Co-op of the Day: 914 8th Avenue, #5
This new listing at 914 8th Avenue in Park Slope is bigger than your average floor-through co-op and has a large private roof deck to boot. The configuration is definitely a little railroad-y but the main room looks big enough and open enough to compensate. The maintenance is a relatively cheap is $797. Can you…
This new listing at 914 8th Avenue in Park Slope is bigger than your average floor-through co-op and has a large private roof deck to boot. The configuration is definitely a little railroad-y but the main room looks big enough and open enough to compensate. The maintenance is a relatively cheap is $797. Can you say the same thing about the asking price of $885,000?
914 8th Avenue, #5 [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I guess they expect 2 people to need the toilet at the same time????? hence the side by side……
I never understand why a 1 bedroom needs 2 bathrooms anyway,and as for guests, so what, so they have to use the same bathroom as me, who cares. Besides how often do these guests really need the bathroom….
This is my nightmare apartment. Kitchen dropped in from nowhere, chopped off walls with no trim, metal door opening directly into living space.
->stargazer: your worry that the owner will have to schlep a stroller up 4 flights is unfounded – in every walkup I’ve ever seen [including the one I live in] strollers, etc get left in the building lobby/under the stairs.
->tiptoe: i’ve got the same side-by-side full bath & half bath set-up [though my half bath also has an alcove for the w/d plus storage] – essentially, we keep the 1/2 for guests and use it as a utility space. It’s not essential but very nice to have & in a floor-through layout, it’s the only practical way to add bathrooms [because they can share the same plumbing stack]. Also, keep in mind that appraisers highly value extra baths when formulating their quote and that can be extremely helpful in getting the mortgage you need.
->as for the general comments that the two small “bedrooms” really aren’t, I have to agree, though you really could get by with kids in each one, presuming you have access to a weekend house – which is pretty common in PS…
All in all, I think this place rates pretty high – $800K.
This apartment has 2 hall bathrooms sid-by-side. I always wondered about the desirability of this. Certainly 2 toilets are better than 1, but when they are side-by-side it sort of defeats the purpose.
Is this in PS 107? That could be a factor in price. And the inventory for decent 3 BRs is tight. Not to say that this could be considered a true 3 BR – more like a cozy 2BR. For some, including me, the parent of 5 & 7 yr olds who have lived on 4th/5th floor for the past 10+ years, anything below the top floor is a serious negative. I guess our bonus is seen by many as a negative. 750 would be nice to see, but I am often surprised by the amounts people will still pay for places – especially in PS, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill etc…
Umm… honestly, I only see 1 bedroom. Those other two rooms could be called something I’m sure, but ‘bedroom’ is not the word.
Ummm…it always baffles my mind that these layouts are advertised as a three bedroom. Only thing worse than a bedroom off a living room is a bathroom.
Yes. It’s true. Three bedrooms under a million in the Slope are a rare breed unfortunately.
It is so amazing that these tenements back in the day really were not desireable, and now look at the prices of them.
That little bedroom off the Living Room I believe is kinda like a sitting room, hence the wall they put up, but a bedroom, no.
Who in their right mind would want to have a baby and a stroller or carriage and lug it up to the top……..so not fun
I don’t think the layout is that terrible compare to the crap we see today, but it is really only for a single or couple, not a family. no way.
I’ve been in a number of apts with the same exact layout. One had the tiny small room off the LR knocked out, to give the LR a cute alcove. Another had the master BR split into two rooms (as originally intended). Another had the kitchen as a separate (bigger eat-in) room. Roof was accesable only through a hatch/ladder set-up. All felt a bit confining, due primarily to the narrowness of the floor-through. In any event, one of them, in the North Slope, which had the eat-in renovated kitchen and open alcove in the LR, was sold in early 2008 for about $720,000. It was on a lower floor without roof access. Considering that this is top floor walk-up, with lousy kitchen, in southern part of slope, small secondary rooms, and that roof is accesable through a hatch/ladder, I wouldnt pay much more than $725,000.