(This is a new column. In an effort to help apartment owners who are looking to sell without a broker and to show off cool apartments to readers looking for them, we are posting good ones that we stumble upon. Readers are welcome to submit as well to editor@apartmenttherapy.com and put "FSBO" in the subject line.)
Location: Sweeney Bldg 30 Main St, DUMBO
Size: 1,679 sq/ft
Price: $999k
Contact: Warren 917-679-0135
Website: LINK
Pitch: REDUCED 150K. Own a piece of DUMBO for less than $600/sf. The new low price allows you to avoid the Mansion Tax. Low condo fees and J51 tax abatement.
1,679 sq. ft. 2 bedroom 1.5 bath loft with 11' ceilings and exposed concrete beams/columns. The stainless steel and marble kitchen features Sub Zero, Viking, Thermador, and Bosch appliances. Marble baths include a whirlpool tub. Your own laundry room has a washer/dryer, sink, and storage space. Oversized closets. Architectural details include pocket doors, glacier glass wall, and diamond-plated stairs.
my vote: nice!
Beautiful place! Thanks for featuring these Maxwell!
There is simply no way that loft is 1600 sq. ft. The numbers aren't even close.
Mebbe they are counting shelf space in the square footage - nice shelves too.
I just came back from a long lunch with an old friend from high school, who is here for a couple of days. I told her that the one good thing about the transit strike is it gives New Yorkers something other than real estate to talk about. But I love this new feature!
At 6:09 that is one LONG lunch!!
I also think that 1600 sq. ft. is off. I had a 1300 sq. ft. condo once and it had 2 bedrooms/2.5 baths and looked way bigger than this floorplan. I think they need to recalculate before continuing to advertise it at 1600 sf
Hint: don't post "reduced 150k." People will wonder why. Most people are not familiar with DUMBO prices and will not know that this is an incredible deal for the area and building. Also, I am sure that the apartment is 1600 sq ft b/c I know apartments in that building. So everyone should stop being so mean!
Mean? I don't think anyone is being mean, just questioning the dimensions. If you add up the given dimensions it does not come out to 1679 sq. ft. How is that "mean"?
Is clutterfreemiss a joke? Fuel for the fire?
Anyway, rounding up to a square 37' x 34' comes out to 1258 sq ft.
Are they doing that "portion of common area" thing that they do? Or "wall measurements". Hmmmm. I wish folks would use "usable" square footage.
Bobby
sorry, total non east coast-er here,
what does "DUMBO" stand for?
It stands for - get this - "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass". IMO, I think it's kinda dumb(o).
New people posting. Good.
Jon: It is dumb. If you're a west coaster, then its as silly as saying "Adjacent to Beverly Hills". Someone not from LA wouldn't know that really means, perhaps, Korea Town. We all have our silly lingo. Educational, huh?
i actually heard someone else use that term, and they had said "...come to our DUMBO office..." i just thought she didn't like her office- thank God i didn't comment!- now i am enlightened!- thanks anne and jmarieb for the schoolin'
There are no dimensions listed for either bathrooms or the kitchen --Could that be where the remaining 400sft are?
If you do the calculations, there are about 800 sq feet missing.
Square footage is calculated from the outside walls. The number includes all your walls, closets, etc.
Square foot measurements can be subjective--and like Teonyc can be from the outside walls, midway through the walls, inside wall..it all depends. I'm not familiar with residential real estate, but in commercial real estate, there are often those "common area" amounts that someone is leasing that aren't usable. There are many standards used...which is why its so dang difficult for the consumer of real estate!
I think real estate industry-coined neighborhood designations are hilarious. Here in DC, they've recently come up with a few, like NOMA (north of Massachusetts), and I have no familiarity with DUMBO but generally from my experience in DC and Philly, I've found that most places that have just gotten those names are scary! :)
These acronyms are really getting out of hand. It started with SOHO, which is fine, but then it got out of hand. I wish we would stop trying to make up dumb acronyms for neighborhoods and go back to actually naming them.
As a designer I have always gotten the square footage of a home by measuring the floor from front to back and multiply that by the side to side measurement. So if you look at the floorplan above you would get the sq. ft. by using the LV and one bedroom and then both the bedrooms. All other spaces in the apt. are inside that measurement (even some empty space).
is this apartment still available?
It's not the seller's fault, but million dollar condos ruined DUMBO - the people owning here have no need for local amenities, b/c they're rich enough to dart in and out in their land rover from the other places where they eat, work, and play. I don't know if other cities go through this sort of thing - it's not so much gentrification as speculation. Living and investing are not the same thing.