Brooklyn Gold Joins the Downtown Rental Party
Avalon Fort Greene, 80 Dekalb, the Brooklyner, and now Brooklyn Gold: There’s definitely no shortage of new rentals available in Downtown Brooklyn at the moment! The leasing office for Brooklyn Gold, aka 257 and 277 Gold Street, opened a few weeks ago. The 510-unit development’s website says asking rents are starting at $1,401 for studios…
Avalon Fort Greene, 80 Dekalb, the Brooklyner, and now Brooklyn Gold: There’s definitely no shortage of new rentals available in Downtown Brooklyn at the moment! The leasing office for Brooklyn Gold, aka 257 and 277 Gold Street, opened a few weeks ago. The 510-unit development’s website says asking rents are starting at $1,401 for studios and $1,532 for 1-bedrooms (that’s “net,” so the prices probably take into account concessions like a couple months’ free rent). The first building that’s leasing is 277 Gold Street, and at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable on Tuesday one of its developers said it’s probably going to take another four or five months for some of the buildings’ amenities—which include an indoor swimming pool—to be finished. 277 Gold has 133 units and its big brother, 257, has 377.
Development Watch: 277 Gold Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 277 Gold Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 235 Gold Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 277 Gold Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 235 and 277 Gold Street [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 277 Gold All Topped Out [Brownstoner]
Development Watch: 277 Gold Street [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark
Development Watch: 235/277 Gold Street [Brownstoner] DOB
Just went to see the building, location is not ideal but the apartments are amazing, best of whats new in the area. loved the i-pod . I’m thinking of putting in an application, I think the area will be hot soon.
Amd they are usually shared by 2, so $1500/mo. each. Long live pressurized walls!
The same old awful layouts. Ugh, can they come up with something better than the 2 room thing???
I am so sick of the freaking kitchen cabinets in with the living room. For a one bedroom it looks like just 2 measley rooms to me.
Whatever happened to 3 room apartments with a regular size kitchen, a bedroom, a living room duh !!!
Do the architects ever think about furniture placement with all their plans?
apparantly not !
Here’s my obligatory “that’s an incredibly crappy location with traffic congestion 24/7 and convenient to nothing besides McDonald’s” post.
babs the studios in that building on Houston start at 3000 a month!
Actually this will be more along the model of the Normandie (a/k/a Dormandie) Court on the UES — three recent grad sharing a 1 BR by converting the LR into two BRs. And the atmosphere is very college dorm, just like that building on Houston and the Bowery where the Whole Foods is — doors left open, marijuana smoke wafting through the halls, random keg parties. Not for adults.
i agree with pete. if you can afford $1.8 to $2k for a 1 bedroom you can afford murray hill, yorkville, financial district, hell’s kitchen, and many other areas in manhattan. they won’t be luxury buildings (except in the case of the financial district) but they will be affordable for the manhattan crowd. downtown brooklyn’s amenities aren’t even as good as those of the financial district so nearby amenities are not the draw.
these buildings are for people who want to live in renovated apartments but don’t want to live in jersey city or queens, and they’re for people who want to live in brooklyn but can’t afford a renovated apartment in a prime brooklyn neighborhood. i don’t think they’re largely for the manhattan people.
that’s my take, anyway.
I disagree “boerumite”, I believe the competition to rent a luxury building is more crowded then to own. Besides I just read that Be has some new German owners looking to start selling again in ’10.
> These are for people straight out of college who can’t afford Manhattan.
A huge and ever-replenishing market segment.