Almost Half of OPP Buyers Are From Brooklyn
A day after the Wall Street Journal provided a sales update on the Richard Meier-designed On Prospect Park, the paper follows up with an analysis of who’s actually living there. Surprisingly: Brooklynites! “Many of the harshest critics of the condominium designed by Richard Meier at Grand Army Plaza have been residents of brownstone Brooklyn… So…
A day after the Wall Street Journal provided a sales update on the Richard Meier-designed On Prospect Park, the paper follows up with an analysis of who’s actually living there. Surprisingly: Brooklynites! “Many of the harshest critics of the condominium designed by Richard Meier at Grand Army Plaza have been residents of brownstone Brooklyn… So it’s somewhat surprising to discover that about one third of the condo buyers at On Prospect Park actually hail from Park Slope and Prospect Heights,” says The Journal. Out of 52 deeds record to date, 23 are from Brooklyn, 14 from Manhattan, and a few from out of state and the broader metro area.
Who Lives in Richard Meyers Brooklyn Condo? Brooklynites. [WSJ]
I live in PH, in a brownstone, and was thinking that if I had an apartment in that building I would have to buy all new furniture because my traditional things wouldn’t look right. I guess that doesn’t stop some people.
Why is this surprising at all? In addition to the already-stated point that not all brownstone-Brooklyn folks have the same opinions – my question is, who would move to Brooklyn for this? It’s a nice building, I guess, if you like the style, but it hardly seems sufficiently unique to lure people from Manhattan. If you wanted to live at GAP, you’d live here already; if not, you’re likely not moving here because they put up a big glass thing.
I wonder if they broke it down by when people bought what the results would show. I would guess that the people buying when it was $1200/sf were from Manhattan while the people buying at $900/sf were from BK. I think the plan was to sell this place to people in Manhattan at slightly below Manhattan prices, but that they wound up selling it at high end Brooklyn prices.
I guess it is a bit creepy, but I have also used those services off and on for 15 years, so I am somewhat numb to it now.
“And I’ll say again, creepy how you can learn buyer’s info like that!”
It’s called public information. If you know where to look, and how, you can find a lot on just about any NYC homeowner. It’s really not too difficult.
RE: ‘creepy”, see this recent item about Blockshopper on the “Q at Parkside” blog:
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-up-with-this-creepy-blockshopper.html
zero surprise here willie-b is much higher out of BK folks
this has been known for a while
surprise, surprise….. all those bstone years with low light, not on to floor to ceiling windows this is typical of the highed end product and is zero surprise
I didn’t think much of the place until I noticed how the bulk of the homes are quite private as they face away from the traffic circle. If I struck it rich, I’d buy here.
And I’ll say again, creepy how you can learn buyer’s info like that! Does anyone else find that discomforting?