Co-op of the Day: 1 Pierrepont Street, #7B
Co-op buildings in Brooklyn don’t get much more blue chip than Brooklyn Heights’ 1 Pierrepont Street. This particular three-bedroom listing, which has Harbor and skyline views, hit the market in late February for $3,200,000 and was recently reduced to $2,950,000. It looks as classic and tasteful as you’d expect and has the maintenance ($3,238) to…
Co-op buildings in Brooklyn don’t get much more blue chip than Brooklyn Heights’ 1 Pierrepont Street. This particular three-bedroom listing, which has Harbor and skyline views, hit the market in late February for $3,200,000 and was recently reduced to $2,950,000. It looks as classic and tasteful as you’d expect and has the maintenance ($3,238) to match. There can’t be any shortage of people who would like to live here so it’ll be interesting to see where the selling price ends up!
1 Pierrepont Street, #7B [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
any extended guests i ever have who need “their own precious bathroom” – mcdonalds is right down the street.. seriously!
*rob*
Sam,
I would say no to the running in the same circles part.
A lot of more expensive homes are being bought by younger, nouveau riche people, anyway. New media, finance, corporate, law, but still not really old money. Brilliant transplants who made a killing, yes. Grew up in that orbit or welcomed in? Not the stories I’ve heard.
Saminthehood…
Yes, the building is on par….I believe there are two apartments per floor.
Maybe someone can answer this, and excuse my ignorance. There is always talk of the blue-chip, high-pedigree, social climbing folks in this and other buildings in Brooklyn Heights. Do these people run in the same social circles as the Park Avenue/5th Avenue set? Are these buildings on par with some of those UES coops? I just assumed that social register types would never leave Manhattan..? Any insight..
Yeah, I never have problems with guests staying longer than I want them to. I mean, sure, some people can’t state their preferences for when guests should leave – they should learn to. If you have guests that stay even after you’ve told them it is time to leave, then you have bigger problems with who you associate with.
Me, I like having a nice guest room with a very comfortable mattress for guests – I want to encourage my out-of-town friends to come stay – I enjoy their company.
I’d totally redo that bath to accomodate houseguests in the library comfortably. (Not that I’m buying here…just, say, in a similar floorplan…).
One could also use the second bedroom for guests, I suppose, and put the office in the library – but I prefer my study/office to be more private (so I don’t have to clean up papers when I have company – I just close the door), and my guest room to be the room that is the extention off the living area. Have that now, with sofabed in guest room. I think about adding a wall of shelves there to make it library-like – would be cool with a beautiful wood murphy bed/shelving unit, as would the library in this apartment here.
Huh. I’d hate to have to have my house designed to deter long term guests. Would rather just make it clear AND have it be comfortable for when people ARE staying. But maybe it’s more of a problem than I would know.
The laundry room and half bath were originally the maid’s room and bath. This is definitely a two-bedroom apartment with a library that can double as a guest bedroom. I don’t think it would take much to turn the half bath into a full bath. That would improve the functionality of the place. On the other hand, you may not want to make it too inviting for your guests to overstay their welcome. If I had a lot of money I would prefer this to a 2.9 million dollar brownstone. It’s swankier and more exclusive; You would only need to hire a part-time maid; it is all on one level; is more secure; and it has water views. And as I mentioned earlier, friends and family would not feel free to drop in and stay for a couple of months.
even accounting for the BK Heights premium hood and coop factor, it pales in comparison to that PPW duplex:
http://www.bhsusa.com/brooklyn/beautifully-renovated-duplex-on-ppw/coop/910767
The kitchen, pantry thing I don’t like. That whole area of kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, and foyer need to be re configured.
Could this have possibly been 2 apartments combined together?
I too, like another poster wrote, dont like the fact that you have to go through rooms to get to the bathroom.
Not that i feel certain rooms need privacy, I mean you are not having strangers in your home, so they see the bedroom, who cares.