Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. COBBLE HILL $5,400,000 155 Warren Street GMAP (left) As covered last week, this 7,000-sf, 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house hit the market in October ’07 with an $8.75 million asking price. The price was reduced several times, ending up at $5.9 million in late September, according to StreetEasy. Entered into contract on 11/14/08; closed on…
1. COBBLE HILL $5,400,000
155 Warren Street GMAP (left)
As covered last week, this 7,000-sf, 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house hit the market in October ’07 with an $8.75 million asking price. The price was reduced several times, ending up at $5.9 million in late September, according to StreetEasy. Entered into contract on 11/14/08; closed on 12/16/08; deed recorded on 1/13/09.
2. HOMECREST $3,015,000
1840 East 8th Street GMAP (right)
3,330-sf, detached 1-family house, according to Property Shark. Entered into contract on 12/28/07; closed on 12/30/08; deed recorded on 1/13/09.
3. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $1,945,000
One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Unit 940 GMAP
1,709-sf, 3-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath unit. Entered into contract on 3/24/08; closed on 12/3/08; deed recorded on 1/15/09.
4. GRAVESEND $1,800,000
1963 East 2nd Street GMAP
2,686-sf, brick two-family house, according to StreetEasy. Entered into contract on 10/31/06; closed on 1/7/09; deed recorded on 1/16/09.
5. MANHATTAN BEACH $1,500,000
215 West End Avenue GMAP
1,705-sf, 1-family house, according to Property Shark. Entered into contract on 11/1/08; closed on 12/18/08; deed recorded on 1/16/09.
Photos from Property Shark.
I think both of you made some excellent points in the last two posts.
dude you really need to ask your doctor to reduce your Prozac milligrams.
*rob*
“sometimes i think nyc is the lamest place on earth. do people in other cities really get all bent out of shape about different neighborhoods than we do?!?”
I don’t think so. That’s what makes NYC so special. People here get excited about stuff like no other city in the country. That’s the “energy” people talk about. The constant buzz of curiousity, change and excitement. Real or perceived.
In this case, it’s excitement over neighborhoods, over architecture, over capitalism, over creativity…over a hundred different things big and small. Everything is at hyper speed, but the incredible amount of interaction with other human beings we experience here creates many opportunities to “get bent out of shape” as it were.
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i disagree about the bedroom community thing for my part of brooklyn at least – ie williamsburg to bushwick. the artists and musicians and assorted related creative business community is pretty entrenched here. there is not a better version lurking in manhattan. in my world, no one wants to go elsewhere. there is no better place.
manhattan is becoming taboo for a certain type of creative person as it has too many chain stores, too many tourists, too many banks and too many frat boys and wall streeters and wasps and japs and lawyers and etc…
soho is all of the aforementioned, tribeca is full of 50 somethings and the east village and lower east side, well, go there on a saturday night and see if you want to live there. it’s the home of the wanna-be’s.
there is ALL kinds of truth to that and ALL kinds of untruth to that.
YES the les and ev are horrible HORRIBLE places on weekend nights. i lived there from 2001-2005 and i couldnt even walk my dog anymore on a friday or saturday night. it was fun tho cuz id invite friends over and we’d go on my roof and throw blood balloons at all the sex in the city and frat boys who invaded ludlow street like it was mardigras night. in case you want to know what a blood balloon is, it’s NOT real blood, it’s just a water balloon with ink in it to burst and ruin people clothes. terrible HORRIBLE I KNOW! oh well.
however, to claim williamsburg and bushwick is not full of wannabes is beyond laughable. both of those neighborhoods ARE the laughing stock of nyc. do you seriously think yuppie freelancers with babies and hipster (hate that word btw but whatever it fits) transplants from springfield anytown USA just after college ARENT posers? b*tch please.
the real art and creative center of nyc is Jartfeld. yeah i made that neighborhood name up. you dont know where it is and we cannot tell you. it’s a secret. youll just ruin it and make us all bitter again. derf.
sometimes i think nyc is the lamest place on earth. do people in other cities really get all bent out of shape about different neighborhoods than we do?!?
*rob*
2008 will be remembered as the last hurrah for NYC real estate for a long, long time.
wine lover is right.
Many a creative business has given up and left Manhattan. You will continue to see more and more businesses as well as people living AND working in Brooklyn.
It pains me to say that Manhattan is left to the super rich, the wannabees, and the tourists.
Ohh and those with rent regulated apartments that can’t move.
In the next 25 years just watch as the entire NYC area including Queens, Gold Coast Jersey, Brooklyn fill in.
The Syrians have a bubble of their own. A sub-bubble. A subble.
***Bid half off peak comps***
i disagree about the bedroom community thing for my part of brooklyn at least – ie williamsburg to bushwick. the artists and musicians and assorted related creative business community is pretty entrenched here. there is not a better version lurking in manhattan. in my world, no one wants to go elsewhere. there is no better place.
manhattan is becoming taboo for a certain type of creative person as it has too many chain stores, too many tourists, too many banks and too many frat boys and wall streeters and wasps and japs and lawyers and etc…
soho is all of the aforementioned, tribeca is full of 50 somethings and the east village and lower east side, well, go there on a saturday night and see if you want to live there. it’s the home of the wanna-be’s.
meanwhile, dumbo has been getting a creative commercial rental business that is seriously impressive, and i think that creative commercial renters will continue to grow in brooklyn.
Oh Rob.