Co-op of the Day: 150 Joralemon Street, #5F
150 Joralemon, the 89-unit co-op in Brooklyn Heights, is quite a prewar looker from the outside, which makes the 80s-modern vibe of this fifth-floor apartment a bit of a surprise to see. There’s no floorplan provided so it’s a little hard to figure out where the raised bedroom and kitchen come into play. Regardless, it’s…
150 Joralemon, the 89-unit co-op in Brooklyn Heights, is quite a prewar looker from the outside, which makes the 80s-modern vibe of this fifth-floor apartment a bit of a surprise to see. There’s no floorplan provided so it’s a little hard to figure out where the raised bedroom and kitchen come into play. Regardless, it’s a clean space with nice views; the only downer is the maintenance of $1,028. The asking price is $369,000, down from an initial $389,000 when it hit the market last month. Reactions?
150 Joralemon Street, #5F [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
“2 blocks to the Brooklyn Promenade with fantastic Manhattan views”
Another SHUT UP to the realtors.
Madeline & Gregory Williamson have you walked to the Promenade from Joralemon & Clinton???? Considering that the first southern entrance to the Promenade is on Remsen, oh, I’d say that’s 4-1/2 blocks(I’m also counting the little strip between Pierrepont and the actual entrance).
If this is the Coop of the day, which assumes that it is chosen above others, I am doing a happy dance that I took out a big mortgage and tortured myself for 2 years doing a basic gut renovation of my brownstone. Because if this coop is a deal of any kind, I am a genius. First, it is ugly as original sin (I don’t even think you could sleep in that bedroom, much less anything else) and then you get to enjoy holding hands with the coop board in a communal Kumbayah to run the place. Arghhhh….
Couldn’t hook up with anyone tall if you had that bedroom space.
That would be kinda strange to work with one’s mother. The Frateli brothers tried that in Goonies (my second Goonies reference today) and they all ended up in jail.
Do you think there is a Sloth Williamson that they keep chained up all day eating ice cream?
Umm… it’s not even a “glorified studio” — It’s just a studio. And a whopping 400 sq ft of one too!
What’s the maintenance then? $2.50 per sq ft?! Really?
There must be a guy giving gum jobs in the elevator, right?
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a mother and son team
LOL. who in their right mind would wanna work with the MOM?
*rob*
DeLepp is right, glorified studio. Plus, those loft spaces get SO hot in the summer.
I say no dice based upon that and the high maintenance.
not only is it not a 1-br, but from the floorplan and weird angled bird’s eye picture, i think this is a sleeping loft. that’s like a -1 BR.
Actually, the Williamsons are my favorite realtors, a mother and son team I think. I encountered them a few times when searching for a condo a few years ago. They tell it pretty straight forward, the least amount of bull crap I got from any realtor. They’ve been the agents for several apartments in this conversion building. The apartments seem odd because the designers took advantage of the high ceilings by raising up the bedrooms 3 or 4 feet and creating a storage crawl space beneath them. It’s a nice feature if you’ve got a lot of crap your storing, but if I were to buy in that building, I would have tore up the storage space, created bedrooms with high ceilings and built better closets. Overall, I found that building to be appealing and a decent value despite the high maintanance.