Co-op of the Day: 1 Plaza Street
This may be the one time we can remember a listing saying that a bathroom needs to be renovated when, in our opinion, it looks perfect! (We will readily concede that the kitchen could in fact benefit from a makeover.) Other than that, this two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment at 1 Plaza Street in Park Slope looks…
This may be the one time we can remember a listing saying that a bathroom needs to be renovated when, in our opinion, it looks perfect! (We will readily concede that the kitchen could in fact benefit from a makeover.) Other than that, this two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment at 1 Plaza Street in Park Slope looks like a decent pre-war blank slate, albeit one with a fairly high monthly maintenance of $1,265. The building itself and the location are obviously sweet, though, and the apartment is on a high enough floor that views clear the surrounding townhouses. All this for $769,000. Good deal?
1 Plaza Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
This is the west side of Flatbush and, yeah, it can get tiring eating at all of those favorably-reviewed restauruants on 5th and 7th Aves, or even just down Flatbush (like Franny’s and Flatbush Farm). So please save your $800K to buy in sompleace with better restauruant choices — and let us all know where (in NYC) you can get a 2Br apartment in a pre-war full service building with a gorgeous kitchen for $800K.
If I dropped 800k on a place in the Slope I would hope it had a fantastic kitchen, as I will not be eating any of the mediocre ‘cuisine’ 5th and 7th avenues have to offer on a nightly basis.
is this east or west of flatbush?
Snark Slope (11.25):
Here’s what you do. Put a door back on the kitchen (which was there in the first place, as its photo shows) and go out to dinner in Park Slope 1,000 times for the 50K you’d spend on a reno.
Problem solved!
I’m definitely a fan of pre-war apartments. As NOP pointed out: “The heavy iron door. The crenelated ceiling. The bronze torcheres.”
Beautiful indeed. But none of those lovely touches are actually inside the apartment.
I may not live in the kitchen or bathroom, but I certainly spend more time there than I do in the lobby. And for nearly $800k I would hope for something that looked better than the kitchen and bathroom in the rent-stabilized apartment I lived in many years ago.
That said, this will probably go for pretty close to ask. Then the buyer can drop another $50k or so to update the kitchen and bath, and have a lovely home.
Sometimes the comments here are negative. sometimes they are not. most of us are talking real estate and we have our strong opinions about it. Frankly the most insulting and snarky post on this thread is 11217’s who seems to want to insult the rest of us by calling us idiots and loons. Now that’s negative! Please stop it.
I think I may agree with you, 11217.
For a blog called Brownstoner, a number of posters here don’t seem to appreciate the archaic.
One of the small pleasures of living in my pre-war building has been waiting for the elevator in the lobby and admiring the way its builders made sure every piece of marble fits –right down to the pattern of veins.
I can’t help but compare that to conditions where friends live, a brand-new condominium by a “starchitect” with a per-square foot price a multiple of my own. It’s two years old and the plaster boards’ seams are already starting to show!
How to handle the flaws of an old apartments walls? Do what my friends in a small palazzo in Rome do: hang a painting or a print!
The Italians have been doing it for centuries. And they know how to live!
The reason I bring that up is two-fold. #1, I’ve been thinking it and #2, I mentioned at dinner last night to a group of friends and reference “reading something on Brownstoner” and two people laughed and said…”How can you read that…everyone on there is so negative. I laughed and agreed.” They also commented how the people who comment on blogs like this are stereotyped and becomes part of the reason why it’s not “cool” to live in Brownstone Brooklyn.
I don’t give a rats ass about being cool, but I did think it was interesting to hear other people say that they won’t read this website anymore because of the horrible impressions that they get about the people who must live in these neighborhoods from looking over the comments.
I had to fess up that I comment on occasion as well, so I’m going to be more mindful of it also.
Do some of you realize that you come across as being some of the most negative, cynical loons around?
Seriously.
If you have so much negativity bottled up that you need to trash talk every single thing that you come across on this blog, either you do a great job directing it here or you need to take a step back and try to find out what life is all about.