Co-op of the Day: 360 Clinton Avenue
This massive prewar apartment at 360 Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market and looks pretty interesting. With its current price tag of $850,000, the 1,972-square-foot apartment is priced at about $430 per foot; given that there’s not a doorman, the monthly maintenance of $1,673 doesn’t seem like a bargain (but is probably…
This massive prewar apartment at 360 Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market and looks pretty interesting. With its current price tag of $850,000, the 1,972-square-foot apartment is priced at about $430 per foot; given that there’s not a doorman, the monthly maintenance of $1,673 doesn’t seem like a bargain (but is probably explainable by the fact that, from all appearances, this big spread is likely the result of combining two apartments). Waddya think?
360 Clinton Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Great building and even a better neighborhood
I grew up with a galley kitchen. You know where we spent time? In the dining room. Or the living room. I’d rather have seating for 10 than a 6-burner stove.
McKenzie, speaking as a person that used to own two adjoining properties that were split up to maximise the sale price, I’m sorry that you find my comment childish.
well Sam, you know New York is special.
Folks have to have a lot on the ball to move here and make it. It’s not anywhere USA. Most folks who have two million dollars to buy a century old home are not usually the type who just want to have kids and make pasta sauce in the kitchen. That was Brooklyn maybe forty years ago. But I also think that as much as we have changed, most men still do not really cook for the family except in emergencies, and we think about kitchens mostly in terms of showing off to our friends, that’s just the way we’re wired, I’m as guitly as the next man. My wife only wants to know one thing about our kitchen: will the caterers love it?
How Brooklyn of you. My comment wasnt posted at women, but at parents with kids. Dads and moms. Look, in most of this country the kitchen is the heart of the home. Only in NYC is that not true. And from someone who loves to cook, a big kitchen with tons of counter space is worth every penny. My point is if you have the space for a big kitchen, dont waste it.
PS – I also dont like people seeing the stains on my stove and the dishes in my sink, which is why I hate open kitchens.
– the “real” sam 😉
sam in the hood: oops!
better think twice before advising women that what they want is a big kitchen so they can spend a lot of time there with the kids. That is a little too retro. mcKenzie’s response made me laugh. Screw that!
Actually most over-the-top kitchens are designed for men.
The usually can’t cook and definitely will not clean up, but it’s a macho thing to have a stove that can burn as much fuel in two minutes as NASA’s latest booster rocket.
-the “other” sam
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned that Jerry Minsky is selling this place. I think it is gorgeous and, certainly, a deal for this kind of square footage. I’m sure it will sell quickly.
I didn’t move to new York City to spend my time in a big old kitchen. Screw that!
I like small kitchens, tucked away so nobody sees the stains on the stovetop. Big kitchens are usually just show-off stuff. I was raised by an urbane mother who thought that any day she did not step into the kitchen was a good day. I’m with her.
mckenzie – most of all the high-end apartments on 5th, park etc were built with small kitchens because the owners NEVER went in there to cook. In fact some of the building had (a few still have) dining rooms on the first floor for the residents. The staff cooked. I would imagine someone looking for that type of space in brooklyn has one or more younger children and would spend mucho time in the kitchen and dining area – as do almost every family with younger children. For that price and that space you would certainly want to have a bigger kitchen – the owner was stupid not to do the reno herself.