Co-op of the Day: 101 Lafayette Avenue, #1K
101 Lafayette Avenue aka The Griffin is Fort Greene’s grandest prewar apartment building. Built in 1931, the 17-story has 202 co-op apartments in it. Or, make that 203. A former ground-level office space has just been converted into a 1,475-square-foot two-bedroom apartment with a private terrace. The conversion looks straight-forward: Nothing fancy but nothing offensive…
101 Lafayette Avenue aka The Griffin is Fort Greene’s grandest prewar apartment building. Built in 1931, the 17-story has 202 co-op apartments in it. Or, make that 203. A former ground-level office space has just been converted into a 1,475-square-foot two-bedroom apartment with a private terrace. The conversion looks straight-forward: Nothing fancy but nothing offensive either. If this were on a higher floor, the asking price of $825,000 would be looking pretty tasty. For a ground-floor space, though, not so sure. What do you think?
101 Lafayette Avenue, #1K [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Those single pane cast iron windows gotta mean cold nights in wintertime.
This building went through some hard times.
That was a really really sketchy block. I’m glad to see the shareholders made it work, it’s all about the people who own a stake in the community.
i think you could do some simple landscaping and make the terrace work with a chair(s) and small table. for me, that would suffice.
also, why the hate on ground floor? i had no idea. i have only ever wanted to live on the ground floor. can’t stand elevators and walking up flights of stairs is a pain in the ass.
love running out the door.
I saw a ground-floor new reno at an open house there this summer. It was far from finished but looks similar to this one. The “terrace,” as someone noted, is accessible only by climbing out the (casement) window. The 1BR I saw also claimed a terrace in the listing. When I asked the broker (same guy) about the “terrace” he said that the board would give the new owner permission to put a door in. How gracious. But you wouldn’t want to use that nasty narrow dark thing as a terrace anyway, trust me.
1:45…I agree with you.
As I mentioned in my intial post, although I did look at quite a few places in the Griffin, I ended up in PS…just a block and a half from Prospect Park. I’m so much happier here than I think I would have been at the Griffin. My place is a little smaller than the 500 sf studios I was looking at in the Griffin, but I really like living in a brownstone and I love being able to walk out my door and be on 7th avenue in 30 seconds, the park in under a minute and 5th avenue in 5-7 minutes.
Saw this at the OH last weekend. Big space with a very weird layout. They did a very slapdash “renovation” to jack the price up; not much more than a coat of paint, garish lights, and some GE stainless appliances. This place will need work to make it a sensible layout, wish they kept it raw, but wouldn’t take it on the ground floor anyways.
Could be right, 1:29. I only saw two floors and the lobby. But I did see another dismal 1-BR in a different building in Ft. Greene (two blocks away from the Griffin, above retail space), and it was also wayyy overpriced. I love Ft. Greene and spend plenty of time in the park, but we saw MUCH nicer recently renovated 1-BR’s in gorgeous buildings closer to PROSPECT Park than the Griffin is to Ft. Greene Park, right off Prospect Park West, and they were only about $50-$75K more than the crappy studio we saw in The Griffin, and cheaper than the 1-BR in Ft. Greene. It’s just hard for me to fathom the sizable price gap.
Seems overpriced to me, and I’m underwhelmed by the interior. Am I the only one who thinks that two full baths (one of which is in the middle of the living area) in a 1,400 SF apartment is overkill? I would rather see one large full bath (with two sinks and/or a showerstall & tub arrangement) OR two full baths, but one placed inside the master bedroom.
I think you must have seen an unrenovated hallway, 1:22, because they are redoing all of them and the lobby.
It’s the reason the maint was increased on most apartments last year.
Full renovation of the common areas.
I think once that is complete, the prices will reflect that because it is the nicest, highright doorman building of its kind in Ft. Greene and just a block from the park.
Although I do think this particular apartment is a bit overpriced, but it’s also HUGE at 1500 sf.