Bklyn: ....and Fourth Avenue comes crashing down....

ouch

I can't believe anyone would have paid $700K to live in Gowanus in the first place, even for an entire house.

Let's see: $2,700 a month to live on a major thoroughfare, in a walk-up apartment, blocks from the Love Canal I mean Gowanus Canal, which is about 600 square feet when you subtract out the hallway....

"Well worth the walk up!"

LMAO!

You can rent a much better & bigger apartment in the Ellington for that cost, right in Manhattan:

http://www.rosenyc.com/No-Fee-Rental/The-Ellington.aspx

and not have to worry about losing your shirt.

How's about $150,000?

556 per sqft for a top floor walk-up in brooklyn? still over-priced

Fourth Avenue is not a desirable place to live unless you like a view of the Gowanus Canal and car detail centers.

Oh, I forgot: THE TAX BENEFIT!

I'm with you. We're not even talking about a neighborhood with "potential", even if 20 years away. You're talking about on a major thoroughfare, just ok for transportation, lousy building stock (this is never going to be a "pretty neighborhood", near projects, not particularly close to Manhattan... and asking for ridiculous prices.

Someone on another thread tried to say that 4th avenue had similar "foundations" to SoHo and Tribeca...

but I think that just shows how delusional folks got in the frenzy.

actually, I was wrong... the comment was worse/funnier than I thought...

"It has all the bones of soho, dumbo, and williamsburg... and if it takes 10 years to get there that's fine by me."

My favorite part is how 10 years is supposed to represent the worst case...

;-)

Someone needs to tell them that SoHo and Tribeca don't have major thoroughfares (no thanks to Robert Moses, who tried) and they have a stock of beautiful cast-iron buildings, they are in MANHATTAN and have some of the best public transport in the city (and hence the country).

Which part of that is like 4th Avenue in Brooklyn?

Where's spunky? (I haven't said that in a while!)

This is another one of those SE threads that is going to go from funny to sad, just like 407PAS.

4th avenue is too easy of a target. Why not try for something a little more challening? :)

Hell, I'll take a shot also - look at the google maps satellite view. All those windows on the right hand side of the floorplan have a great view of the mirror image floorplans in the building next door about 10 feet away....