Co-op of the Day: 360 Clinton Avenue, #5B
Here’s a very generously-sized one-bedroom at one of the nicer prewar apartment buildings in Clinton Hill. The fifth-floor co-op at 360 Clinton Avenue has a good layout and some original architectural details to recommend it; and the monthly maintenance of $809 is pretty fair for a building with a part-time doorman. Still, the asking price…
Here’s a very generously-sized one-bedroom at one of the nicer prewar apartment buildings in Clinton Hill. The fifth-floor co-op at 360 Clinton Avenue has a good layout and some original architectural details to recommend it; and the monthly maintenance of $809 is pretty fair for a building with a part-time doorman. Still, the asking price of $520,000 seems like a bit of a stretch for a one-bedroom in this part of town, even if it is large and attractive.
360 Clinton Avenue, #5B [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
one bedrooms are not a good investment. never have been unless they are wildly lux and have incredible views or a terrace or something.
Hate the orange creamsicle living room paint color so much I think it damaged my eyes.
“Schmooze” can and often does mean merely to shoot the breeze, to chat. It can also mean something slightly more cynical than that, something like, but not quite as obvious as, kiss up.
Oh leave Minsky alone. Whether or not you like his style, he works hard for his clients and is really good at his job. You know what else you might see next to “schmooze” in the Yiddish dictionary? A diagram of how business gets done in the real estate world. Not saying the guy is perfect, but the amount of hate he gets from the Brownstoner peanut gallery is pretty ridiculous.
Whether or not there are 2-br’s going for high 300s/low 400s, this is a really nice apt in a really nice building half a block from the G and three blocks from the C, and pretty much immediately between all the cool stuff on the Bed Stuy side of Clinton Hill and the Clinton Hill side of Fort Greene. There’s a whole lot more than sf’age and number of bedrooms to value an apartment.
My understanding of “schmooze” is that it’s pretty innocuous, self-interested perhaps, but hardly as skanky as implied by “cheeseball.” Wish I could find my Leo Rosten “Joy of Yiddish.” At least half the definitions in Urban Dictionary seem inaccurate or far-fetched. To me, a cheeseball is probably a schmoozer (and not a very good one), but a schmoozer is not necessarily a cheeseball; he could even be a mensch under all that.
Did Minsky get Lasik?
The clinton hill coops always seem to be overly discounted, that’s what makes them such a value.
BKREGUY–agreed that its block to block and certainly I have seen real 2 beds on the market for less than this apt. When I was selling there were real two beds with great views selling across the street for 150K less than what I was asking for the 1 bed plus den in this building. For reasons that I understand after living here, this building commands a premium price vis a vis other large co-ops in the neighborhood. It is a really nice, well run, friendly building and the location is prime as far as Clinton Hill goes.
“Stay away from new construction, Nomi.”
Well, this seemed to be extra poor new construction. Can’t all be THAT bad.