Co-op of the Day: 8 Sidney Place, #5
This top-floor co-op at 8 Sidney Place has a nice open, light feel to it that you don’t usually see in smaller townhouse apartments. That has a lot to do lofty-layout and multiple skylights; the private roof deck is an added bonus. The asking price is $525,000 and the monthly maintenance is $615. Sound reasonable?…
This top-floor co-op at 8 Sidney Place has a nice open, light feel to it that you don’t usually see in smaller townhouse apartments. That has a lot to do lofty-layout and multiple skylights; the private roof deck is an added bonus. The asking price is $525,000 and the monthly maintenance is $615. Sound reasonable?
8 Sidney Place, #5 [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
is it me or this is the worst floor plan I have ever seen? If you have guests sleeping over in the living room, they’ll have to go through the bedroom to get to the bathroom. With some wall breaking and reconfiguring and putting up new walls, this can be made into a great apartment. I would even make a small office in the corner with a window.
CarrollGardened — you are lucky. I would love to have your contractors name, seriously. Is it possible to send it to me via this site because I haven’t had that kind of price offered to me for anything.
adorable apartment for a young start-up or middle-aged divorcee. The roof deck makes it. And Sidney Place is lovely. I can’t do the stairs because I already have a little arthritis and its the kind of thing that could get much worse with age. I’m strictly an elevator-building type but I can appreciate a space like this.
Bsquared:
75% of New Yorker’s don’t have children and 50% are single. So lots do stay single and lots don’t have children. To plan for something which may or may not be in the future really has no impact…a wedding or having a child is something planned usually years in advance…plenty of time to upgrade to a bigger apartment if need be.
I don’t understand your point really…so you think everyone needs what 1000 sf to be happy *in case* they get married or have a child…?
I’m not following. This is a gorgeous apartment for a single person, of which NYC is primarily made up of…I could even imagine a very loving couple living here.
It’s funny to me how when people get married and have kids they don’t seem to realize that not everyone else on the planet wants the same thing.
Bsquared, I happen to have a great licensed contractor, who does great work, with whom I’ve worked for years, and I doubt he’d even charge me $1,000, whether the bedroom needs 1 or 2 walls to close off that corner.
13 by 19 = 247 sf
11 by 12.5 = 137.5 sf
12 by 12.5 = 150 sf
Total is 534.5 sf not including the bathroom, closet, etc. (I believe most co-ops are also able to include a portion of the common areas and hallways towards square foot totals, but we won’t include that for this since I’ve always found that odd).
You also have a fairly sizable looking roofdeck.
…if you are single forever, or without kids forever. But if your situation changes, it gets more difficult to live in an open space that’s only 600 sq. ft, +.
“I could live in a place like this until my legs could no longer climb the stairs.”
Me too. Out to eat, drink, see friends, movies, the park, then back home to rest.
The roof deck adds a huge amount of psychological space too. It’s not the number of rooms but the number of places to be in your space that makes all the difference.
Caveat: I am not into feng shui!
CarrollGardened – with all due respect, no way could you build walls for $1,000. The co-op board would have to approve the work which means you have to hire a licensed contractor and that means while materials are inexpensive, labor is not. I’ve had it done. And it’s hard to tell from the floorplan if it’s just one simple wall and a door that is needed. It could be more.