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
Right, Inigo. But it’s unlikely to be steam either. Most likely this is standard hydronic heateing, where 180deg water made up by the building’s boiler is passed thru copper tube/fin coil.
Other than radiant heat, which is unlikely to be found in an apt., imho hydronic is better than steam. It’s quieter and it’s not dehydrating the way steam is. It is visible tho, just like rads.
I doubt those are electric baseboard units. When people renovate in pre-war apartments like this they remove the old radiators and install modern fin-coil units that operate off the building’s steam.
What is unusual is that the partment has central air. There is nothing grosser than window a.c.’s.
This is a beauty.
Nokilissa – don’t elevator bldgs always have much higher maintenance? Walk-ups, in my experience, tend to have much lower maintenance costs, hence this seems high. Agree with the baseboard problem – yuck!
Maintenance is extremely reasonable. Isn’t this supposed to be a 1,400 sq. foot place? I haven’t seen maintenance for a place this size under a thousand bucks in some time. Though those may have all been elevator buildings.
That said, I too think this is a two bedroom place with a den off of the living room. For most tastes, the kitchen will most certainly need to be redone in order to move past the Wallstreet, Less Than Zero (or insert any other 80’s movie here) feel, and the location is busy and loud.
Seems to be about 90 to 100k overpriced (they should have set it at 860k imo to have generated immediate buzz and interest)
Yeah, it’s the wall arranging thing, the fact that you need to watch where you put electronics and musical instruments, not to mention furniture, they tend to accumlate dust and pet hair, are impossible to clean well and the fact that electric heat is kinda expensive and inefficient. I could go on and on. Seriously, can you retrofit and put in radiators?
It is true, Nokilissa, people always seem to accept baseboards… and will even demonize those through the wall heating/cooling units, which I have to say, also annoy me but are far preferable.
Maintenance is very reasonable. Must be low/no underlying mortgage.
I don’t understand people who think this is too high. The $1 psf figure seems out of date to me. That was standard before the 18.5% post-9/11 tax hike, before the double-digit water rate hike, before electricity rates shot up, before heating costs jumped… basically that’s a standard that’s ten years old.
Meanwhile, I have no idea what this kind place goes for in this market. 950 strikes me as high.
And I hate baseboard too.
Nice apartment but there are streets nearby, plus a big noisy park, and the airplanes, there may even be a subway somewhere nearby.
Goldie–
These electric baseboards, like most, are pretty ugly and obtrusive. Plus it effects how drapes hang and what you can put directly against a wall.
I hate it too, Heather, and am always surprised by the number of people here who support it or don’t get the dislike of it.
I mean, this is a blog supported and controlled by a guy who can’t stand granite or recessed lighting. So our understandable distaste for an unattractive, highly visible tin box that snakes around the whole room, leaving no place for baseboard detail or the lovliness of the contrast between a white/cream baseboard, a dark hardwood floor, and a crisply painted wall in a contrasting color can’t be understood? People! 😉
Oh, and cwbuecheler, with newer radiators, the control one has is much better than just on and off. I was stunned by the difference when we replaced them in my old apartment.