Co-ops of the Day: Head-to-Head Studio Battle
Douglas Elliman put up two new studio listings last week, one in Prospect Heights and one in Brooklyn Heights. The Prospect Heights pad, at 55 Eastern Parkway, is on the fourth floor with an asking price of $285,000 and monthly maintenance of $435; the Brooklyn Heights unit, at 54 Orange Street, is asking $319,000 with…
Douglas Elliman put up two new studio listings last week, one in Prospect Heights and one in Brooklyn Heights. The Prospect Heights pad, at 55 Eastern Parkway, is on the fourth floor with an asking price of $285,000 and monthly maintenance of $435; the Brooklyn Heights unit, at 54 Orange Street, is asking $319,000 with a maintenance of $333. Which do you think is a better deal?
55 Eastern Parkway, #4F [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
54 Orange Street, #1E [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
Aside from proximity to the park, I’ve never really understood the appeal of Eastern Parkway. Ah yes, there’s the museum you’d probably frequent what…once or twice a year (if that). No thanks.
55 Eastern Parkway is listed with Prudential Douglas Elliman.
Lots of pictures of the building, which looks attractive. (One of those neo-Georgian numbers that conferred “class” to upwardly-mobile garmentos who lived on the street during the 30s and 40s. For those new to New York, garmento is what natives used to call people in the garment industry.)
The parkway’s pretty lonely at night, though, something to think about if you’re single and coming in at all hours.
i’ve been inside the orange street place. it’s a dump. i definitely prefer the location and look of the prospect heights apartment.
Yeah, I can see how one wouldn’t want to live near or on such a beautiful part of this city and country’s history…
The world’s first parkway was conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1866. The term parkway was coined by these designers as a landscaped road built expressly for ‘pleasure-riding and driving’ or scenic access to Prospect Park (also designed by Olmsted and Vaux). To these ends, commerce was restricted. The parkway was constructed from Grand Army Plaza to Ralph Avenue (the boundary of the City of Brooklyn) between 1870 and 1874. Olmsted and Vaux intended Eastern Parkway to be the Brooklyn nucleus of an interconnected park and parkway system for the New York area. The plan was never completed but their idea of bringing the countryside into the city influenced the construction of major parks and parkways in cities throughout the United States.”
I’d never want to live on Eastern Parkway or in that general area, so this isn’t a tough choice for me.
Count me in for the Prospect Heights pad.
Honestly, Brooklyn Heights is not on my radar at all. Maybe in another 40 years.
It’s a tired tactic by Brownstoner, pitting neighborhood against neighborhood. It’s not really about the apartments.
I love this idea of this feature, but the fact that this head-to-head is even being debating here makes me think people here are just too nuts to handle it
it doesn’t look dark and it looks to be on the back, off the garden. might be nice. might not be. who can tell without looking?
My mom and MIL/FIL rent a studio on this block when they come to visit the grandbabies. The owners get $300 a night — not too bad.