Co-op of the Day: 225 Park Place, #2G-H
Even if you this apartment wasn’t labeled as a “G-H” combination, it would be pretty obvious from looking at the floorplan that two mirror-image apartments had been put together. The result is a very large (1,200 square feet) two-bedroom apartment with a slightly untraditional layout that appears to work nonetheless. The apartment has lots of…
Even if you this apartment wasn’t labeled as a “G-H” combination, it would be pretty obvious from looking at the floorplan that two mirror-image apartments had been put together. The result is a very large (1,200 square feet) two-bedroom apartment with a slightly untraditional layout that appears to work nonetheless. The apartment has lots of prewar details and looks to be in excellent shape. Location-wise, it’s just a couple of blocks from Grand Army Plaza. The monthly maintenance is surprisingly low at $770. Nice place! How does the asking price of $699,000 strike you?
225 Park Place, #2G-H [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
That is a good point about needing to get something out of the closet while the bathroom is in use. Had not thought of that.
Nomi — why do you think brokers are like ax murderers, nazis, and people who take up too much space on the subway?
I just think saying “XXXX are people too” is an absurd comment, particularly if the meaning is “so be nice to them”.
Considering that “people” encompasses the entirety of humanity which includes vast amounts of evil and ugliness, I won’t cut anyone a break based on that categorization.
Ooo. I overdid it on the subway legs spread guy, I think. Not a pervert; just a gross guy taking up more room than he should? I guess he’s there to soften the murderer nazi comparison? Hm. Took me a few hours …
Well, still feel brokers get too much abuse on here and it makes the site move from say, “spirited” to just mean.
“‘Brokers are people too.’
So are ax murderers, nazis, and those guys who sit with their legs spread wide apart on the subway.”
I’m not a broker. I don’t have a broker in my family. I don’t have any broker friends. But as a human, I’m able to discern that these kinds of statements forward NOTHING. They give you and this site a bad name. Brownstoner is the most civil of the big NY real estate discussion. I read it everyday; I’ve learned a lot from it. But a comment that compares real estate brokers to murders, nazis, and sexual deviants makes me ashamed.
I think almost everyone is in agreement. It is two studios, in a good location, poorly combined to create a 1.5 bedroom apartment with a shitty kitchen that needs renovation, with awkward dressing room/bathroom combos. Corcoran as usual overpriced it.
My first reaction was – WTF! It will probably go for over 600K cause at least one person wont care about the strangeness that is Apt 2G-H. (I can just imagine coming to get something out of my closet and having my wife scream as she is sitting there taking a crap. Or worse, needing something from my closet, but locked out for 20 minutes as my MIL is taking a too-long shower.
Clearly someone took two enormous alcove studios and did the minimum amount of work to combine them into a 2 bedroom. I could almost see this working better as a big 1 BR with a formal dinning area (which personally I’d like much more than a 2nd bedroom).
That said its a lot of space in a nice building with an unbeatable location. Bottom line for me is great space with potential but in need of some serious work to make it functional.
“Brokers are people too.”
So are ax murderers, nazis, and those guys who sit with their legs spread wide apart on the subway.
I don’t see how the apartments would have been one-beds before the joining. Having said that, at 600 sq foot each, those would have been pretty spacious studios.
Two studios? Weren’t they two one-bedrooms?