House of the Day: 88 Prospect Park Southwest
The owners of 88 Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace paid $895,000 for the 1,750-square-foot townhouse in 2006 and, from the looks of it, did a pretty comprehensive renovation. Now they’re asking $1,150,000 for the place. The listing portrays the house as a good condo alternative, which isn’t a bad way to think of it,…
The owners of 88 Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace paid $895,000 for the 1,750-square-foot townhouse in 2006 and, from the looks of it, did a pretty comprehensive renovation. Now they’re asking $1,150,000 for the place. The listing portrays the house as a good condo alternative, which isn’t a bad way to think of it, given the size and finishes. It’s pretty pricey on a per square foot basis for a house in this area but for someone who wants to be right across from the park in a totally refinished space maybe it’ll do the trick.
88 Prospect Park Southwest [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
so you’re the family that lived in the basement, Broke?
how’s little brother #29, still in jail?
I think Florida real estate developers were trying to frighten you about freezing. Remember all the TV commercials to vacant bldg lots there.
In my day, we had 327 people living in a basement with a bucket and a sponge. We took the F train to school – both ways.
I don’t remember- and I’m more of a coot than Benson or Dave. Maybe that is because memory is failing.
Do remember about gloom of overpopulation (which sounds like plenty of our families were contributors).
i grew up in the 60’s and 70’s and always had central air and a garbage disposal. this isn’t some new technology that needs to get ironed out. sweaty bathrooms (do people put A/C units in bathrooms?) suck in the summer. just the worst. A/c units are the ugliest thing on the planet. why spend more than a $1000 bucks a month on a rental if you are going to live like a kid right out of college? i don’t get why anyone would put these eyesores on their property.
Those scares now seem to have mutated into somehow trying to SQUEEZE 4 people into almost 2000 sf, living without central air and riding public buses!! 🙂
MInard…not only once!!!! This was referenced in today’s Gartman letter…..
For many years, most oil was used for lighting
and lubrication, and the amounts extracted
were modest. Then in 1901, a new well
named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop,
began gushing more per day than all other US
wells combined.
Since then, America has exhausted its
hydrocarbon supplies. Repeatedly.
In 1914, the Bureau of Mines said US oil
reserves would be exhausted by 1924. In
1939, the Interior Department said the world
had 13 years worth of petroleum reserves.
Then a global war was fought and the postwar
boom was fueled, and in 1951 Interior reported
that the world had… 13 years of reserves.
In 1970, the worlds’ proven oil reserves were
an estimated 612 billion barrels. By 2006,
more than 767 billion barrels had been
pumped and proven reserves were 1.12 trillion
barrels. In 1977, Jimmy Carter predicted that
mankind “could use up all the proven reserves
of oil in the entire world by the end of the next
decade.†Since then the world has consumed
three more times more crude oil than was then
in the world’s proven reserves.
Minard;
I remember those previous “scares” too!
I am I suppose, a tad older than most posters here, except for the other old coots like Dave and Benson.
11217 may find this story hard to believe, but it is the truth: When I was in my early teens, many scientists and other serious academicians were convinced that the world’s oil reserves would be depleted in another three years (that was almost forty years ago) and that irrefutible scientific data indicated that the planet was entering another Ice Age. Most of us kids were convinced that we would likely freeze to death in our parents’ unheated houses -or possibly crushed under the weight of emergent glaciers reclaiming the fields of Long Island after their thousand year hiatus.