Co-op of the Day: Turner Towers Three Bedroom
Based on the photos in this listing from last year and the latest one at the vaunted prewar building at 135 Eastern Parkway, this broker would do well to invest in a new photographer. No reason not to put your best foot forward. (For the record, this exterior photo is one we took!) Now, enough…
Based on the photos in this listing from last year and the latest one at the vaunted prewar building at 135 Eastern Parkway, this broker would do well to invest in a new photographer. No reason not to put your best foot forward. (For the record, this exterior photo is one we took!) Now, enough with the ranting…This place is massive—over 2,000 square feet—and has got all the standard prewar trappings one would expect. And, at $1,800, the maintenance comes out to less than a buck a foot per month. Given all this, the asking price of $1,100,000 seems perfectly reasonable to us. Agree?
135 Eastern Parkway [Susan Breen] GMAP P*Shark
Montrose and Boerumresident:
Mmmmmm. Good! No?
For Montrose there are Park Place, St. Marks Avenue and New York Avenue apartment houses, all in Crown Heights. (Read the copy: the “most exclusive section” of Brooklyn with the “best” shopping street, Nostrand Avenue!)
And my personal favorite, 919 Park Place. Its floor plans are wonderful jigsaw puzzles, providing gracious places to live while squeezing every profitable square foot for the developers.
Today’s condos don’t even come close!
And if Crown Heights’ old apartment stock were to go condo, the neighborhood would streak right passed the Slope!
NOP
NOP, damn you!!!! I’ll be engrossed for days! Thanks!!!! 🙂
NOP — thank you for that link!
`Get rid of the maids room, **insert laugh here** and make it one big kitchen. This layout is good, yay!! kitchen and bathroom window….so folks we have a winner here !!!
“I’d assume its full of stuck-up nosy busy-bodies”
i.e. its a co-op.
I’m sure its lovely inside, but I’m not living in a building that looks like mini-storage units for humans.
Posters:
Yes, the Lincoln Place apartment is nice, too.
As are so many pre-War apartments.
For those of you who enjoy the type, go to Columbia’s New York real estate brochure collection at http://nyre.cul.columbia.edu, which is loaded with Brooklyn buildings, their plans and renderings. (Manhattan buildings are coming soon.)
Park Slope, Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Flatbush (especially) are well represented. And you may find the building where you live — or want to live.
The site’s indexed by location, architect, management firm, etc., so it’s easy to compare and contrast the buildings.
Very interesting is how their managers’ “pitch” apartment living to the middle- and upper-middle-class markets of the time. The words are a little different from but the intent the same as Corcoran’s and Brown Harris Stevens’ website copy.
But be warned: You may lose hours enjoying this site.
And about Eastern Parkway prices: Historically there was competition between the Slope and the Parkway, the latter’s apartments built for people excluded from the Slope and, according to Jewish friends of my parents, to be better than the Slope. After decades of decline, the Parkway’s simply coming back to its old status but, from what I hear, with a more varied social profile.
Finally, about P.S. 9: I was there when the building was just about new. The halls gleamed. The teachers were terrific. And I had a better, more creative academic experience than at my Ivy college. (Back then, P.S. 9 was known for its “progressive,” interactive approach to learning, which the kids in my class loved.)
One of my favorite teachers lived on Prospect Park West. And I enjoyed whistling down the Parkway on my way to the parties she had for kids at her home on the “other side” of the park.
NOP
330p and not one mention of the 25% flip tax and its possible effect on sales price?
we’re slipping people.
I looked at a similar-sized-and-priced apartment @ 36th/3rd av in manhattan… I question why you’d pay the same to live in that location, with that level of renovation required.
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Only question is what’s a “Dakota-like†coop community” ?
See the movie Rosemary’s Baby
*rob*