Co-op of the Day: 154 Bergen Street, #2
We’re not sure it’s quite worth $850,000, but this floor-through apartment at 154 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill sure is nice looking. It helps that the two-bedroom co-op is located in a 25-foot-wide house. It’s also one of those pretty rare examples of where an owner has managed to managed to create a clean, modern…
We’re not sure it’s quite worth $850,000, but this floor-through apartment at 154 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill sure is nice looking. It helps that the two-bedroom co-op is located in a 25-foot-wide house. It’s also one of those pretty rare examples of where an owner has managed to managed to create a clean, modern vibe without sacrificing the essence of an old townhouse. What do you think it’ll end up going for?
154 Bergen Street, #2 [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Ringo, you obviously know a very limited number of parents if “many/most” would prefer private. The ones I know are pretty happy with their good public schools — the reason they are so crowded is because parents are so happy there and word gets around. Even the middle schools are popular — I’ve never heard so many parents whose kids are ranking IS 51 first (over schools like Mark Twain) after visiting and seeing the school. Frankly, the education at many public elementaries is probably better than parochial schools (one reason many parochial schools have lost students is that their families are now using the good publics). This particular apartment is NOT zoned for a good elementary. But you are showing your ignorance when you say “the testing is unrelenting”. My kids haven’t had any test prep so far this year, and it generally consists of a few weeks before the standardized test, for 1.5 or 2 hours a day at most. Kids really do learn — in fact, the smart kids from publics who apply to expensive private middle schools are often the best students in those schools — despite the so-called disadvantage of 6 years of “inferior all test-prep all the time education” you think they are getting in publics.
Actually, the listed apartment is on the even-numbered side of Bergen Street, which is zoned for PS 261.
Seriously the place was not listed in contract when I linked it.
BoreumHill, well then I guess that sums up which apartment was more desirable. 😉
Posted by: 11217 at February 18, 2010 3:19 PM
LOL
Yep – assuming Bergen Street sits on the market for 10 more weeks.
😉
Good god man. You’re in the wrong business!
Seriously the place was not listed in contract when I linked it.
BoreumHill, well then I guess that sums up which apartment was more desirable. 😉
Noki,
It wasn’t in contract 2 hours ago!!
I demand my 6%!!!!!!!!!!!!
one-one, the apartment you posted a link to is already in contract. Guess someone agreed with you.
I like it, but the price is too high – I’d have to do something with the fireplace — I don’t like that brick (how hard would it be to remove the brick and replace with a marble facade??) and the kitchen doesn’t work for me, but it is nice to live in a wide brownstone. Cheap maintenance. GOOD. I agree with the price brownstones estimated here.
11217, most people would rather pay to be in a good school district, no doubt. But many/most parents I know would prefer private these days (I have young kids). The “good” schools are very crowded and the budget cuts are just unbelievable. And the testing — the fricking testing — is simply unrelenting. Schools these days are really mandated to bring all kids up to a certain level. If you deliver your kid to school in September and he/she already is at that level, you can expect not a lot of progress. The whole system is dispiriting.
Which is to say, while everyone prefers a “good” school zone, many people would say that that 9k in savings cuts a private school tuition down to something that might be possible and it would cover the cost of a parocial education.
Of course, I think I’d want to be out of this apartment by the time a kid is school age.