Co-op of the Day: 11 Monroe Place
Despite a blue-chip location and a charming exterior, this two-bedroom, garden-level co-op at 11 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is leaving us a little limp. Maybe we’re nitpicking, but when renovating an apartment in this price range (asking price is $1,175,000), why not spring for some nicer doors? These look a little cheap to us…
Despite a blue-chip location and a charming exterior, this two-bedroom, garden-level co-op at 11 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is leaving us a little limp. Maybe we’re nitpicking, but when renovating an apartment in this price range (asking price is $1,175,000), why not spring for some nicer doors? These look a little cheap to us and only underline the suburban “new traditional” vibe that seems like a waste in a place where a more characterful renovation would likely be appreciated and rewarded by buyers. Did we just get up on the wrong side of bed or do others have a similar reaction?
11 Monroe Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I love it.
doors come and doors go but Monroe Place is
a keeper.
All that drywall-horrendous. The drywall and excessive recessed lighting (meant to counter the darkness of that unit) kill it.
Funny, 1:37, funny. I’m beyond fuming. I’m into a full-throttled psychotic state at this point. What are you people harping about now? How can you focus on anything when they have those doors in that apartment. It’s a big city and a lot is going on. But you can’t seriously tell me that life-as-normal can proceed without something being done about those doors. There’s a madness out there, a creeping nuttiness that’s seeped into everyone’s brain. Wake Up! Will you? Get some sense into you. Don’t focus on me, focus on those doors. Bring me some results on those doors. I need results.
Wanna fumm, 1:10/1:19?
Mr. B,
Once again,this isn’t as bad as you make it out to be. The price is about the location. Yes the doors should be nicer, but really!
don’t worry, we’re perfectly aware that harping on the doors is an emminently mockable position to take…doesn’t mean we’re wrong though.
I know exactly what he means about the doors. They are those cheap panel doors they sell at HD. They replaced the ubiquitous brown hollow doors that were used everywhere (on new construction) up until a few years ago. And the floors are ugly. From having my home renovated by professionals you can see it doesn’t take much to – and not a lot of money to make a renovation look much better. If people are foolish enough to settle for this, let them. They are overpaying for inferior materials.
1:19, you’re joking, no?