Horror Show Friday
From Bed Stuy (left) to PLG (middle) to Bushwick (right), the building boom’s bottom-of-the-barrel are looking like particularly tough sells now. Who’s going to buy one of these places now? Hard to imagine. $549000 2 fm, Short Sale [Craigslist] $729000 / 7br Parkside Ave [Craigslist] $729000 / 8br PRIME Bushwick [Craigslist]
From Bed Stuy (left) to PLG (middle) to Bushwick (right), the building boom’s bottom-of-the-barrel are looking like particularly tough sells now. Who’s going to buy one of these places now? Hard to imagine.
$549000 2 fm, Short Sale [Craigslist]
$729000 / 7br Parkside Ave [Craigslist]
$729000 / 8br PRIME Bushwick [Craigslist]
Montrose, you’re still sounding reasonable and I’m getting so wound up right now over this.
Tell me Benson, how much??
I’ll keep asking till you tell me (Ode to cobblehiller)
$150 sq ft.??
There’s no way it’s more than that, and if that’s the case, these developers need to GET OUT of the constuction business.
These will make good flips at bottom market prices. They’re worth something and comps will, no doubt, undershoot below that worth.
Biff, in an attempt to lighten the mood, do you have to wear those white helmets in the Death Star, or are you allowed the more comfortable Soviet bloc style cloth caps? Darth Vader or Peter Cushing? Aesthetics are important, as we have been discussing.
Thanks for the recap BRG, but things are getting heated in here, and I don’t mean in a necessarily good way. I’ll take this to your QOTD thread.
BRG;
Very well-reasoned post! You can aim for the QOTD – I’ll aim for a reasoned debate.
If you can build this for only $125/square foot, then you should go into the contracting business.
Benson, I’ve been around, myself, and yes, crap is built everywhere, especially in working class suburbs, and I will be the first to say that public housing in Europe is for the most part, no better, and in some cases, much worse than here in the US. But Europe still has tons of active housing stock that is positively ancient, but still in use, in cities, towns and villages.
I still say that there is no reason for these aesthetic mistakes, here in NYC, in the good old USA. There are 2 arguments here – one is that new has to be unattractive to be affordable, and the other is that new (in these particular houses)means not well built. The cause of the first is lack of concern on the part of the municipality, lack of responsibility on the part of the builder, towards the communities they build in, or for the customers they build for, and basic laziness/cheapness.
These buildings may pass code, but that doesn’t mean they are well built, it just means they meet a minimum standard. This is an old argument here on Brownstoner. I will continue to insist that it is possible, I’ve seen it, to build new homes that are contextural, attractive, and affordable. Those criteria shouldn’t have to be mutually exclusive.
oh, dear god…I just read bensen’s post.
Tell me, Mr. engineer. How much does it cost to build this shit depicted here???
$125 sq. ft. if that much..and how much are they asking???…It Sure is expensive to live in a slummy house in brooklyn.
You’re better off living in the slums of Italy at least you have masterpeices by DaVinci close by
Deep breath, BRG. Just remind yourself, that you were awarded Quote of the Day, yesterday. (And today, by DIBS, until Montrose showed up)
cw….actually the Habitats For Humanity townhouses on the corner of Halsy and Throop(?) are much nicer. I’ll try and get a pic. I also once stated in a similar discussion that the low income townhouses that they are building in Philly are really quite nice architecturally.
We never made it to the promenade. We had dinner for 2 hours and then went to Chocolate Room and sat there for another 2 hours. Great atmosphere, bigger space than PS, and they’re going to have an outdoor garden. No wait, it was us and another table of 4.
BTW – the chocolate cake and the cupecakes are the same. I would get the cupcake if I were you. It’s more concentrated. I had the spicy Hot choc. which I didn’t like at all, actually hated it. Torres’ still kicks it.
Also, When I met Hubby, I was walking toward him with the biggest goofiest smile on my face, cause he was wearing his trench coat.
Also, in conversation last night, I brought up (to list a few things)
-Gone with the Wind, Duct Tape, Hoop Skirt, linguist and buff, that’s the closest I can get to working you in there. I’ll try again, would Biff, be an adjective or an adverb?