Co-op of the Day: 140 Eighth Avenue, #5L
This new two-bedroom listing at 140 Eighth Avenue in Park Slope has a nice prewar vibe (in an Art Deco kind of way), good natural light and a recently renovated kitchen to recommend it. Shortcomings include a small second bedroom and no second bathroom (as this floorplan shows). And at $1,248, the monthly maintenance isn’t…
This new two-bedroom listing at 140 Eighth Avenue in Park Slope has a nice prewar vibe (in an Art Deco kind of way), good natural light and a recently renovated kitchen to recommend it. Shortcomings include a small second bedroom and no second bathroom (as this floorplan shows). And at $1,248, the monthly maintenance isn’t cheap. Asking price of $735,000 isn’t too bad for two bedrooms of this quality in this location though. What do you think this’ll end up going for?
140 8th Avenue, #5L [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
The steel casements were replaced with double pane gasketed casements in the late 1990’s. I understand it’s a huge improvement in terms of air infiltration. When I lived there, there was no upcharge for window AC’s.
The lobby is over the top – gigantic and very art deco. When she visited, my mother always wanted to sit in it and drink cordials. There are also two large, landscaped, courtyards in the midblock.
agree with prior poster that if you think 8th Avenue is noisy, you have waited too long to move to the sticks.
seems reasonable. AS 11217 points out, the maintenance includes electricity (maintenance always includes heat).
I don’t like those steel casement windows. I know they are stylish but they are leaky and very hard to deal with during air conditioning season. By the way, most coops that include electric in the maintenance add a surcharge for each air conditioner. I would look into that and also how other tenants have altered the windows for a.c. installation.
I do not think one can live in Brooklyn in the summer, in an apartment, w/o a.c.
PS the lobby is a wee bit over the top.
If I recall correctly, this building has a flip tax. In addition to the high maintenance, that’s what makes the price on the units so difficult to swallow.
8th Avenue is quiet if you compare it to nearly every street in Manhattan, which is where most of these people are moving from. If you live at 76th and Columbus, or 68th and Lexington or 48th and 9th Avenue or 32nd and Park Avenue or….8th Avenue in Park Slope feels incredibly quiet and bucolic.
8th is not as heavily traveled as 7th. Or 5th or 4th. Probably about the same as 6th (e.g., its a non-issue).
I used to live in this building. Unless things have changed, it’s pretty much a full service and electric is included in the maintenance. This apartment is on the Fisk side of the building, so street noise shouldn’t be an issue. The 8th Ave. side isn’t bad for noise either since they replaced all the windows in the late 1990’s. All in all, it’s a pretty nice building, but because they have a lot of staff, the maintenance is high. The biggest drawback I found was the noise translation within the building because it is wood frame construction. I had one deaf neighbor who talked on the phone a lot, and my upstairs neighbor did something that involved nursing sick dogs. A fan nicely muffled the noise.
I missed the electricity part. Part of why people move to these bstone neighborhoods is to have the best of both worlds, quietish streets and be in NYC.
If you move to NYC and you think 8th Avenue is noisy, it’s time to reassess why you haven’t moved to the suburbs yet.
As was said, this maintenance is not at all high give that it includes heat and electricity.