Columbia House

Ummmm... a garage?

Columbia House and the next door place used to be a very good lumber shop. And a vet clinic.

And be careful of what is said in the website about the neighborhood as they are taking some liberties. In the restaurant list they have Lisca and Cafe Con Leche, (just two I caught in a brief look) both of which are below 96th st. So not exactly around the corner.

They didn't need to do that. The area has a lot of really quality neighborhood restaurants now. And they should take Carne off the list. It is now Toast and I think the change is a vast improvement.

The neighborhood is good but the apartments are pretty much glorified railroads.

I was thinking something along those lines... that it just looked a little too expensive for the product and the neighborhood. I might be wrong. Size wise they are no great shakes, but modern construction in the area is rare unless you look at the Ariels.

I am interested in possibly buying there as I live there now, so I guess I will keep an eye on that one.

funny i thought it was a halfway house or a rehabilitation center. homeless shelter? drug rehab? mabye 2 doors down on the same side of the street.

it is http://www.TheBridgeInc.org 2 doors down.

Special package deal if you have both mental illness and an addiction. Not bad. I might send my crazy stoner brother over there.

Does anyone know what is happening with this building? There have been no open houses in the last couple of months, no price changes, and the sign on their building is falling down.

I hear its get 10 apartments for the price of 1.

Why is it that virtually every condo in manhattan is near either projects, homeless shelter, or drug clinic?

um possibly because we try to take care of our fellow citizens in need.

They're trying to recreate that Chicago ambience, PsychoCrackerBoy.

So basically it's "liberal" NYC goodwill. I suppose using taxpayer money to give out luxury apartments to welfare moms and drug addicts, also fall under that category.

This is why NYC will never be a truly prestigious and upscale city. Spending seven-figures to live in a condo that's near projects or drug clinics is the epitome of a third-tier city. Truly world-class cities are segregated by income. The affluent live in nice clean areas where they can enjoy great amenities.

jjc2211, cite your sources for those "facts". Or are they the opposite of facts?

Go visit Chicago sometime, dumbass. And walk around gold coast, river north, streeterville, lincoln park, lakeview. There is not a SINGLE housing project, drug clinic, or homeless shelter.

This is the advantage of segregation. The nice areas are impeccably clean and gentrified, and you can buy a condo without worrying about the homeless shelter or housing project across the street, which is a common concern among new yorkers.

JohnAnthony is Rufus, who was rejected by his dream school and dream city, Columbia and New York City.
He loved the city until sour grapes set in...

This is all well documented...
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/8131-rufus-mystery-solved

He is so jealous he spends all day trying to post negatively about NYC.

Man, this guy is so pathetic...

what a loser...

"got rejected at columbia business and am pretty devastated."

"Oh well. I have to spend an extra year in shitty Chicago and reapply for round 1 next year."

"I've been to NYC several times but haven't really partied extensively. But almost everyone I've talked to who lives there tells me how NYC is so much fun and doesn't really get boring, people are interesting, etc. To what extent is this true? What makes NYC so much more fun than other cities like LA, SF, Boston, Chicago, etc.?"

"I live in Chicago but have been to NYC quite a few times and noticed a very sharp difference in the respective social scenes. Chicago seems much more fratty and bar oriented while NYC is a bit more upscale and pretentious. The girls in NYC also dress a lot better as well. I would like to hear opinions on this subject from those of you familiar with both cities."

Now that he's been rejected multiple times, he's changed his story a bit.

"Thanks for the encouragement. I'm just really bummed out since I'm 27 years old, and now is the perfect time to go. And socially, I'm extremely dissatisfied with Chicago and really want to be in NYC. I just have to improve my application for next year and hope things turn out better"

Rufus - Dry your tears. You got rejected....game over. Move on. You may want to look into a waitperson job at your local Applebee's. Also, if you have your sights set on school, I told you yesterday that DeVry can't make the first call, you have to reach out to them. Should I get the number for you or do you know how to use a phone book or the Google?

alanhart - Can ayou help Rufus use The Google and look up a phone number?

He needs to go to one of those liberal wealth-redistribution occupational-training programs for the differently-abled to learn skills like looking up phone numbers in the Google.

This has gone beyond Columbia at this point. We've entered the Twilight Zone with this guy. He's clearly off his rocker. If he was 27 then he's pushing 30 now, clearly no job, no education, no actual friends, all he has is this. In Rufus' mind things like Streeteasy and WallStreetOasis are the only friends he has because they are the only places where people will actually respond to him. I understand why he posts the same nonsense all day long, he has nothing else to do, clearly the NPD affects his mental thought process, and even if people here are pwning him, he probably at least feels some sort of gratification because he gets some level of human interaction out of it. It gets lonely living in a basement in Hammond.

Isn't that across the street from the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too?

i know he is a tool and kind of crazy but does he also have to be a racist? there's no other way to read his segregation remark. it's vile.

What I want to know is if he is that much of a racist (which he clearly is, as I have never ever seen anyone start a sentence with 'this is the advantage of segregation'), how do you think he would have dealt with going to school up at Columbia? He would have set one foot on the ground, seen one person who wasn't white and then run as fast as he could back to his precious segregated city of Chicago. Truly, bizarroworld.

jasonkyle, i was referring to economic segregation, not racial. But of course, you're too dumb to understand the difference.

Yes, rufus, but we've also seen all your other racists posts. Pretty well documented.

Not only are you a jealous loser, you are a lousy human being.

One other thing I noticed was that jjc2211 stated they lived in the 'Gold Coast', and you'll notice in almost every one of Rufus' Chicago examples, he lists 'Gold Coast' first when he rants about neighborhoods.

including the JA post in this very thread...

this guy is pathetic.

yeah i think you chose the word segregation on purpose just going by the tenor of your previous comments. and you can question my intelligence all you would like but i got into both ivy league schools i applied to. sorry you didn't.

jasonkyle, would you rather spend $2million in a condo that's next to a housing project in manhattan or a condo in a nice clean area like streeterville, gold coast, or lincoln park?

The market has clearly answered the question.... and its NYC as the clear favorite.

Then again, Rufus already answered this question as well... he wanted NYC, and then cried his eyes out when he didn't get accepted. And he wanted HARLEM.

Any idea why these guys would take their prices back up if they weren't selling?

Hey, I sent these guys 1cent for 12 music albums and so far I have yet to recieve a thing!

these listings are now "no longer available" as of a couple of weeks ago. interesting...anyone have insight into what is going on?

Just relisted after an across-the-board 30% cut.

Really, that across-the-board cut is more like 10%. The prices had previously been reduced by about 20%, then briefly restored to the original levels, as freestreeteasy noted above.

live just across the street from the columbia house. absolutely LOVE this neighborhood -- two AMAZING gourmet grocery shops around the corner, a gazillion great restaurants (community, le monde, henry's, wondee, thai market, etc.), silver moon bakery (the best in the city), coffee shops, absolute bagels (again, the best in the city), the transportation options galore...the neighborhood has definitely upgraded since we moved here 8 years ago. having said that much, $1.245 million for a north-facing railroad apartment wedged between a parking garage and a halfway house? are they kidding me??? when they first started building the condo complex (is it two years ago now?), my husband and i both predicted that they'd never sell -- not for the price they were initially asking for. and apparently not for the price they're asking for now. as for the individuals who frequent the bridge, they're harmless enough, but they do hang out on the street alot, smoking and occasionally drinking. somewhat annoying, but again, harmless...

UWSgirl, how is crime in the neighborhood. Any different from most parts of the city?

I saw the thread and thought someone ordered DVDs.

108th is not the fringe of the UWS. 125th is.

Columbus, you've posted that apt. in several threads, always with the same selling slogan. Are you the broker or the owner going FSBO?

"West 108th is clearly the fringe of the Upper West Side." what are you smoking? 108th is substantially better than, say 95th-99th on Broadway or even the 80s on Amsterdam. Despite what you believe, neighborhoods in NYC don't progress in some sort of orderly fashion to a "fringe." There are more local shops (many of which were enumerated by UWSgirl, above), more people from Columbia University, and much less of a nuisance on Broadway at night.

That said, Columbia House is sandwiched between two fairly grimy places that aren't dangerous, but are annoying. I wouldn't move in, but with 2 beds and a home office, keyed elevators, outdoor space and pretty nice finishes/appliances, these places will move if they are priced more around $1M than what they are now.

trompolico...columbus ...has adopted a pitifully obvious and obnoxious strategy of posting that little apartment on threads whether it is relevant or not

COLUMBUS....this is pitifully transparent, and disingenuous (query: if something is pitifully obvious. can it also be disingenuous?....well, yes, if the person is too dumb to realize it is obvious)...Please. Do something clever !! Walk to lunch without getting lost !

freestreeteasy, i don't know what the crime stats are in this neighborhood, but i've never had any problems at all. i'm a 35 year old woman who used to walk alone very often from the subway station late at night (a stupid thing to do, admittedly), and i never felt threatened at all. always tons of people walking around at any time of night. granted, the later you go into the night, the shadier the characters are, but i'd always recommend cabbing home late at night anywhere in the city anyway. there are other, supposedly "nicer" streets on the UWS that i wouldn't walk home alone on after sun-down for all the money in the world -- like the cross-streets between CPW and Broadway in the 80s. those streets freak me out because they're so ill-lit and so quiet. who knows what kind of shady character is lurking in the dark? the one thing i'll say about this neighborhood, though, is that the public schools should be avoided in my opinion. we're expecting our first child now and are reluctantly having to consider moving for that reason. we'd be loathe to give up this neighborhood, but we also refuse to dish out $30,000 for kindergarten. hope that helps.

hey - just to set the record straight - i love the neighborhood. there are good stores, restaurants, bars etc. The only issue I have is that I would hesitate to spend the money on a condo next to a rehab center. i am glad they have rehab centers. i do not mind them being in the neighborhood. I just would hesitate to have kids walking by the lined up patients every morning.

I am not ready to force them into the river or anything. I would just hesitate to buy at that location. I would have no problem around the corner on Bdwy and 107.