Co-op of the Day: 40 Clarkson Avenue, #5F
It’s hard to find three-bedroom apartments for under $500,000. At $429,000, this one at 40 Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens certainly qualifies. It appears to be in decent shape, but the railroad kitchen is unlikely to get anyone to excited. We’re also not thrilled with the lack of prewar details. The monthly maintenance of…
It’s hard to find three-bedroom apartments for under $500,000. At $429,000, this one at 40 Clarkson Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens certainly qualifies. It appears to be in decent shape, but the railroad kitchen is unlikely to get anyone to excited. We’re also not thrilled with the lack of prewar details. The monthly maintenance of $1,001 for 1,250 square feet is reasonable though and there’s nothing wrong with being across the street from Prospect Park. What do you make of it?
40 Clarkson Avenue, #5F [Prudential Real Estate] GMAP P*Shark
What it does have that’s pre-war is larger-sized rooms – post-war buildings generally have smaller layouts.
We could kind of afford it, the location is great, and it’s actually decently-sized. Not bad, except I think there was a similar listing for about $399K this winter? I remember seeing a listing like that.
“the railroad kitchen is unlikely to get anyone to excited”
Well…if you serve oysters…
***Bid half off peak comps***
Ah, I stand corrected on the prewar point (although I was close!).
Nomi, I originally thought it was later than the 1930s because it looks a lot like the buildings in Peter Cooper Village, Stuyvesant Town and Parkchester (which were built during WWII), namely, plain brick facade, uniform window pattern, no cornice and no “base†(i.e., the brick goes all the way down to the sidewalk, instead of having stone cladding on some or all of the ground floor). I just took a closer look at the building on google streetview, and the brickwork does have a pared-down coining effect at the corners and seems to be slightly lighter at the top, suggesting that the top was re-bricked at some point, and maybe a cornice was removed. In the future, I should check google before posting a snarky comment.
In any event, I think the term “prewar†is usually used in real estate ads to refer to the classically inspired buildings of the 1920s and earlier, or at the latest the art deco buildings of the 1930s, both of which generally had more architectural details. Although this building technically is prewar, it has the pared-down aesthetic that one would normally expect to find in later buildings from the 1940s onward. In other words, it doesn’t have most of the stuff that makes prewar buildings desirable, other than maybe thick floors and walls.
Ah, thank you!
This looks like a very decent apt. to me. Foyer’s probably great.
The price is not out of line even with the maintenance.
$1001 is high maintenance for a non-doorman building.
If you click on ‘virtual tour’, the floorplan is there.
PropertyShark confirms 1938 as the building date, so truly pre-war. Many buildings in the area date to 1938 – 1939.
FWIW Oasis Map lists the year built as 1938.