Co-op of the Day: 670 President Street
This prewar one-bedroom at 670 President Street (off 5th Avenue) in Park Slope has a nice vibe to it, with high ceilings and a nice rounded-arch doorway. The building is architecturally attractive, too, and boasts a common garden. Still, the price tag of $439,000 feels better suited to a doorman building a little further up…
This prewar one-bedroom at 670 President Street (off 5th Avenue) in Park Slope has a nice vibe to it, with high ceilings and a nice rounded-arch doorway. The building is architecturally attractive, too, and boasts a common garden. Still, the price tag of $439,000 feels better suited to a doorman building a little further up the Slope, dontcha think?
670 President Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
I think my wife is a pretty cute park slope chick …
But I might be a bit biased.
that is an interesting comment lincoln. i dont know if i necessarily notice that in general tho. i will say that park slope women wear too much brown and beige tho.
*rob*
“Sidenote: is it me or are Park Slope men way too attractive in many cases for their wives.”
I’d say I agree with that. I see a ton of really hot dads, and don’t even notice the wives.
But that might be because I’m gay.
😉
I agree. I visited when my aunt died (only real connection to BK at the time) and it was seedy back in 2001). It is now my favoite area in the city. I can’t say I was excited when that Chase came to Lincoln and 5, but eh, better than a baby clothing store. I love the people I see there. Sidenote: is it me or are Park Slope men way too attractive in many cases for their wives.
5th (in Brooklyn) isn’t about shopping to me. It’s more about the strip where the neighborhood comes together to walk, to eat, to drink and to do their errands. It’s where I bump into friends and see kids playing at the playground on 1st. It’s about seeing my 90 year old neighbor sitting outside with her granddaughter drinking a cappuccino at AOC Bistro or seeing the firemen outside KeyFood. It’s one of the hearts of the neighborhood and that’s what makes it special.
The shopping is simply icing on the cake.
P.S. I lived on 5th Avenue in 2000 when I first moved here (from one 5th to the other) and it was not wonderful as saminthehood says. It was quite seedy.
Another reason why I find it so fun now. It’s come such a long way, even in the short amount of time I’ve lived here. Seeing such dramatic and dynamic changes is a large part of what NYC is about to me, and I find it fascinating.
I think people are dramatically over exaggerating the number of boutiques on fifth. The vast majority of the storefronts are standard things like banks, drug stores, supermarkets, groceries, restaurants, bars, etc.
That’s why it’s more interesting to me than fifth in Manhattan, which has a lovely park and … nothing else, above 59th st. anyway (and 5th below 59th isn’t all that popular, from an old-money standpoint).
99 percent of the shops along 5th avenue in ps are utterly useless crap that no one wants that will all be vacant in a year anyway. maybe they can all be turned back into horse stables and ostrich coops.
*rob*
I used to live on that block, and to me it’s an OK location, nothing more.
And before people start in about all the wonderful stores on 5th Avenue, if goin’ shawpin is really such a central part of your existence, why not move to Paramus? They even have a Fairway there.
At least the 5th Avenue in Manhattan has a nice park across the street.
Is that a petrified penis on the wall over the bed?