Co-op of the Day: 24 Montgomery Place, #2
$1,195,000 is a lot of dough for a single-floor apartment but then again this parlor floor pad at 24 Montgomery Place in Park Slope is hardly run-of-the-mill. The original details are stunning and the location is obviously first-rate so we wouldn’t write this one off as being overpriced. The only drawback is that the railroad-y…
$1,195,000 is a lot of dough for a single-floor apartment but then again this parlor floor pad at 24 Montgomery Place in Park Slope is hardly run-of-the-mill. The original details are stunning and the location is obviously first-rate so we wouldn’t write this one off as being overpriced. The only drawback is that the railroad-y configuration doesn’t lend itself very well to having a second bedroom. Thoughts?
24 Montgomery Place, #2 [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Yes, well put, brokelin.
I don’t think the finishes have darkened all that much over the years. They likely looked like this 100 years ago. Even more so, with gas light or electric light, when 25 or 40 watts was what lit a whole room. We’d find those rooms way too dim now. (On the other hand, as I learned years ago one night when the power was out, these brownstone rooms look great in candlelight – the style of them was designed for it, I think, even if built with gas or electricity. I remember thinking my place never looked as good as it did that night, with candles in every room.)
But this was a house, so the rooms had different purposes – that was no bedroom on the parlor floor, I’m sure. And that room with the bookcases, likely a library/study or dining room – definitely not a main parlor or living room. Kitchen was definitely downstairs, in the back, with light (not that the owners used it when built – the maid/cook likely did.)
While I liked the look of many apartments like this when I was looking, I decided the layout really just isn’t practical. I lived in a true railroad flat in Brooklyn once – a place built with no pretention of being anything but housing for the poorer of the working classes. Fine when what you want is cheap; not fine when it isn’t cheap.
I’m not crazy about rooms like these unless they open up to a nice stairhall in order to give you a sense of flow and space. All by themselves they are rather long and narrow. You can do so much better for this kind of money in almost any NYC neighborhood.
You know how ridiculous the price is? If they had wanted to be the most expensive 1 bedroom coop in all of Park Slope, they could have priced this at $755,000.
In between the hideous layout, the skylight in the bedroom (!), and the narrow, rail-roady nature of the apartment, it’s hard to tell what made the broker consider this listing worthy of a sale price 50% above the rest.
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I think it’s ugly.
Yes, dave, with some of their very finest insults.
I think with the right furniture this place would be really fantastic.
I agree that this is too expensive for a large one-bedroom apartment with one bathroom and no outdoor space.