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
The BH place is definitely the keeper here. No question about it.
Eastern Parkway… hands down… Brooklyn Heights is 1st floor. Who wants to live on the first floor? It’s either dark or you have to live with all that foot traffic outside your window. Eastern Parkway is on the 4th floor. And Prospect Heights is a much cooler neighborhood. Presuming only a young, single person is going to buy a studio, they would definitely rather be in PH. The Eastern Parkway apartment looks like it was recently renovated. Can’t tell about the Orange Street one. No kitchen photo. That’s usually a dead giveaway. It also looks like there’s room in the foyer area for a small kitchen table before heading to the sunk in living room in the Eastern Parkway apartment. Come on folks, details!
Eastern Parkway… hands down… Brooklyn Heights is 1st floor. Who wants to live on the first floor? It’s either dark or you have to live with all that foot traffic outside your window. Eastern Parkway is on the 4th floor. And Prospect Heights is a much cooler neighborhood. Presuming only a young, single person is going to buy a studio, they would definitely rather be in PH. The Eastern Parkway apartment looks like it was recently renovated. Can’t tell about the Orange Street one. No kitchen photo. That’s usually a dead giveaway. It also looks like there’s room in the foyer area for a small kitchen table before heading to the sunk in living room in the Eastern Parkway apartment. Come on folks, details!
How can you live “in” Eastern Parkway?
Most idiotic comment of the day award goes to 3:14.
Galapagos is going to be about a 7 minute walk from the BH place.
But I agree, if you’re 19 or 20, you’d rather be in PH. Well, PH would be you’re 4th or 5th choice, but better than BH
I live in Eastern Parkway…and wish I didn’t.
The Orange Street building is really ugly from the outside.
And I believe that because of the limited amenities in BH along with the fact that the neighborhood has little room for growth in terms of the “hip” factor means that price appreciation is limited.
The PH place is surrounded by cool neighborhoods. Clinton Hill, Ft. Greene and the Brooklyn Flea to the north and west, Park Slope to the south, the new beer garden, Franklin Park (which I hear is filled with a super hot crowd) etc.
PH is where it’s at.
And Heather, your comment is kinda stupid because not many people live in studios for a very long time. Studios attract young people, by and large.
“BH has better grocery stores than PH by a long shot”
The Gristedes burned down in case you missed it.
Now one has to walk all the way to Montague.