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
2:39 post:
That rental is yet another Scarano building. No C of O, 4 outstanding DOB violations. Actually, even if it were habitable, $2,400 pm in that neck of the woods (bags of vehicular traffic, streams of folks on their way from the Smith & 9th subway to Red Hook, and the Gowanus Expressway within auditory and olifactory range) is nuts.
Awaye takes on some of the oddest listings.
They’ve been trying to rent this building on W 9th St for months with no takers, even with no fee and a free months rent
http://www.awayerealty.com/detail_rent.asp?webid=841
Okay this is definitly ugly but whats “cheap” about the windows?
It’s the condo version of a snout house.
aesthetics aside, i just don’t understand the pricing – this is still very much a transitional neighborhood, beset with crime, transportation and infrastructure issues. (i really do like the area, btw. just being honest). so i can see some highend stuff here for rich people with car services and /or kids in private schools. and i could selling really lowend stuff for the urban pioneer set, or whatever you want to call the kids in bushwick. but $589k can still buy you a decent, safe 2+ in much nicer neighborhoods that don’t require a bet on the future. head-scratcher.
haha that’s a funny comment 1:34 pm!
ANYway, this sh-t is scarylooking. Bay Ridge has this sort of crap. But Red hook? Sad sad sad.
Why did they put two industrial loading docks on the building? Are they expecting that many people to be moving in? More than likely, to accomodate the hoards moving out.
What a horror!
Basically what’s happening here is what’s happening in a lot of places in the hood: builders are using existing structures (usually some kind of industrial garage like this was) and taking the available FAR and building on top of it. The sad thing is that since this isn’t a landmarked area, you could have the freedom to do some really interesting contemporary architecture but that’s something developers looking to make a buck just aren’t interested in.
red hook has always been ugly. so these fit right in.