Co-op of the Day: 149 Willow Street, #2D
This handsome listing at 149 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights just hit the market with a price tag of $1,250,000. We’re digging the prewar details and the abundance of windows in the two-bedroom, two-bathroom pad; we also like the unusual design of the prewar exterior. Our back-of-the-envelope square footage calculation comes out to around 1,200,…
This handsome listing at 149 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights just hit the market with a price tag of $1,250,000. We’re digging the prewar details and the abundance of windows in the two-bedroom, two-bathroom pad; we also like the unusual design of the prewar exterior. Our back-of-the-envelope square footage calculation comes out to around 1,200, which makes the monthly maintenance of $1,584 tolerable given that it’s an elevator building. What do you make of it?
149 Willow Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Unrelated to the above: Man, whoever lives there has got some SEATS in that place. Couches, chairs, loveseats, dining sets, armchairs… Phew.
North Heights… I’m referring to brownstones throughout Brooklyn, not only Brooklyn Heights. BH brownstones pay significantly more than similar properties elsewhere, and there is a tax inequity that should be corrected.
Brooklyn has changed, the standards of tax distribution should change. Why should homes in BH pay more than Park Slope or Prospect Heights or Cobble Hill?
Thanks for the Propertyshark info… will check it out.
“I’m very attached to Park Slope now (shocker, right?!)”
LOL, 11217! You are? Really? 😉
Yeah, I mean, there are a number of other neighborhoods I’m considering, in which I’m sure I’d be very happy, and, as it happens, thanks to Brownstoner, I have friends in all of these nabes, but I’m not ready to give up the search in the Heights/Hill just yet.
And the idea of living close to PPark is also very appealing. For 10 years, I lived within a couple blocks of Central Park — east and west sides — and loved it.
Believe me, CGar I totally get it.
I’m very attached to Park Slope now (shocker, right?!) and can’t really imagine leaving even though there are many other brownstone neighborhoods I love.
Home is home, you’re absolutely right.
“I live on Willow St. and pay 24K a year in co-op maintenance. It makes no sense that a 2-3M brownstone pay taxes of 5K per year. At least have a more equitable tax rate. A simple 1 per cent of assessed value would help out NYC greatly.”
I don’t think the multi-million brownstones in Brooklyn Heights, on average, pay only $5K per year in taxes. Some maybe but probably not most. That level of taxes is much more common in the rest of the brownstone belt. I actually think the price appreciation over the last several years in say, Park Slope, has far outpaced the tax increases in that area because of the 6-20 limitation. Propertyshark has a nifty google map which plots taxes per square foot for each property, in $1 increments. Above $5/sf is pink and red, below that is light and darker blue. If you look at the brownstone areas as a whole, Brooklyn Heights is very pink/red and everywhere else is blue. My guess is that a typical owner in Park Slope with a 4000sf townhouse on a park block, or even an owner on a choice block in Cobble Hill, is paying a lot less in taxes than a equivalent Brooklyn Heights house, ever after accounting for the variation in market value. Just to finish off my point, I think Brooklyn Heights co-op taxes are reflective of this differential.
11217, Ringo, Minard —
I’m not saying I wouldn’t enjoy the services if I had them, but they aren’t a priority for me. And I lived in 3 different full service buildings in Manhattan, plus I have part-time doormen now, so I know what I get. That said, 11217 and Ringo, you’re right, too, $20k is a lot to pay for something I don’t really want/need, and LMAO to hiring *rob*!!!
I love Park Slope, 11217. Don’t get me wrong. I just prefer the Heights/Hill. First, it’s been my home for 15 years, and I have friends on every block, and I love all my neighborhood spots. Not that PSlope is far away, or that I couldn’t have all that there, but home is home. 2. I love my 45-minute walk to and from work over the Brooklyn Bridge every day and that I couldn’t have from almost anywhere else.
I’ve experiences full-service doorman buildings, and I’ll never buy into one again. How many times can you say, “How ’bout them Knicks?” I’ve had the same UPS and FedEX guy for years and years. Have no issue getting packages. Laundry guy has a key. And happy not to have to pony up all that money come christmas time. Plus, it’s not cheap. YOu can have someone come over to your house weekly for an in-home massage OR a doorman. For the same money.
For my money, I want a live-in SKILLED super and nothing else.
I forgot about the walk-up/CDog issue when I posted it. But no matter, it’s an excellent space and I’m sure whoever buys it will be thrilled.
Just was showing what similar money buys.
I know you want to be in Brooklyn Heights and not the Slope.
CGar, you silly thing…
Once you experience it, you will never go back. Believe me.
If you are paying these sorts of numbers, you want convenience and yes, a little luxury.