Co-op of the Day: 195 Prospect Park West
We’ll say this about the floorplan at 195 Prospect Park West: It ain’t cookie-cutter! The 1,400-square-foot three-bedroom may be short on right angles but it’s got park views to spare. The baseboard heating is a bit of a bummer; the kitchen has an Eighties vibe but looks decently done. Price? $950,000 with a reasonable monthly…
We’ll say this about the floorplan at 195 Prospect Park West: It ain’t cookie-cutter! The 1,400-square-foot three-bedroom may be short on right angles but it’s got park views to spare. The baseboard heating is a bit of a bummer; the kitchen has an Eighties vibe but looks decently done. Price? $950,000 with a reasonable monthly maintenance of $898. What do you think?
195 Prospect Park West [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I lived on 15th street right off the square and it really is a cavern of sound. We kind of liked it. We called it “The Song of 15th Street”. It sounded something like this “I told you not to call me on my cell phone – I be at school all day – I know it’s 2 in the morning that why I told you not to call. Dumb B*%ch” or once “I am Hispanic MF, We are the best, you are sh*&t. We are the Hispanic Peoples” all with the clank clank of bums digging through the recycling bins and the whirl of skateboards in the background. I heard all of this from my bedroom on the 4th floor. We would wake up laughing sometimes saying sleepily did you hear that? Anyway, I really loved this street from the guys at Royal Deli to the Connecticut Muffin and 12th Street Bar and Grill, Jaya Yoga and Pumpkin Market. I do not miss the F train, but this is why I moved from Alabama (where in ’95 I paid $295 for 1 bedroom beautiful apt) to Brooklyn and where I plan to stay.
I really like this place, even after reading all of the above comments.
I would consider giving up my 2 family, 2800 sq ft. ESH home with an award winning garden, garage, and private parking spot on a private street, one block away from the beach for this place.
I love Rockaway but I have a kid now so being closer to the city and park are a major plus.
Heck I can even deal with that freaking kitchen and baseboard heating.
That is a really low maintenance, probably explains why the price feels a little high. But look at it this way: The $600 you save on maintenance would let you take out another 125k in financing. I’d rather tie up my money in a low interest rate mortgage than a sure-to-rise monthly payment.
I don’t think this is particularly overpriced. But that kitchen is going to turn a lot of people off. 899k would get this done in a heartbeat.
How is steam heat “dehydrating”? The term implies taking water vapor out of the air, and there should be no difference betw steam and hydronic. If anything, the small inevitable leakage of steam from the vent before it closes should slightly hydrate the room. Anyone know for real?
Heather, time to run, not walk from PS.
heather youre being sarcastic, or convincing yourself of your decision.
A lot of us actually like living near stores and conveniences. One of the more annoying facts about Park Slope life in my mind are the long blocks you have to slog up to get milk and beer in the snow… not to mention, their quiet utopias are a perfect mugger’s paradise.
Speaking as someone who lives on seventh avenue, I can assure that park slope’s side streets are, by and large, MUCH quieter than its avenues.
A. Garbage trucks are once every few days, not constant.
B. this place is not just on PPW–it’s on the traffic circle!
Not many cars or people in Park Slope?
Ha!
Park Slope, Vermont maybe.
Ever been on a sidestreet when the garbage truck is collecting garbage and thirty impatient drivers are inching their way forward? Or when a delivery truck parks and stops the flow for about fifteen minutes? There are advantages to wider streets. Prospect Park West is not exactly an undesirable street.