Co-op of the Day: 216 St. John's Place, #C
If you dig old houses but don’t have the coin for a whole one, this floor-through apartment at 216 St. John’s Place might feed your jones. The 22-foot-wide pad has lots of detail and a wonderful sense of scale. The new(ish) kitchen is attractive enough and the private deck is a nice bonus. The monthly…
If you dig old houses but don’t have the coin for a whole one, this floor-through apartment at 216 St. John’s Place might feed your jones. The 22-foot-wide pad has lots of detail and a wonderful sense of scale. The new(ish) kitchen is attractive enough and the private deck is a nice bonus. The monthly maintenance of $1,032 isn’t a steal for a non-doorman building, but given that the apartment weighs in at 1,145 square feet, it’s not terrible either. Asking price: $729,000. Nice, right?
216 St. John’s Place, #C [Housebywe] GMAP P*Shark
A one-bedroom, of course. And even for one-bedroom, a lousy layout. I don’t like the bathroom being accessible only from the bedroom.
The little room off the back is kinda cool (once you get rid of that color scheme!)- but with the windows and door, fireplace, and narrow width, does not offer a lot of practical, usable space. Consider it a little bonus room off the one bedroom, though largely a room to access the deck – like a garden room. Or perhaps a reading room. Also see the deck as just a little bonus of outdoor space, as it doesn’t have the nicest backyards to overlook, as there are large apartment buildings on Lincoln close on the back side instead of yards. It may overlook yards looking up the block – can’t tell.
I only really like the living and dining rooms. (No pic of bath.) The kitchen looks cramped, and I’m one who likes smaller kitchens. I’d be wanting to enlarge it some into the living room. I’d also get rid of the coat closet in order to create a hallway to access the bathroom without going through the bedroom – at least there is room to do that here. (This would give some more room for reconfiguring the kitchen as well.) Losing the coat closet would be a wash, as I’d put the closet back into the dining area alcove where it was removed – either as a closet or some nice built in storage (doors and drawers, perhaps a pull down desktop.) Hallway access to the bath would result in making the bedroom smaller, but I’d work more closet space into the corner beyond the bathroom door, so that would be a plus somewhat offsetting making the bedroom smaller.
Considering schoolyard noise is important if one ever works from home. But here, the deck is on the side, facing away from the school. And it looks like the back windows of the den overlook the parking lot adjacent to 209 Lincoln, so it is a bit up from the school itself. Still, if I worked at home, and wanted to work in the back, I’d take a look at the school expansion plans, as I seem to remember there was going to be a rooftop play area, and sound can bounce oddly off tall apartment building walls. Actually, I’d work from home in the front of this apartment anyways, not the back.
As to stoop removal, I can deal with that – it lets more light into the ground floor. But they did a lousy job here – facade on parlor floor looks naked – see how nice a job they did on the building next door, adding detail where the stoop was removed, so the facade looks better. Not a dealbreaker, just ugly facade, when it could look much better.
11217…get over to the OT for the discussion about Park Slope stores closing.
No, 11217…there are no windows on that back wall and the side wall to the left. The view to the right is a row of other green gardens….not some massive ugly tenement building like this house here has.
Dave come off it. The photo you posted is looking DOWN into a garden, which could very well look equally as impressive from this deck, except that they took the photo at a different angle.
If you hold the camera horizontal to the ground out your deck, I’m imagining the photo would be quite similar to this one.
BSD, you’re welcome to come over and see the view from my deck….
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/12/got_a_garden_sp.php?gallery1132Pic=2#gallery-1132
As far as price, most others seem to agree this is overpriced.
not typically a fan of period details and such – but this unit has some pizzazz
Great location, nice to have a deck (vs nothing), nice apt. (except layout). Some serious whiners here. Dave especially….show a pic of the view from your backyard…and pls remember when talking about prices where you live and where this is.
The maint amount is ridiculous. The den off the bedroom, would be like an extension of the master, LOL, master, there is only 1 bedroom….it could be an office, or a room where you do projects without messing the whole house, storage, (whatever the home owner needs are), a room that your guest will not need to go in. So this layout works for me.
I like the living / dining area, that is pretty. I loooove the area where the table is…
I don’t care about the view on the deck, what else could you expect it to be, but backyards from tenements with clotheslines…that is a typical Brooklyn backyard, no biggie.What else could the view possibly be?
So I will check the box yes, I like this one.
There was a glorified one bedroom like this on clinton ave(269 I think) and it went for 789K. Maintenance was under 1K though.
I could be very happy here.