#1 — $1375 — 2br: This place is great — old details in great shape, nice light, awesome location close to the train and between stuff on Knickerbocker and Wyckoff. Like the checkerboard floors in the huge kitchen. 12 foot ceilings!
Irving and Stanhope DeKalb L
#2 — $750 — studio: Cheapest apartment I have ever seen in Bushwick. It looks kind of cruddy and I think it might be in the basement, but for $750, you can “suffer.”
Cornelia and Broadway Gates JZ
#3 — $1500 — 2br: Look at this cute ass building — a real brick house, not a sagging frame piece of crap — a 90 second walk from the L and M. It’s a 10 minute walk to everything great on Knickerbocker, and all utilities are included!
Linden and Irving Myrtle-Wyckoff LM
#4 — $1050 — 1br: This is a funky little street that I take to go to the J train, and this is my favorite block of it. The place looks big and bright, and the price is right.
Jefferson and Evergreen Myrtle JMZ
#5 — $1050/1200 — 1 and 2br: Nice place with wood floors and plenty of light. Nothing special but it’s cheap.
PETS OK Eldert and Bushwick Halsey J
From the wtf file: The apartment seems fine, if somewhat overpriced, but…is the agent a 12-year-old girl? “MaGnIfIcEnTLy rEnOvAtEd*NO FEE*ExPoSeD bRiCk*j tRaIn*10 minS tO CiTy*” omg lulz 4 reel
Bushwick wannabe: It’s only a (long) block out of Bushwick (or is that Bushwich?), but once again, I must insist that Lewis Avenue in its entirety is in Bed-Stuy.
jay October 4th, 2007 at 11:37 am
1. love the kitchen, 12′ ceilings are great hope they aren’t only in this room, new but cheap appliances. cut off corners on the windows. does this imply a brick or brownstone?
2. who hired this interior decorator? be prepared to be evicted if this is an illegal basement apt. lots of hangers for the price.
3. buyer beware, 2 different kitchens/fridges are shown.
4. so the kitchen doesn’t match, and you can stroll along with Jeremy.
5. I would have put the wood floors the other way, but hey for that price and being Jimmy’s neighbor we can live.
from file: bad, bad marketing. the building is nice, the cabinets in kitchen are nice, but to ask $2k, and have it promoted this way?
wannabe: forget the area, no place is brooklyn is worth $10,001,300 per month.
Jimmy Legs October 4th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Free kitten(s) to anyone who takes the eldert apt. just move in and open your window!
Ridgehooder October 4th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
#2 is definitely a basement apartment. Look at the window in the photo! Basement apartments are very depressing.
jay October 4th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Jimmy, what happened to welcoming the people to the are with a basket full of good cheer. But a kitten, way different.
Ridge, good catch on the widow.
bk ex-broker October 4th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Since #1 is being listed by owner AND I don’t do this any more anyway, no one can accuse me of shilling my own stuff. Anyway, the landlord is a GREAT guy. I had this building a year and a half ago when he first renovated it. It is MUCH bigger than it looks in the pictures. Ceilings are 12″ through the whole thing, no dropped ceilings. He did a really nice job renovating it. It’s on a good block. They’re not much for guarantors, though, which is why I stopped working with them. Rent was $1200 a year and a half ago, wow. NOT a brownstone. Good block. it’s a great deal. very clean. and, like i said, good landlord.