Co-op of the Day: 41 Eastern Parkway
Here’s a listing that puts Tuesday’s Co-op of the Day in some perspective. The Windsor Terrace apartment we wrote about yesterday was in crappy shape, had only 1,900 square feet and was asking $1.3 million. Today’s listing is on the other side of the park (a stone’s throw from OPP), in lovely shape and clocks…
Here’s a listing that puts Tuesday’s Co-op of the Day in some perspective. The Windsor Terrace apartment we wrote about yesterday was in crappy shape, had only 1,900 square feet and was asking $1.3 million. Today’s listing is on the other side of the park (a stone’s throw from OPP), in lovely shape and clocks in at 2,100 square feet. And the price? A far more reasonable $1,150,000. We could see this new listing moving pretty quickly. Do you agree?
Property Listing #5905 [Harborview] GMAP
41 Eastern Parkway [NY Times]
Pound for pound windsor terrace is the best nabe in brooklyn..may not be as shiny as other nabes, but the BEST place to live and raise a family.
This apt is not 2100 sf, it is 1800 sf. I know as I used to live in this building. This apt has been on the market for over 6 months. Other units in this building have sold for more, but they were in mint/excellent condition with high-end kitchens. This apt doesn’t meet those criteria.
My kitchen, which I designed to my own taste and needs, has no upper cabinets but open shelving instead. I cook a lot for a family of four, and entertain as well. I much prefer open shelving to upper cabinets. Everything is very easily accessible and it doesn’t get dusty because I don’t have a ton of stuff and what I have I use all the time. Things I use infrequently get stored in the lower cabinets or pantry. I also have the pleasure of insisting on having attractive stuff since it will be in plain sight.
I also happen to prefer a smaller kitchen to a large one, because in my experience it’s more efficient. Less junk and gadgets, easier to find things, less distance to cover on the way to the fridge.
I think this apartment looks quite nice. I used to live in Prospect Heights and remember Copley Plaza as being beautiful, with a gorgeous marble lobby.
Anon 11/7 9:27, get a grip, take a pill, and open a design magazine. Or check out Apartment Therapy, or any other design site. No upper cabinets is a trend in top-end homes all over, not cheap renos. As for where to put things, you have a pantry cabinet, idiot. Those are the same stupid comments people made about not having bathroom vanities. Now every tasteful bathroom has free-standing sinks with no lower cabinets. It amazes me that anyone so clueless actually reads this site.
It’s amazing how some developers cheap out on things like upper cabinets, then other developers catch on to it, then it becomes a trend, and all of a sudden some idiot says “there is nothing uglier than a kitchen crammed with upper and lower cabinets.” There is also very little that’s less functional than a kitchen WITHOUT upper and lower cabinets. Where the f$ck are you supposed to put the dishes, glassware, bowls, etc., etc., etc. that every well equiped kitchen has to have. In your cheap “open shelves.” That’s a good place IF you want to dust every plate and glass you own every day. I agree that perhaps some counterspace without cabinets on top is a nice luxury, but not at the expense of actual storage space. You must eat at McDonalds a lot, because you clearly spend very little time in a real kitchen.
I am the one who made the original post about the kitchen. I take your point about the new trend in kitchens (no upper cabinets) and I now recall seeing such a kitchen in another Copley Plaza apartment – which I actually kind of liked it. If that was the intention of the people who “renovated” this apartment – then they clearly had a execution problem. You really have to see the place to appreciate how badly it was done. BTW, notice that the picture only shows one view of the kitchen. Also the butler’s pantry that is referenced in the listing is in addition to the “two-roomed” kitchen.
5:57, my comment may strike you as strange, but “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kitchen without upper and lower cabinets” has got to be stranger still. There’s a picture of one above. No upper cabinets is perhaps the biggest trend in kitchens of the moment–and for the past few years. Upper cabinets are bulky and create small, claustrophobic spaces. Open shelves or nothing at all above the counter is much more attractive. But of course, that is a matter of personal style. But you might want to take a look at a home magazine.
“They removed the French Doors….”
A pox upon all the door removing bozos out there.
In my place, I am missing a door to my living room den and to my closet (there are hinges still there), so both spaces are open to the entry hallway. And the front and back doors are some nasty hollow core things, not the solid wood like the bedroom and bathroom doors.
So now I have to replace all the missing and crap doors. Taking out doors does not add value!
ZeeBee, I live on the block behind this place (Lincoln), and while I readily admit that it’s far from the prettiest block in Prospect Heights and that there is a long way to go in the amenities department, I can say that I have seen zero drug dealing going on, and I walk back to my place from the 2/3 at all sorts of hours. I feel pretty safe there, but that’s a personal decision, I guess. However, you are right about it being noisy… does this apartment face north?
And finally, I’m all for not having people pay Copley Plaza prices, as I love the nabe and hope to buy before it gets too pricey.