Co-op of the Day: 423 Atlantic Avenue, #2M
This 1,500-square-foot (we’re guessing) loft at 423 Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill just hit the market this week. It looks to us like the three-bedroom co-op has a great sense of space and nice wall of windows. Given that this stretch of Atlantic is not as gentrified as the blocks closer to Smith and Bond,…
This 1,500-square-foot (we’re guessing) loft at 423 Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill just hit the market this week. It looks to us like the three-bedroom co-op has a great sense of space and nice wall of windows. Given that this stretch of Atlantic is not as gentrified as the blocks closer to Smith and Bond, the asking price of $1,300,000 seems a little aggressive on a per-square-foot basis. The first open house is this Sunday from 12 to 2 p.m.
Co-op of the Day: 423 Atlantic Avenue, #2M [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
The exterior of the building looks shabby/slummy. A real turnoff for me.
I thought that was the Ex-Lax factory! What memories! I had a friend who bought a place in there late 70s, maybe early 80s, I think. First floor unit, with the most incredible private courtyard, which the apartment sort of wrapped around. She had no money, so she “walled off” spaces in what was really one great big room with plants and stuff (there was plenty of light from the courtyard). It was one of the most unexpectedly gorgeous living spaces I have ever seen. I can’t wait to hear her reaction when she finds out what the asking price is for places there now.
Regarding the comment that the block is not as nice as the ones nearer Smith, this was actually one of the first buildings in the neighborhood that attracted people to the area, back in the late eighties/early nineties.
brooklyn chicken, if its the exlax tower portion (to the far left), then i like more (from the outside). i guess your windows are better than my friend’s old place when he lived just a couple west, and had to have the a/c on all the time to drown out the street noise.
Not the nicest stretch of Atlantic, but I love the space.
That Trader Joe’s is great for ready-to-cook meals and other misc packaged items; for fresh produce, you’re better off elsewhere.
this building has always been slightly expensive. i looked in there years ago. it is a nice building, and it’s assumed to have value i guess.
To me I expect it is larger than the photos look…
Goldie, I’ve been in an Atlantic-facing apartment in that building, and you cannot hear Atlantic Avenue traffic at all. The people who built it put in terrific windows.
The building is called the Ex-Lax building, because it used to be the Ex-Lax factory. Now, don’t you all feel more relaxed?
Great space, but not as big as it looks in the photos. BHS must have borrowed the Corco-cam for this listing…the 3rd br is a bit awkward — looks like a study w/loft on the floorplan. I don’t care much for the kitchen, either. It looks small and cheap for a property at this price. If they were asking under $1 mil. I wouldn’t quibble with any of this.
Also, being on this part of Atlantic is a drawback to me. It’s a busy, loud, sooty street 16 hours a day.