Co-op of the Day: Turner Towers Whopper
Our Turner Towers love-fest last week prompted one reader to bring our attention to another, larger listing in the grand old co-op. This seventh-floor three-bedroom weighs in at a whopping 1,800 square feet and has a large dining and three bedrooms to boot. Downsides? The kitchen and bath “need work.” The price tag for this…
Our Turner Towers love-fest last week prompted one reader to bring our attention to another, larger listing in the grand old co-op. This seventh-floor three-bedroom weighs in at a whopping 1,800 square feet and has a large dining and three bedrooms to boot. Downsides? The kitchen and bath “need work.” The price tag for this pre-warry goodness? $1,100,000. Any recent comps in the building for this? We couldn’t find anything relevant on Property Shark.
135 Eastern Parkway 3BR [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
It would take a lot of work, but this could be turned into a 3BR. there is a lot of wasted square footage between the huge foyer, “gallery”, and the unusable Maid’s room. you’d sacrifice some closet space but you gotta rip out a bunch of those walls.
Yes, people are lazy and dont like to walk. But having to trek 10 minutes to the grocery store just to pick up a few items, or to the dry cleaners, really wears on you – especially in the winter. Location truly matters. Unless you work at the museum, the location aint worth the money.
The Corcoran Lincoln place apartment is awesome, but only better due to location.
I’m not inherently lazy – I walk all over the place in Brooklyn. But when the weather dips into the twenties or below, it makes me happy that basic amenities are less than a street-block away from where I live. Walking two avenue blocks in arctic winds with a bunch of grocery bags sucks.
I am admittedly not an Eastern Parkway fan. I don’t like gigantic condo/co-op buildings, and I don’t like relying on the 2/3 for transportation.
Brownstoner:
Now here’s an example of my old neighborhood, Crown Heights, at its best.
(Yes, before the moniker “Prospect Heights” — a real-estate marketing ploy — Eastern Parkway all the way to Grand Army Plaza was Crown Heights, at least during the 1950s, when I lived in the neighborhood as a boy.)
Turner Towers then, as it does know, loomed large in the area, and in people’s consciousness. One example of its prominence: It had its own number in the telephone book. (Once when looking up a pal I came across it. Few other Brooklyn apartment houses listed, or even had, their own numbers, which to a little kid indicated the place’s worthiness.)
Sadly the parkway back then, if elegant, was in decline and my mother, concerned about her kids’ safety on the dark thoroughfare with building entrances set far back from the street, refused to move the family there. Besides, “No one lives on the parkway any more,” one of our parents’ friends said while driving us by in his big, black Lincoln on our way to the museum.
To this day my brother, now in his fifties, rues our parents’ decision. “Think of it,” he says, “The park, museum, and Botanical Gardens all there. Were they crazy?”
And this from a man with his own sprawling “Classic Six” on the East Side!
I once heard from family acquaintances in the building that there was a special pent house built up top during the 1939 World’s Fair as a “model” apartment for the future. Never saw it. Was never able to confirm it.
But I’d like to think it’s true. To this day the thought of it gives me a smile when I pass the building on the way to the museum.
What must an apartment for the future have looked like in 1939? And what better place to experiment than at the top of Turner Towers, with its 360-degree views of all of New York?
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
I think this is a better apartment also for the same price…
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1372456&ohDat=
“I would think that people would consider walking more than two blocks; I forgot to consider that many people are lazy.”
I hear you to a point fjorder, but there is something to be said for immediate convenience and I don’t think it makes one lazy to hope for that at this price range.
This is a classic 6, not 7 (I HATE brokers that lie). And having been in many on the UWS, I can say that it is a great layout for what it is – a 2br, with maids room, and sep DR. Its not loft living, but an old school layout (which I like). Still, with some updating, would be gorgeous. But, I agree, not sure that someone wants to pay over a million to live in an apt on East. Pkwy that needs updating. I dont. It is a pain in the ass to walk to vanderbilt or to 7th avenue to shop, particularly with many grocery bags and possibly a kid in tow. And its a bit of a walk to the 2/3 on a cold day like today. And the schools dont compare to the slope (figure a family would be buying this).
For the same price and square footage, I’d rather take this place.
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1434744&ohDat=
Looks like it needs some updating and one of the bedrooms is tiny (it has 4 though), but for a price comparison, this looks better to me. I guess the no doorman might be a deal breaker for some though…
fjorder – I live in North Slope. There’s nothing on that stretch of eastern parkway that’s not far enough away to be a pain in the ass, during the winter (and on very hot summer days, for that matter). It’s not impossible to get to various commercial stretches, no, but I wouldn’t call them nearby. Not by New York standards anyway.