Co-op of the Day: 205 Warren Street, #2A
We love the former Catholic school building at 205 Warren Street that this 1,300-square-foot loft apartment’s in. Built in 1887, the former St. Paul’s Parish School is now a 27-unit co-op. The second-floor apartments have 14-foot ceilings, making them ripe spaces for loft mezzanines. Two other similar apartments have sold recently, #2E for $995,000 this…
We love the former Catholic school building at 205 Warren Street that this 1,300-square-foot loft apartment’s in. Built in 1887, the former St. Paul’s Parish School is now a 27-unit co-op. The second-floor apartments have 14-foot ceilings, making them ripe spaces for loft mezzanines. Two other similar apartments have sold recently, #2E for $995,000 this past July and #2H for $990,000 back in the summer of ’06. Based on those data points, #2A looks priced on the money to sell at $995,000, unless you think the market uncertainty of recent months merits a discount. Man, those windows are to die for.
205 Warren Street [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
Former Catholic School on Warren Street [Brownstoner]
Residential Sales 6/2/06 [Brownstoner]
i would go nuts in a space that small w/ lids. i guess that’s why they’re moving. that price for that space is literally immoral.
No way is this worth roughly $1M. In Brooklyn, you can buy a decent townhouse for that type of money (albeit not in Cobble Hill). I could see paying $1M for a 1-BR in Richard Meier’s building but certainly not this.
Plus, from the looks of floor plan the bathroom is upstairs in that narrow-ceilinged loft.
Wait a second, the main space here is about 21 by 26, that is pretty darn big, the second space containing a bedroom and two baths is about 14 by 23 also big. Pus there is a big loft that can be used as a bedroom or as a home office and a second loft over the bedroom for storage.
What kinds of gigantic apartments are people used to on this blog? This is big. And the super high ceilings probably make it seem huge. You can quarrel with the lofts being included in the square footage but you cannot say this is not a family-sized apartment. That is just ridiculous. This is a lovely, somewhat quirky space, I am surprised it is being panned here.
I looked at an appartment in this building early this year and remember finding it a huge disapointment. The original renovation did appear to be done on the cheap, you couldn’t stand up in the loft, the bedrooms were very small and some of the fixtures were hanging off. I also remember the building entrance way and internal corridors to be really gloomy. On the plus side, it is a great location, I really like Cobble Hill. No doubt somebody will snap this up for near asking as there isn’t that much available in this area.
Brownstoner,
“Those windows are to die for”?…
Yeah, I would croak trying to clean/wash them!
Wait a minute, is there something wrong with my monitor or would it be impossible to simply *stand up* in the “master bedroom” because the ceiling is so low??!! Man oh man…talk about a “deal breaker”. Unless they do something about those ceilings, the asking price is not just optimistic but absurd.
Cobble Hill is tops in Brooklyn, I agree.
This church and school complex has never looked so good as it does now that it has been adaptively recycled into housing. I think it is charming.
There is another former RC church on Strong Place I think that is undergoing transformation into apartments. I think it is terrific that the lovely old churches can serve new uses in the neighborhood. Too bad it only occurs in historic districts where the buildings are protected and cannot be torn down.
This apartment is actually pretty lame – the living room is typically undersized. Big windows and high ceilings help to hide the fact that it’s small, but still not a lot of bang for the buck in my opinion – esp compared to the apartments at 321 Union. I stopped in their the other day and the lay outs are GREAT even if the exterior of the building isn’t. Whoever pre-bought those apts made a smart move.
$1 million for a one bedroom in Brooklyn. It better be f’ing nice.