrr waahhh).
Even if Brooklyn Heights doesn’t have the hipster quotient they sure have residents with money. Who should be spending it locally and not just in Manhattan.
I bet the issue is really about the commercial space not being anywhere near affordable to all the hip new restauranteurs and boutiques, most of whom aren’t going to lay out a ton of money on a lease when they need to spend a lot of money on a beautiful well-done buildout. The bar is set really high these days for chic interiors in restaurants and shops. So if they can’t afford the storefront spaces somewhere then they ain’t going there. Thus the fears over where Park Slope is headed with their greedy landlords and rising rents.
this thread is a clusterfuck.
$465k for a studio would make sense in manhattan.
brooklyn heights is not quite there yet, sorry.
considering one bedrooms in blue chip brooklyn are readily available for this price or less, it makes it even more absurd.
6:20PM, here here!! I agree with everything you said and recognize Montague for what it is and what it unfortunately is not. But dammit, it would be nice to have the main east/west street that is lined with many nice buildings and runs straight through to the Promenade not turn into Court Street north of Atlantic. 🙂
Oooh and good Ethiopian/Malawi fare would be more than welcome too!
oops, sorry everybody; 2:34 already pointed out that the other apartment IS a studio. my apologies.
2:00, that “one bedroom” is a studio with a wall put up in the alcove area. Compare the floorplans and you will see they are the same. The one bedrooms in this building have a different layout.
The apartments in this very well-run building are large, with amazing light (huge windows) and good layouts. And this is a beautiful block, very close to the promenade. And no I am not a broker, just a local coop owner who has looked at numerous apartments in 60 Remsen over the years.