Co-op of the Day: 101 Lafayette Avenue, #5FG
Wow, this has to be the nicest apartment at The Griffin we’ve ever seen! The fifth-floor, two-bedroom at 101 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene just hit the market asking $699,000. The co-op has the nice prewar bones you would expect plus some tasteful modern touches (love that kitchen!). Think it’ll get snapped up fast? 101…
Wow, this has to be the nicest apartment at The Griffin we’ve ever seen! The fifth-floor, two-bedroom at 101 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene just hit the market asking $699,000. The co-op has the nice prewar bones you would expect plus some tasteful modern touches (love that kitchen!). Think it’ll get snapped up fast?
101 Lafayette Avenue, #5FG [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Wow, they have the original windows. Such an important design element, they almost make a long narrow corridor like this, typical in 1930s apartments, and which I normally hate, bearable. I love the kitchen too. These two unusual features transform what is, as kensingtonka says, a very bad layout. Gorgeous! Though perhaps wildly impractical.
Bet the second bedroom was formerly the dining room, and bet the second bathroom was formerly the kitchen.
Re energy efficiency, if you can put storm windows or plastic and heavy curtains on these windows, they’ll be warm. Not that it matters: The coop is probably overheated.
> you’re getting a 500 square foot master suite, if you include the WIC
Methinks it’s closer to 350sf, but yes, it is spacious.
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So in an apartment like this you must always clean the kitchen!
that’s a plus! i like living in an apartment with an open kitchen into the living room because you’re more inclined to clean up after you cook and stuff.
*rob*
The downside is if someone drops by unexpected and you haven’t cleaned the kitchen. So in an apartment like this you must always clean the kitchen!
The plus to entering into the kitchen is tht if your arms are full of groceries, you can just drop them on the counter. Price does seem a tad high, but you’re getting a 500 square foot master suite, if you include the WIC.
There must be a contemporary version of these windows that are more practical, no?
This is a nice place. Someone already said it: an ideal bachelor pad. Great big master bedroom and a tight little guest room so that your guests do not get too comfortable.
Brilliant. I have no problem entering through this type of kitchen in an informal apartment like this. The building should do an a.c. masterplan because the big drawback with those windows is that they don’t lend themselves to a.c. installation, and I’m sorry, Brooklyn is unbearable without a.c. in the summer.
I find the comments about the kitchen-as-vestibule interesting. The old-law tenements I lived in up until a few years ago always had the front door off of the kitchen. And all across America, people use the front door only for company. Not that anyone is wrong on this point, but as I said, I find the comments above interesting.
Ouch. The Shark reports that unit 5FG went for $702,500 in August of ’07.