Co-op of the Day: 101 8th Avenue
We wouldn’t mind coming home to this mansion every day. The Classical Revival building is divided into nine co-op apartments. This one’s a duplex with stately living, dining and kitchen areas on the first floor and two bedrooms down below; there’s also a small outdoor space. Even though the bedroom level looks like it might…
We wouldn’t mind coming home to this mansion every day. The Classical Revival building is divided into nine co-op apartments. This one’s a duplex with stately living, dining and kitchen areas on the first floor and two bedrooms down below; there’s also a small outdoor space. Even though the bedroom level looks like it might be a little on the dark side, we won’t be surprised if the 13-foot ceilings and stunning details on the main floor are enough to sell this place for the asking price of $995,000.
Listing #6174 [Warren Lewis] GMAP P*Shark
I put in a cash offer and got outbid.
I liked the place and unlike a number of other people posting here, I’ve looked at a lot of places in neighborhood. It was well over 900 square, perhaps some of you have trouble with multiplication tables. There’s a couple of good websites to help you out with that in the future.
Good look to everyone with their apartment searches–and some of you on the site, for god sakes, get a hobby or go out and start dating! You’re isolation from humanity is too evident!
Unlike a number of people placing aI’ve seena lot of units in the neighborhood and
word out is that some idiot paid over asking!
Overpriced for location and layout, not by much but I’d say $900k is more like it. Spiral staircase did seem scary and unsafe, probably best for a childless couple.
Went to the open house. Sorry to disappoint all the brokers who are pumping this property, but here are my observations:
1. Great location, close to transport
2. Weird layout – upstairs is basically just the cubic living room which is separated from the kitchen in a non-flowing kind of way. Living room looks right onto the street. People look right in from the sidewalk. Weird.
3. Downstairs BRs are small
4. Outdoor space is subterranean and claustrophobic
5. Storage space? A trap door in the bedroom that leads to a tight little dungeon. Imagine having to go through the apartment, down the spiral stairs, into the bedroom, lift the trapdoor and then climb down more stairs in order to get anything in or out of storage.
6. Small kitchen in the middle of traffic
HORRIBLE feng shui, if you get my drift
Nice trapdoor in the bedroom. “It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again…”
Hey what. You’re back? You never answered my questions from an earlier post. I would appreciate an answer now. I repeat:
The What – I understand you are a broker and therefore you are probably not all that busy right now, but for the love of god man, can’t you find another hobby? I don’t disagree with some of your stuff and I do appreciate the lead-in quotes, but if you spent as much time jogging or playing tennis as you spend posting on this site (and I can only assume a number of other real estate related sites), you would be an adonis and playing at Wimbledon by now 🙂
Also – your posts are so frequent, long and over-the-top, people are going to assume you are a nut and are not going to give any credence to your sometimes legitimate points. If you are truly trying to do a public service with these posts by getting people to face what you think is happening and adjust their decisions accordingly, I suggest you re-think your method of message delivery.
Posted by: guest at October 3, 2007 2:52 PM
2:52 here again. I also forgot to ask you, what is your story, The What? I know you said you are a broker, but do you live in Brooklyn? What neighborhood? Do you own or rent? If you do own, (i) is it an entire building or just an apartment and (ii) when did you buy? Given the pending doom, are you going to sell your place given you think prices are going to drop even farther, rent and then buy again when they fall later? Do you have a degree in economics? Other than sitting for a broker license (which anyone can do), what are your real estate credentials? Anyone can find articles to paste onto websites that support anything they feel like preaching. Since you have clearly proclaimed yourself THE expert on all matters concerning the economy and the real estate market, shouldn’t you provide us with proof of said expertise if you want to be taken seriously?
It’d be nice for a single person who entertains a little or maybe a couple. Too small for the price tag.
Kitchen is cramped. Bathrooms perfunctory (small on the plan and lack of photos).
I’m also annoyed as is someone above regarding RE agents adding to ceiling height. These are 10.5 to 11.5 ceilings, hello.
At first glance I thought…h’mmm, sell the house, buy this place and pay nothing but the maintenance…smaller, easier to take care of, relatively convenient.
Then I looked at the layout and realized it’s really way too small.
Looked again at the wide angle photos of the living room, the apt.’s one social space, and taking into account what the plans show, realized it’s really no great shakes at all.
Warren Lewis needs to rethink this one. I hope the owner didn’t buy it too pricey. Owner: please dress the place up a little. The furniture ain’t doin’ it. You want to sell the place, right? You’re trying to make a profit, right? Then, stick in some decent stuff and get something on the walls. The place is a bit dreary.
Office leasing dropped because there is limited supply. The vacancy rate is still the lowest it has ever been. That is all that matters.
There is no sense in arguing here – rich New Yorkers don’t believe this is a city. Believing 8th Avenue is busy is no more crazy than believing a typical Park Sloper believing a standard, 8-family walk-up apartment building is “out of context”. How is it possible that neighborhood is populated by people who had their entire neighborhood rezoned such that practically every multi-family apartment building exceeds the maximum developable bulk?
They’re crazy. There is no other explanation.