Rental of the Day: A Room in 830 Prospect Place
Every once in awhile we like to see what rooms in shares are asking around Brooklyn. This one is in a three-family building in Crown Heights and the kitchen and bathroom is shared. (What it doesn’t specify is how many people you’re sharing with!) While we’re totally smitten with this building, the room itself isn’t…
Every once in awhile we like to see what rooms in shares are asking around Brooklyn. This one is in a three-family building in Crown Heights and the kitchen and bathroom is shared. (What it doesn’t specify is how many people you’re sharing with!) While we’re totally smitten with this building, the room itself isn’t big and the original asking rent of $780/month was pie in the sky. Now the rent is down to $660, still on the higher side for a place between Nostrand and New York Avenue. What do you think this will go for?
830 Prospect Place [Joan Joseph-Alexander] GMAP P*Shark
“Although, we can all hope that you get tied to the radiator”
Don’t forget the torture.
“First of all, this is an apartment in one of the most interesting houses on one of the most beautiful blocks of Crown Heights North. You’d never know it from the photos.”
MM is right. This house is the bomb. It’s pon a street with several other noteworthy stand-alone houses. You’d never know from the pictures.
More than $660/month for a tiny room with a shared bath in Crown Heights?
I remember Dad grumbling in the 1950s when he paid $86/month for a family-sized floor-through in a World-War I era apartment house with parquet de Versailles floors, faux fire place, formal dining room, butler’s pantry, breakfast room and French doors and windows (with window seats!).
As an early example of the apartment type, the place was long and deep, with a hall that twisted and turned — plenty of space for him to chase his three kids around during games of hide-and-seek.
My favorite feature: the swinging door between butler’s pantry and dining room. (It had a port hole, another nifty feature.) My brother and I liked to time it so it’d smack Dad as he ran after us from hall to foyer to kitchen to dining room to living room and back again.
He caught us. But only when he decided the game was over.
If you were to multiply this room’s rental for the amount of space we had it’d come to six or seven thousand/month! Even discounted for inflation, that’d be exorbitant. And for Crown Heights? Forget it!
As usual, singles are forced to overpay for housing in this town. Even for a shoebox.
Nostalgic on Park Avenue
> how do you know im not tied to a radiator right now?
Because the universe is not that generous.
you’re tied to a desk instead
how do you know im not tied to a radiator right now?
*rob*
I see a 9 or 10 Indian chick at least once a week now I’m commuting on the 7.
“large carpeted room in a quaint vintage 3-family house” — what dictionary was the broker consulting for his/her definition of “large”? This is about the size of most dorm rooms, and about as enticingly decorated.
Rob – Please keep your fantasies to yourself. Although, we can all hope that you get tied to the radiator so we dont have to sift through all your pointless comments on here.