Co-op of the Day: 59 Pineapple Street, #6G
We’re surprised there wasn’t some better staging work done at this new listing at 59 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights. The small one-bedroom sure could have used it. For $340,000 in Brooklyn Heights, no one’s going to expect hugeness, but this place could have put a much better foot forward. (A floorplan would have been…
We’re surprised there wasn’t some better staging work done at this new listing at 59 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights. The small one-bedroom sure could have used it. For $340,000 in Brooklyn Heights, no one’s going to expect hugeness, but this place could have put a much better foot forward. (A floorplan would have been helpful too.) The co-op traded hands back in 2006 for $300,000, so the current asking price can’t be too far off the mark but better not to take any chances!
59 Pineapple Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Are these the “before” pictures?
Anyway, 300K was likely a high-water mark for this apartment. The seller will be lucky to sell for that much, which means that if he’d rented for $2,100 over the last 4 years, he’d be $24,000 richer today, tax break and all. How’s that for building a nest egg?
I get claustrophobic just looking at that listing.
*DeepBreath* and exhale . .
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100k/yr is peanuts here
what a ridiculous statement. 100K a year is peanuts!?!? or do you just mean that you need to make 100K a year these days to afford to buy a bag of peanuts at all the new yuppie food trucks!? if that is what you mean, then yes you are correct sir.
*rob*
Boerum… that’s an $80+/sq ft rental. $2000/month for a walk-in closet (err, I mean charming living room that comfortably seats two), a kitchen barely adequate for making tea, and that cavernous 9 x 11 bedroom with “generous closets.”
Also, NYC is way nicer than most other cities in the USA. And this one BR apt would still be more than $100K in the equivalently tony neighborhoods of SF, LA, or Chicago (and prob Boston and Phila., but I don’t know those cities).
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Rob, cause folks make a ton more here than elsewhere.
that really isnt the case for 95% of people who work in nyc. it’s total BS. even if they do make more, which they do in a sense, the cost of everything else is so marked up beyond belief that even if people DO make more here, they still live a worse quality of life. and dont be one of those people who say, just move. im not going anywhere. i will just bitch and moan about how ridiculous this city is until im in my grave.
*rob*
that is a crappy layout, no matter how bad it is decorated. …and that is pretty
Rob, cause folks make a ton more here than elsewhere. 100k/yr is peanuts here but is big sh*t elsewhere. when eying premo hood ppties, we’re talking about buyers with lots lots of $$$
Rob — Because after 20% down your monthly out of pocket is under $2100, which is about what this apartment would cost to rent.
After-tax deductions, this is probably closrer to $1750 a month.