Co-op of the Day: 806 Carroll Street
Here’s a place we can probably all agree to drool over. The parlor-level floor-through co-op at 806 Carroll Street in Park Slope has twelve windows on three sides and some of the sweetest wood moldings and built-ins we’ve seen in a long time. (The location ain’t too shabby either.) The maintenance is only $850, quite…
Here’s a place we can probably all agree to drool over. The parlor-level floor-through co-op at 806 Carroll Street in Park Slope has twelve windows on three sides and some of the sweetest wood moldings and built-ins we’ve seen in a long time. (The location ain’t too shabby either.) The maintenance is only $850, quite low for what we estimate is about a 1,200-square-foot apartment. The asking price isn’t quite as low however: $1,195,000. Think they’ll get their price?
806 Carroll Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
“you have to go up one floor or four. Its a pain in the ass.”
What about a 10 million dollar duplex? You still have to go up a flight of stairs. Does that suck too? Or how about the 80% of u.s. 2 story colonials where one must walk up stairs? Are you really that Ignorant??
every person i know who graduated from yale and moved to nyc at the age of 22 or 23 (i could name 15 people off the top of my head) started out making 150K.
my friend’s first job at deloitte landed her a 250K salary her first year. another was making 250K at a hedge fund and then got a 400K bonus his first year.
the former now owns a 2 bedroom apt. on jane street and is not even 30.
it happens more often than you think.
i’ve since gone on to grad school and still make under 200K though because i’m in the arts.
and i love park slope. imagine that?
A walk-up is a walk-up wheher you have to go up one floor or four. Its a pain in the ass.
Although it is convenient to prevent elderly or disabled relatives from visiting.
3:03 – I agree – who are these assholes who think making 150k right out of college is no big deal. I can assure you that to most Americans, that would be considered a VERY big deal. And most will never come close to that in their lifetimes.
Putting in that second tiny bedroom would ruin the beauty of the front room. The price on this one-bedroom walk up seems exorbitant. On the other hand, it is in perfect, move-in condition and is in a good location.
I would advise someone interested in this to cool off a bit and rent for awhile. These prices are simple unsustainable. For this price one-bedroom, I would want at least an elevator and a doorman.
1:00 (2), you might have made 150K right out of college, but I’m willing to bet that you are one in about 500,000 college graduates. No-one really makes that kind of money right out unless they are doing something highly extraordinary or are working for themselves. Now if you are talking about Grad school that is a different story.
I wonder if this building ever had a stoop. If it did, they did a pretty wonderful job recreating the window in the “office” off to the side of the LR.
i like your style, 2:46.
It IS a one-bedroom, the floor-plan maker’s suggestion that you could partition off the living room notwithstanding. (And you couldn’t do it without coop approval anyway.)
Refrigerator thing is a bit awkward, I agree. But many of the single-family brownstones that have been cut up into apartments have some awkwardness. It seems that the larger brownstones, as you get closer to the park, with the most beautiful original built-ins, are the ones that have the most awkward layouts – as people pay attention to keeping the charm of the original and not practical layouts (not saying they shouldn’t do that – I like large brownstone charm – but it is just a fact about the layouts.)
The biggest awkwardness here is that the one full bathroom is accessed only from the bedroom. You want to have houseguests not not have to traipse through your bedroom to shower or bathe. (Kids, we know, already are always traipsing through your bedroom. But remember, this is only a one-bedroom anyway.)
I lived on this block of Carroll – it is a really great location. I also looked at 2 other apartments in this building when I was looking to buy. They were beautiful, but the awkward layouts stopped me.
Then (mid-90’s), the apartments in this building were priced like others of their size – so this would have been priced like a really nice large one-bedroom with a dining room – as it should be now. This one isn’t priced that way, and so is overpriced, however nice it is.
And thanks to whoever pointed out that only a small percentage fits the demographic that everyone thinks lives in the slope – and in NY. Singles and childless couples are not only 20-somethings waiting to marry and start procreating (and even some who originally want that never do it), as many who write on this board seem to believe. Repeat after me: Everybody is not just like you.