Co-op of the Day: 39 Plaza Street West
After seeing the photo of the exterior of 39 Plaza Street West and reading the word “maisonette” in the listing, we were all excited to fall in love with this new one-bedroom listing. Unfortunately, ’twas not to be. The living room feels like a gigantic foyer and the kitchen reno leaves us limp. Oh, and…
After seeing the photo of the exterior of 39 Plaza Street West and reading the word “maisonette” in the listing, we were all excited to fall in love with this new one-bedroom listing. Unfortunately, ’twas not to be. The living room feels like a gigantic foyer and the kitchen reno leaves us limp. Oh, and the monthly maintenance of $1,258 feels high for a 750-square-foot co-op. Looks like the asking price of $420,000 is gonna have to come down.
39 Plaza Street West [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
It’s an OK size, but I have a problem with the front door doubling as the main light source for the living room. That reason alone means I could never live there.
This is a totally crappy layout. The realtor description is making it sound like a wonderland. Where would the furniture be placed. I would not need nor want 2 door ways into the bathroom.
Maybe if people would stop buying these crappy apartments for these insane prices, possibly the prices would go down.
This is not even worth 50K. …and how did the maintenance be over 1K, are you kidding???
This is a beautiful building, and I considered buying a 1BR flat here 15 years ago. However, the maintenance back than for the 1BR was almost 1,000! I did some checking and found out the building’s finances were awful–they had a big balloon mortgage, probably still do. Such a shame, as it is an architectural stunner.
just a second:
“leaves us limp”?
Is that a brokedick joke?
Interesting architectural style at the entry. Spanish Renaissance aka Plateresque.
I love it.
Pummel me if you want, but I’m going to take a contrarian view. I agree that the $1,300 monthly maintenance is excessive for this size apartment. But, I’ve seen much worse apartments, including substantially smaller, more non-descript Manhattan studios in the $300k – $400k range. At the right price (which has to take the high maintenance into account), someone who would otherwise buy a studio could instead buy a 1-bedroom with an eat-in kitchen. The layout is a little awkward, but the bedroom is decent size, and the living room appears to get decent light from the door and surrounding windows. Going back to the OT now. Carry on.
I am in “if you can’t say something nice” don’t say anything at all mode…
This unit is a former doctor’s office, and has been on and off the market for four years now. it was originally listed in 2004 for $299K and failed to find a buyer so was withdrawn from the market before coming back in 2007 at $479K, eventually reduced to $449K in October of that year, where it hung out, going through various brokers, until being permanently taken off the market in July 2008. It looks like they’ve done some minimal work on the kitchen, but the whole place needed to be redone (especially the bathroom). I guess they’ve staged it for this go-round — certianly looks better than it did when I last saw it and it was empty. 39 Plaza St. is a full-service, Rosario Candela-designed building that just completed a years-long facade restoration project. Love the building, not this unit.
What a dog! Ground floor apartments only make sense if there is a backyard. This is a glorified studio, probably used to be the super’s supply closet. Between the inflated square footage, the high maintenance, the horrible layout, it’s hard to see why anyone would want to buy this. Could you even rent it out for $1,250?