Condos of the Day: 152 Beard Street
Man, the new stuff going up in Red Hook these days is such a downer. Let’s hope the neighborhood doesn’t ruin itself before the powers that be make up their mind about its future. This fugly new six-unit condo at 152 Beard Street is such a downer. While it wouldn’t be an excuse, the building’s…
Man, the new stuff going up in Red Hook these days is such a downer. Let’s hope the neighborhood doesn’t ruin itself before the powers that be make up their mind about its future. This fugly new six-unit condo at 152 Beard Street is such a downer. While it wouldn’t be an excuse, the building’s existence would be a little easier to understand if it were priced like it looks it’s built—cheap. (Just look at those windows. Ouch!) But the $589,000 asking price for a modest two-bedroom just leaves us scratching our head and wondering which poor sucker’s gonna fall for this.
152 Beard Street [Awaye Realty] GMAP P*Shark
Just so you know, ugly or otherwise, 152 Beard IS spacious and attractive on the inside, and the decks are not shared, but private. There is also a common roof deck.
as for the pricing, if you look at the Awaye Realty website, there is only one unit left, and it seems to have cleverly dropped from 639K to 569K… I don’t know, but i think that proximity to the city and Statue of Liberty/Downtown/River views are worth something.
My parents just bought (albeit huge)a 2-bedroom apartment in Brighton Beach’s Oceana complex for over over $800,000… their kitchen is cheap formica, the building held together with what appears to be hot glue, and a 40-60 min commute to the City. Hardly any views.
As for banking on the future of Red Hook, I think now is the time.
Without tanking any position on the pricing or style, here is some info on the garages. They predate the residence on top and contain industrial uses. One of the garages, the left one, runs a full block north and has an entrance on Van Dyke Street. It houses the heavy equipment of the property owner’s business. The right garage looks to be a tenant, much spray painting of metal work (grills, gates, etc).
The comments here about Red Hook being an area full of crime and somewhere you can’t walk at night are just ridiculous. Never a whisper of trouble in all the time I lived nearby and went out (LATE) there, or now that I live here. And, darlings, you CAN walk to the train, quite easily.
I live in northern Bay Ridge (around 70th). I don’t know much about below 80th. But so many limestone and brownstone houses are here. A few victorian houses from the time when BR was farm land are still standing. There are a lot of green and parks. It’s peaceful. (Just not a idealistic place for hipsters.)
JEWISH
hey 1:40 have you ever been to bay ridge? while there is some crappy architecture in bay ridge i could say the same about every brooklyn community. have you ever walked on ridge , colonial or narrows. sorry if i sound defensive but so many brownstoners love to dump on bay ridge and never been there.
I watched these go up when I was in Red Hook… the garage doors were there first. It was an industrial building and they somehow or other managed to “retrofit” a residential building on the back. I had wondered how they were going to get residents into and out of the building but from the looks of the photo (?) I guess they’ve squeezed in some sort of lobby between the two work bays. One way or the other you’ve got to give them credit for sheer god-knows-what, “build it and some sucker will buy it” audacity.
Anyway, I don’t live in Red Hook anymore.
That building is dreck
I fully take a shit on that building, the people who fucking built it, and most of all, whoever buys it.
I take a shit on them now, and I will take a shit on them forever.
Fuck them in the ass.