Condo of the Day: 505 Court Street
We’ve always been a little surprised at what a tough time 505 Court Street in Carroll Gardens has had in the market. Despite being the highest-profile loft conversion in a hot neighborhood, the building had a tough time moving units when it went condo back in 2005; a year later, in the summer of 2006,…
We’ve always been a little surprised at what a tough time 505 Court Street in Carroll Gardens has had in the market. Despite being the highest-profile loft conversion in a hot neighborhood, the building had a tough time moving units when it went condo back in 2005; a year later, in the summer of 2006, the building zigged to rentals before zagging back to condos that fall. Streeteasy shows ten units currently for sale, including this top-floor duplex asking $679,000, down from $715,000. Have some of the problems that initially caused problems been dealt with? Any current residents care to chime in about their experience in the building?
505 Court Street [Corcoranl] GMAP P*Shark
I’ve lived in 505 since 2006. I’m a little surprised by the negative comments because nowhere is perfect. I’m sitting in my boyfriend’s apartment on the Lower East Side and his neighbor above seems to walk across the floor wearing combat boots and dragging furniture all the time. His neighbor below is a professional DJ who “practices” every day. The public areas of the building are gross given the rent he pays. I left my rental in Nolita because of the building’s total disregard for the tenants, the noise from Houston Street, the building renovation that began two weeks after I moved in and the crowds in the neighborhood. I lived in a lovely apartment building on 2nd and 21st where the street noise, even on the 15th floor, was insane. I live on the 9th floor of 505 facing northwest and the noise is not bad. Yes, of course, you hear the train, but I actually like that noise, maybe because I grew up in New York. I never hear the BQE. The windows are soundproof when shut. Yes, it gets dusty if you keep your windows open, but that happens in Manhattan too.
The stretch of Court Street outside is lovely. I don’t know what happierman is talking about regarding the walk to the Smith/9th Street station. You exit via the courtyard and it’s a 30-second walk. What everyone should be complaining about is the horrible state of the subway station. That’s the real disgrace of the neighborhood.
wow, people still discussing this building. well, obviously people are still moving in as I have a lot of neighbors now….and there’s a full condo board, which when we moved in there was none. people who are interested in moving in, you should try to chat with people that actually live in the building and get their opinions and hear their experiences. we got a new Super this week! I’m pleased about that as the one we had wasn’t bad….he was just kind of a dick.
I loved our apt. we had. The biggest problem for the building is the location. One thing I did notice when we were still living there is that they were adding walls to apts that were suppose to be studios and calling them one bedrooms. Also the building changed owners a few times while we were there. If it weren’t for the location we might have stayed.
Its interesting and telling to read comments by people LIVING in the building vs all the hatred and anger from some others regarding 505 court. Anyone reading these comments needs to factor in the recent history of the building in which 100+ renters were mis-treated and essentially thrown out (really they got offers to buy at high cost) when the building went condo.
Not all the haters who post about this building are people who were displaced but I know 100% for sure that there are those who trash the building as much as possible as some sort of bitter revenge for being displaced.
Just read all the posts about this building and see how much anger there is… Thats why. Thats not to say the building doesn’t have flaws – it does such as proximity to the BQE and F train. I love the building and think its great and that its stock is rising – but thats just me.
Cannot believe some people think these interiors are lovely. I looked at them in the spring and the interiors were SO shoddy and the lay out just horrible. Just really really shitty construction and design by people who have no idea what they are doing. Actually the quality combined with the prices made me so disgusted I was tempted to yell at the brokers! Location is also pretty bad, but I think convenient enough to CG, in PS 58 school district, that it wouldn’t matter if they had done a nice job. Happy to see the prices are plummeting.
?? i was just commenting. i wasn’t addressing you personally.
does this greener pasture of which you speak have padded walls?
Whenwilltend,
As I said in my previous post. It’s just not for us. We didn’t like being that close to the BQE. We chose somewhere greener for our kids.
we conducted our house search based on school zones, and bought here because we got what we consider to be a good deal for a 3-bedroom 2-bath zoned for ps 58. at the time we were looking, a 2-bedroom, 1-bath, half the size and on a 3rd floor walk up in cobble hill cost 50k more than our apt.
the layout is great for kids and, having lived in brownstones, i LOVE the convenience of an elevator so i don’t have to freak out if my kids fall asleep in the stroller. i used to either have to hang out, or wake them up. now i just wheel them into the elevator, straight up to the apt, and have a break while they snooze.
there’s a lot of families/kids in the building, and they all play together in the courtyard in nice weather, or when it snows. my daughter has classmates in the building, and kids she takes ballet with. the bus across the street on court takes you door to door to the 9th street playground in prospect park.
the light is gorgeous, actually, and we have a delightful view of trees and brownstones across the way on huntington street. it’s a pleasure to wake up in the morning and sit in our living room. it has a really happy feel to it.
listen, it’s NOT cobble hill over here, but it’s not far, and it’s pleasant to walk up court street. in a few years the gowanus is going to be cleaned up and they’re planning a beautiful park right across the street. they’ve already started working on it. more and more cool stuff is working it’s way down to this end.
like i said, if you can afford comperable space in cobble hill, go for it. but this suited
naomi10
I have lived here for more then a year and the staff are excellent (obviously not perfect). The door men and woman are exemplary and the super and his crew are off the hook with fast response times and out of their way service.
There are definitely kooks in the building and it sure is possible that something went wrong at the front desk and with the maintance staff as well.
Just my first hand experience.