Co-op of the Day: 570 Ocean Parkway, #1H
The location of this studio apartment at 570 Ocean Parkway may not be everybody’s idea of convenient, but it’s got a lot of charm and the price for an entry-level apartment is hard to beat: $110,000. Granted it’s a studio, but it’s still got 500 square feet of space, which puts the asking price at…
The location of this studio apartment at 570 Ocean Parkway may not be everybody’s idea of convenient, but it’s got a lot of charm and the price for an entry-level apartment is hard to beat: $110,000. Granted it’s a studio, but it’s still got 500 square feet of space, which puts the asking price at around $220 a foot. The kitchen could use some updating, but other than that the co-op appears to be in reasonable shape and still in possession of most of its original detail like moldings and wood floors. Think this is a good deal?
570 Ocean Parkway [Abacus Properties] GMAP P*Shark
I have friends who live just a couple blocks away from this place and once you cross Ocean Parkway there’s a lot of restaurants and bars on the other side. It’s not a bad area at all.
Never mind being a young person, Minard and others. I’m 51 years old…I’m making a decent living but certainly no more than I did ten years ago. I bought my home 16 years ago. If I had to buy a home today, I’d find myself on the fringes of the boroughs. Sure, I’m pleased with the appreciation of my home’s value but, unlike most of my neighbors, I don’t consider that a major victory. What counts is having a home you can afford, one in which you can raise a family and function as a New Yorker. The real value of a home is the quality of life it affords you. I feel bad for young people now, but also for hard-working thirty and forty-somethings who hope to buy, not rent, in NYC.
I don’t doubt there is a lot going on there, but it all revolves around the Shul and the other religious clubs and organizations.
Oh, you can die of loneliness anywhere. Tho, I wouldn’t want to live out on Ocean Parkway without my car. But why can’t meet the love of your life on Ocean Parkway?
I don’t find it depressing.
OK, Minard. Valid point. I almost succumbed to that fate in Jackson Heights.
Great view, but watch that first step:
– http://www.romesg.com/wp-content/uploads/flammarion.jpg
Fun fact: If you go two more blocks down Ocean Parkway, you fall off the edge of the earth.
OH NOOOO!!! I live at the edge of earth and didn’t even know it. :o(
> A young single person would die of loneliness out there.
Nah, they’d be eaten by the dragons that live out this way.
Fun fact: If you go two more blocks down Ocean Parkway, you fall off the edge of the earth.
I was ready to offer 95, all cash, increase my living space by 25% and decrease my housing costs by almost a grand a month … but then I read Minard’s last post. I’m lonely enough four stops closer to Manhattan.