Co-op of the Day: 30 Monroe Place, #5A
This one-bedroom at 30 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is described in the listing as “magnificent” but we think “mediocre” might be a better adjective. The fifth-floor unit is perfectly nice but it’s a postwar apartment to start with (so low ceilings and no moldings) and a recent renovation didn’t help the aesthetic cause too…
This one-bedroom at 30 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is described in the listing as “magnificent” but we think “mediocre” might be a better adjective. The fifth-floor unit is perfectly nice but it’s a postwar apartment to start with (so low ceilings and no moldings) and a recent renovation didn’t help the aesthetic cause too much in our opinion. Still, it’s a very nice location and the building has a new roof deck. The monthly maintenance is $680 and the asking price is $495,000. Seems at least 20 percent overpriced to us.
30 Monroe Place, #5A [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Yeah, oops. There’s a huge closet in the chamber. Sorry. That’s virtually a forth bedroom . . ..
Nice reno, nice presentation by BHS. WIC in the bedroom, dining alcove are pluses. That said, this is just over 600 sf, near as I can tell. 400k would be well sold, I think.
$3,300 a month for what? Thats nuts. Even if its an awesome neighborhood, that is way too much to pay. Even at $400k, it would cost $2,800 a month. Lets remember, this is barely a 1 BR an it has no luxury features whatsoever.
I agree that the bath near the door is not ideal but I think it is better than a bath through the bedroom.
Posted by: sam at May 20, 2009 4:39 PM
Definitely agree. I could never understand that :o).
ken: I was not referring to you, it was nomi who wrote that it was a closetless chamber (bedroom). I see a big closet in the plan.
I agree that the bath near the door is not ideal but I think it is better than a bath through the bedroom.
Sam, you referring to me? I can definitely read a floorplan and am still saying that it’s a pretty bad layout (I’ve definitely seen way worse).
Have a good booze trip :o).
I think part of the problem may be that some of my fellow posters cannot read a floorplan that well.
I see a really big closet in the bedroom, why is it a “closetless bedroom”?
the layou is classic, how could it have been a studio?
sheesh,
g’night all!
I’m hauling my asshat down to Fifth Ave for Happy Hour!!!
Again with the moldings! Someday someone is going to have to explain to me what is so damm attractive about crown moldings. Are there people out there who honestly pass on apartments because they lack moldings?!
That said this place is way overpriced, even for Brooklyn Heights. There are better laid out apartments (also on prime blocks) in the Heights listed for similar prices. Unless I’m really missing something in these pictures and the apartment is a lot bigger than it looks I say this place shgould be listed in the low 400s, not the upper 400s.
Kens, you doubt my space planning abilities?!?! I can eke out a 3-bedroom out of this one!
Dining Alcove = Bedroom
Chomber – move wall adjoining foyer to the left by a couple of feet.
Foyer = Bedroom – Built wall from right of window toward the living room, angle to create a passageway, so you can get into living room.
So what the bedrooms are tiny?? Have you seen some of the new Condo developmnents!
Naysayers!