Co-op of the Day: 32 Willow Place, #9
If you can handle the railroad layout and the fact that there’s only one small bathroom, this two-bedroom co-op at 108 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights if you’re a buyer who puts a premium on old-world charm. The master bedroom and hallways have lots of original detail and the kitchen and living area appear to…

If you can handle the railroad layout and the fact that there’s only one small bathroom, this two-bedroom co-op at 108 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights if you’re a buyer who puts a premium on old-world charm. The master bedroom and hallways have lots of original detail and the kitchen and living area appear to have been recently renovated. Not usually fans of exposed brick, we think it works nicely in this case. The 900-square-foot apartment has a monthly maintenance of $870 and is asking $710,000. You buying?
32 Willow Place, #9 [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
5th floor walk ups are for poor people
start choppin!!
> I thought a railroad flat meant rooms bumped right up
> against each other without hallways.
It does. This isn’t a railroad. More of a rabbit warren.
you call it a 5th floor walkup. I call in a built-in stairmaster exercise program no extra charge.
I am not loving this apartment. Aside from the obvious flaws mentioned above, such as being overpriced by at least $200,000, there have been too many changes and too many walls moved around. Makes me uneasy. Suspect the original setup was as a one bedroom with the bedroom in the square middle room, the kitchen in the back, and the dining/living room in front.
Why is everyone calling it a railroad flat? I thought a railroad flat meant rooms bumped right up against each other without hallways.
I don’t mind this layout at all, only the size of the rooms and the price and the walk up and the brick.
Ive wondered this out loud a number of times, but who else other than an anti-social single person, or a pied a-terre, can handle such small LR/DR areas? And at that price?
In defense of this agent, I think the sellers are setting the price here. When I saw this apt before, it was FSBO and it was asking a LOT. It eventually went to a broker and took a long time to sell, but it sold for more than I expected. And now those buyers are probably trying to get their money out. I wish them luck, but I doubt it. I did like the apartment, but it is way way up. Can’t see doing that with kids.
I think low-600s will do it – though I’ve been warned that banks can be reluctant to give mortgages on 5th-floor-and-higher walkups [I’m in a 4th floor walkup, so that was a concern for me too!].
W/D in the unit does mitigate the walkup issue, though… and @Maly: top floors do go for less unless they have roof rights, which this unit apparently does not.
At the end of the day, however, the Heights still commands a premium over other Brooklyn ‘hoods & the maintenance seems to be in-line with the footage [which I also suspect is below 900 ft2]. The location will likely cinch the deal.
In this case, I actually agree completely with you Ty!!
After hearing from Maly that two other apartments in the building sold in the 500’s, it makes this look like a joke.
“Typically in walk-up buildings, the higher floors get less, not more money.”
And YES!