Set Speed Condo Report: 364 Myrtle Avenue
Today’s new condo reports focuses on a development that has been profiled on Brownstoner before. Located on a busy commercial stretch of Myrtle Avenue between Clermont and Adelphi, lies this unique 4 story building. Featuring angled windows to take advantage of light and outdoor spaces, this new construction attempts to set itself apart from the…
Today’s new condo reports focuses on a development that has been profiled on Brownstoner before. Located on a busy commercial stretch of Myrtle Avenue between Clermont and Adelphi, lies this unique 4 story building. Featuring angled windows to take advantage of light and outdoor spaces, this new construction attempts to set itself apart from the others.
The site consists of one commercial condo and three large floor-thru duplex condominium units. The ground floor commercial unit measures in at just under 2000 square feet for $994K, while the other three units are 1533-1688 square feet and cost $877K, $890K and $919K. The residential units have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Maintenance is about $260 a month.
Units feature 17 foot high ceilings, large gourmet kitchens with stainless steel appliances, en-suite bathrooms, spacious closets and laundry hook-ups. This condo is located close to many amenities, like supermarkets, restaurants, bars and hardware stores. But as last week’s two shootings attest, the area still contains some rough spots. An open house is scheduled March 26 from 12:30 to 3:30pm.
364 Myrtle Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP
New Building on Myrtle [Brownstoner]
Every Thursday, ltjbukem, whose own blog Set Speed scrutinizes the progress and quality of new developments in the area we know as Brownstone Brooklyn, pens a guest post about goings-on in the condo market with an emphasis on new projects.
Anon 4:56. You are missing the point. People on various sides of this discussion share in the criticism of the projects. Hell, the people who live in the projects have criticism of the projects. What you mean to say is that not one poster who has called for the eviction of poor people from now-prime Fort Greene territory has mentioned the race of the proposed evictees or claimed that the method of ouster should be murder. They don’t have to. Codespeak is in ample play in these parts. It’s used by folk who identify with the sentiments of the trolls but who don’t want to appear as being too provocative. (That wouldn’t be a polite expression of racism or elitism, now would it?) But even coded commentary can still leak a racist or elitist worldview, and even when that is not the conscious intent of the post. Don’t blame the rest of us for seeing those leaks.
Fantastic post, CrownHeightsProud,as usual. Hats off also to Oh Lord! and Big D for bringing some factual content into this discussion.
So why are you SO okay with hard working stroller set being priced out of their neighborhood (BH or PS) but are up in arms with the idea that not hard working (that was my premise) poor people might face the same prospect.
I totally agree with CrownHeightsProud, I couldn’t have said it better myself. as far as anon 4:49 comment, these ppl were living there when no one else wanted to so in that sense YES they deserve to live there more than anyone else. do you suggest we just package them all up and ship them off to North Dakota? I’ve got an education, I work hard and I totally disagree that I should be able to swoop in off my perch and kick these people out of their neighborhood because my paycheck has more zeros on it. its okay for you to say push all the poor people to one undesirable part of brooklyn or the earth for that matter yet if someone said lets stuff all the white stroller pushing gentrifiers like Brownstoner and his clan in one area, that wouldn’t be okay because only people with money are entitled to choice or anything good? let all the colored folks have the crap you don’t want but then you get priced out of BH or Carroll Gardens or Park Slope and suddenly Ft Greene and Clinton Hill is starting to look more desirable. mr/ms moneybags don’t have enough money to stay amongst the desired and suddenly it becomes okay to kick the people who have less. give me a break how far do you want to push these people away? they’ll always be poor people get over yourselves. I LOVE the fact that Ft Greene projects are right near those million dollar homes those people deserve to be there because they were the ones sticking it out when there were shootings so let them have the views that you didn’t give two cents about just a few years ago.
04:48 PM, you would only understand if you were:
a) born into poverty
b) permitted yourself the freedom to ‘walk in the shoes’ of the poor and disenfranchised.
Leave the poor people alone. The majority of them, like the majority of readers on this post, don’t mean anyone any harm.
Stop focusing on the few bad apples that create ‘blight’, the same way that a few pieces of litter/trash strewn about changes your impression of a neighborhood (or on this blog for that matter).
BTW, CrownHeightsProud, I think you’re sooooooo coool!!
I grew up in the Rupert-Yorkville towers on the upper east side. They are now condos. They used to be rent-stabilized (mitchell-lama). There was a lot of mix in the income level, everything from borderline homeless, to mentally handicapped people with live-in nurses, to very very old people with live in nurses (lots of live in nurses, believe me), to low income families, to middle income immigrants, to savvy/frugal rich people with gigantic summer houses in the hamptons and nannies.
Now it’s a condo conversion, complete with fake wood panelling, gold crap on the columns, a canvas canopy, and a “service entrance” (converted from what once was simply a second entrance). But other than the atrocious and tasteless change in the lobby, I haven’t seen that much difference in people living there. All my old neighbors are still there (my parents live there,so I visit). A lot of those low-middle income people were given a chance to buy in below market; many of them now have kids who go to good colleges and support themselves.
This program was excellent in how it created a doorway for many people who otherwise, struggling with rent or an oppressive prison-like, gov’t subsidised housing project, would never have had. I really think that building, ugly as it has always seemed to me, changed a lot of people’s lives for the better precisely because of its mixed income program.
anon 4:47. paranoid much? Brownstoner didn’t even write the piece and the piece was about condos on myrtle. good grief. I always wonder if the people who accuse b’stoner of anon posts are the ones who are doing it – would love to see his list of IP addresses right about now…
Agree anon 4:48. The rich are entitled to whatever they can buy and the poor are entitled well because their poor. There are a lot of hard working people at all levels of income that pay for their own housing.
And what’s with throwing around all the race, fried chicken, genocide, etc comments by all those who have posted sympatheticly of the projects. Not one poster in criticism of the projects said anything about race or killing people.
I would be overjoyed if the ft greene housing projects:
a) got a make over
b) were converted to coops or condos.
Poor people deserve a piece of the pie also. I would be elated if they all got to purchase their apartments for $5k and then turned around and sold them 2 years later for $500K. Many of you readers have seen your home equity shoot up in value over the last 5 years. Why shouldn’t these poor folks also get a part of the action. I think it would help to eradicate a lot of the crime associated with that area.
Well said, CHP.