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
Inigo,
have you been to park slope? Or cobble hill? Or many other brownstone areas? Ever walked the side streets? Quiet. Trees. No buses. Few pedestrians. Few cars. No stores or restaurans. There are lots of buses, cars, people, and restaurants on fith or seventh ave, but not on the side streets. Which is why most people prefer to live on the side streets and not on the avenues. It’s pretty basic.
Shill,
There are restaurants and buses in Brooklyn too. It is part of the scene. Being too squeamish about seeing buses outside your windows is kind of anti-urban.
If you really want tree-lined streets with no traffic what the heck are you doing in an over-crowded city like Brooklyn? You can’t escape city life if you live in the city no matter where you are. Especailly in Brownstone Brooklyn, this is central casting city life.
Oops. The Pavilion’s actually in a C1 district, which still doesn’t allow theaters.
Given the choice, I think most people would just as soon do without bus noise, drunken rowdies, and restaurant odors, so it’s reasonable to note this and think it should be reflected in the apartment’s price.
“If you do not wish to live near buses and restaurants I don’t think you are really a city person.”
I can’t thank of a response to that that wouldn’t violate the new ban on insulting comments. So I’ll just say that many people came to brownstone booklyn in order to live on a quiet, tree-lined block of brownstones where we could walk to restaurants and buses but would not have to see or hear them from our homes. People who like living above buses and traffic and crowds live in Manhattan, not Park Slope.
I think this is a pretty great, civilized layout, although it’s pretty ugly in the state it’s in.
If you do not wish to live near buses and restaurants I don’t think you are really a city person.
Nice apartment and great for proximity to the park and subway. But having buses from three different lines circling under your windows, plus all the other traffic noise, plus Pavilion patrons sucking up all the curbside parking, are all drawbacks. By the way, how on earth was the Pavilion permitted to open in an R district? It had been waaaay more than two years since the Sanders closed, so reactiviation of a grandfathered legal non-conforming use shouldn’t have applied.
Some buildings have steam, some have hot water, my understanding is that there are modern baseboard units that can work off either one. I would replace these with smaller units on the market now. To my eye, they are way better than radiators.
In terms of the maintenance, condo people may not know that in a co-op, the maintenance includes real estate taxes.
Some of the companies that make custom wood radiator covers also make attractive wood covers for baseboard heaters. That’s probably what I would opt for in this instance.