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
Im surprised Butterfly didnt make the obvious poo-mist issue comment given the bathroom door opens to the kitchen. “Hey, this tastes like sh.t.” will be a more literal than figurative comment.
They should have used the WIC as a kitchen, so you could enter into a foyer/dining area. Also, I would have built out a closet for the second bedroom into the master bedroom. Then you can 86 one of the hallway closet to create a door to the second bedroom instead of the horrible entrance off the living room. It would make the narrow living room more usable: now it’s trying to be a hallway so there is no way to have a comfortable social seating arrangement.
The walk-in kitchen is a bummer, but nicely done.
The windows and lighting look good.
Location is good.
This one’s for a bachelor at 10% off ask.
Really dislike that layout. Especially if you’re entertaining people and cooking. There had to have been a better way.
They really should give the name of the architect. I don’t like the layout at all, with the dreaded narrow DLK just like the new development condos. And why are there no closets in the second bedroom? Was it so hard to have the doors on the other side?
That said, I have a soft spot for casement windows and the location. It will be a good test for Antidope’s theory about a market uptick since last year, as the apartment failed to sell last Spring/Summer.
Rob – my old Jersey City Hts apartment
my front door opened RIGHT into the bathroom door
weird!
d’oh! Snark beat me to it: this is a combo of 2 studios – not a ‘real’ prewar 2BR [hence the back-to-back full baths].
I wanted to defend this place, but having looked it over, I have to say they are reaching way too high with that price.
wow i never realized entering thru the kitchen was so frowned upon. im trying to picture entering thru the kitchen now.. lol now im picturing an apartment where you enter thru the bathroom.
what is the ideal entrance for an apartment? living room? foyer?
*rob*
The poor floorplan is the result of two things:
1. This is two apartments stitched together
2. This building started life as a hotel, not an apartment building.