Co-op of the Day: 125 Eastern Parkway 3 Bedroom
Real family-size prewar apartments are hard to find to come by in Brownstone Brooklyn, so we were interested to come across this FSBO listing (yet another one using free blogging software) for a three bedroom at 125 Eastern Parkway. The 1,800-square-foot place combines two apartments, the D and E lines. Given that 5D sold for…
Real family-size prewar apartments are hard to find to come by in Brownstone Brooklyn, so we were interested to come across this FSBO listing (yet another one using free blogging software) for a three bedroom at 125 Eastern Parkway. The 1,800-square-foot place combines two apartments, the D and E lines. Given that 5D sold for $725,000 last June and 3E sold for $271,371 in 2004, the asking price of $900,000 (or $500 a foot) seems quite reasonable. We also like the layout: If it were our place, we’d blow open the whole center of the apartment, combining the current kitchen, dining room, living room and den into one gigantic space. But that’s just us. Looks like the apartment has been on the market since February 1. We bet it’ll be snapped up by someone at one of the two open houses this weekend.
125 Eastern Parkway FSBO [Blogspot] GMAP P*Shark
Eastern Parkway is a wonderful boulevard. Having the local traffic and parking on the service streets, while keeping the wide boulevard for cars is brilliant city planning. The apartment buildings are grand and spacious, you have museums and other cultural institutions and homes, as well. One could certainly live on a far less pleasant thorofare.
Merychawick, you’ve been voted curmudgeon de jour. You want to bulldoze Admiral’s Row and you hate Eastern Parkway. What do you like?
This apt. looks ugly to me. What’s with the subway tiles mixed with the mosaic and the cheap and cheesy kitchen?
I agree Eastern Parkway is fantastic…..Transportation, Culture, and liveliness are what make this street (particularly between Washington and Underhill) so special…
Merychawick: Maybe you want to say what you don’t like about Eastern parkway? To me it is grand and reminds me of Central park West – but I don’t like Central park West! Too institutional feeling. But if you want the whole pre-war apartment thing, it is really quite amazing how cheap this is compared to the Manhattan equivalent. Did I just say that 900k was cheap? Time to start bringing the currency to the grocery store in wheelbarrels.
Yes, it’s an okay deal.
But it’s still on Eastern Parkway, which sucks.
I saw a similar one a bit nearer Grand Army with Brown Harris as the broker. That one had if anything even more space, but the kitchen and bathrooms were a mite ratty. This one doesn’t seem to have the same problem.
I saw this listing last weekend too (its first showing) and thought it was a great apartment. Even though it is in the back of the building the apartment felt light and it was quiet. It was by far the biggest listing we have been able to find at this price point—but we are still in the “looking†phase….I wish the couple luck!
>$1300 maintenance is also a bit of a turn-off even if that isn’t so high on a per-square-foot basis
Yeah, yeah…brokers really suck…How banal and facile the comments on this topic always are…