Co-op of the Day: 175 Eastern Parkway, #6N
We love this seven-story prewar building at 175 Eastern Parkway–the 45-degree angle of the facade gives it a special grandeur. This particular 570-square-foot one-bedroom is cute but rather small, so we’ll be curious to see what it ends up selling for. The asking price is $379,000 and the monthly maintenance is $679. 175 Eastern Parkway,…
We love this seven-story prewar building at 175 Eastern Parkway–the 45-degree angle of the facade gives it a special grandeur. This particular 570-square-foot one-bedroom is cute but rather small, so we’ll be curious to see what it ends up selling for. The asking price is $379,000 and the monthly maintenance is $679.
175 Eastern Parkway, #6N [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
Do you have any pictures of Crown Heights when you lived there?
And do you remember the apartment at 770 St. Marks Ave.? Do you have any photos or memories of that building? I would love to hear or see them.
Thanks!
Brownstoner:
This looks like a “Depression Special” like thousands of other pre-war apartments hacked into small units when things got tough in the 30’s and 40’s. Likely it was the tail end of a once grand apartment with proper foyer, living room, dining room and — probably — maid’s room(s).
Years ago I was perusing a book on New York and came on an early photo of 175, probably part of its original marketing campaign. A terrific, long-nosed limousine was parked in front. (A Packard, Lincoln, or Pierce Arrow?) It wasn’t likely that prospective tenants wanted a couple of awkward rooms and a pullman kitchen like the ones now for sale. Before they went broke, they were probably “garmentos” (garment factory owners and managers) looking for the Brooklyn equivalent of Fifth and Park Avenue apartments in walking distance of the Union Temple at Grand Army Plaza, socially one of the most prominent synagogues in the city.
During the 50’s I had a friend in the building. It had doormen and elevator operators, sure signs of “class.” I don’t recall the potted fronds, but cinched curtains were behind the doors’ plate glass just as they are now — and as they were in that early photo!
My last visit to the place happened during the Kennedy administration. The lobby elevator doors slid open and out came a gaggle of ladies in pill box hats doing their Jackie immitations. It was the middle of the day. Apparently, there were still Brooklyn “ladies who lunch” frequenting 175. The elevator operator bowed slightly, then whisked me to my friend’s floor.
His family’s apartment was relatively large, with enough of the original plan and detail to make it impressive for a kid. Comparing the apartment above with my memory of his makes me think units in the building must be wildly different and that the experience of living in one can be entirely different from living in another, more Depression side affects.
By the 60s, Eastern Parkway was one of the few streets where white families still lived in Crown Heights. I recall during the late 50s and early 60s pals of mine moving there, their families lingering a few years before pushing on to the suburbs.
Nearly $400,000 for a small place on the Parkway? It would have been unimagineable then, when big new houses in Westchester and Long Island could be had for the low five figures!
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
phbalanced wrote: “. . . you don’t know it now.”
Dear PH, what is it like now? I lived in that area some time ago and would like to know, if you would please tell me, what the area is like now, compared to even 2-3 years ago.
About this particular coop, I wonder what side the windows face. If it were Eastern Parkway with a museum view, it seems that would have been mentioned as a selling point.
With such outliers, I think you need to show median and not mean (average).
Dunno about price, but I love that building. And location seems prime to me — I think Eastern Parkway, at least until Washington — if not Franklin — is a little different than the rest of Prospect Heights.
Has to go for under 300K It looks small and poorly laid out…and in terms of the neighborhood I live there and would never pay 665 a square foot! Especially on Washington Ave.
And to think, in 1992 a two bedroom 2 bath apartment facing the museum was up for sale in this building for only $30K but I was too young and broke to afford it. 🙁
285k & be happy with it
squatterights- if it’s just a matter or buying vs renting I do agree with you. In the present market i would rather rent. I was responding to the “this neighbrohood” comment, not the question of practicality.