Condos of the Day: 83 Halsey Street
This three-unit brownstone condo at 83 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant just hit the market last week. There are three units, two 725-square-footers priced at $425,000 and on 971-square-foot place priced at $550,000. It’s a beautiful building from the outside but the one interior photo is really NOT doing it for us. How do you…
This three-unit brownstone condo at 83 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant just hit the market last week. There are three units, two 725-square-footers priced at $425,000 and on 971-square-foot place priced at $550,000. It’s a beautiful building from the outside but the one interior photo is really NOT doing it for us. How do you think these will fare?
83 Halsey Street [StreetEasy] GMAP P*Shark
It was worth a shot 🙂 Trying to show some Staten Island pride. My goal on here is to add some humor to these blog threads, so people don’t go A-Wall and kill each other. There is way too much tension going on here. Enjoy life people!!!
I’ve been through all of these apartments. The basement, which has been somewhat manditorily tailored for a wheelchair user, is really blah and will never come close to what they’re asking for it. The first floor, which is the biggest, has beautiful stained glass, though i also don’t care much for what they’ve done with the kitchen/bathrooms. The second floor was my favorite, the master bedroom has huge windows that look out on the amazing building and the corner of Halsey and Nostrand, and an great iron deck. Aside from the silliness of having two small bathrooms, the gas fireplace looks chintzy and the living room is absolutely tiny. The third floor is similar to the second, but a bit bigger. The owners have gone to great lengths to restore the woodwork throughout, and it’s very nice.
Nice try, Zohan! I love Bed-Stuy. Nothing against Staten Island.
Coming to America was set in Queens, but the aprtment Eddie & Arsenio lived in was actually in Williamsburg. (Hope Street, I believe, right off of Broadway).
@6:33, Honestly, I don’t know why I’m bothering to respond, but here goes…
A) I’m talking about proximity to the projects. Some folks have brought it up here.
B) I’m talking about crime and safety as you brought up.
C) Back in the 80’s, there wasn’t much going on in Boerum Hill or Ft Greene as far as amenities. I see similarities to Bed Stuy today.
D) Wrong on educated folk and proximity to the city. Just wrong. Give it up. It’s clear that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
PropJoe, in your fervent desire to distinguish yourself from the peeps you so despise, you’ve become a spokesperson for all those who really think we are all alike.
Perhaps whilst you were in Durham, you were not aware that Fort Greene had much the same reputation as Bed Stuy has now. According to some on this board, it still does. Ft. Greene, like BS now, has always had a strong black middleclass, and these are the people who owned and preserved blocks of beautiful and now desirable brownstones from the 1960’s on up. It’s had more of a racial mix, due in part to the presence of Pratt and St. Joseph’s college, but many parallels can be made to its gentrification, and that of Clinton Hill, and some of the changes coming to Bed Stuy and Crown Heights now. You are now enjoying living in an urban muticultural neighborhood, not because the rich white folks “saved” it, but because all kinds of people built upon the stable predominantly black neighborhood that was there, including other wealthy black folks.
As has been said countless times, Bed Stuy is huge. One drive through can’t begin to show anyone the variety of living experiences here, from the worst to the best. You do the neighborhood a disservice by judging it by a couple of movies. You also do the people here a vast disservice by painting us all as thugs, layabouts, and Ebonics spouting ignoramuses. Methinks you have more than a few self loathing issues here. If you want to be judged as an individual on your merits, do the rest of us a favor, and grant us the same.
Zohan – Since your from Staten Island and can hopefully add some valuable insight.
What do you think about these new houses that are being built http://www.opal-ridge.com/thumbgallery.asp?propertyid=4&proppageid=41
And what do you think about the area?
I went to an open house last week.
PropJoe…it was “Coming to America” and that was in Queens
And with you there Ft Greene ain’t all “educated folk” neither!!!!
I’m just going by the floorplan, they carved out a second bathroom with a shower out of the living room… looks like they shaved four or five feet off of it. Other than that, I sort of like this apartment… you’d also probably want to open the kitchen to the living room, but that doesn’t look hard either.
But, like I said, I think adding more bathrooms in a small space is a bad idea.