Bushwick Apartment Roundup 2/7/08
Dear apartment hunters: when you call on apartments you see here, please mention you saw it on BushwickBK.com!
#1 — $1575 — 3br: This agent’s inventory is amazing. This apartment in particular caught my eye for the sunlight streaming in every window, the gleaming wood floors, and the attractive period moldings. It’s in near Ridgewood, right near plenty of food options and transportation.
CATS OK Seneca and Putnam Seneca M/Myrtle LM
#2 — $2200 — 4br: It’s a whole two-story, 1600sqft house with a back yard. Not gorgeous but not bad, either. Not too bad of a location. All things being equal, I’m lukewarm about this place, but it’s a good deal for an entire house.
Putnam and Evergreen Gates JZ
#3 — $1350 — loft: This is in the Opera House “Dorms” on Arion Place. Decent price for the space, and the building has a gym area, a “lounge,” a rehearsal room, laundry, and free coffee (?), among other things.
Arion and Broadway Myrtle JMZ
#4 — $1100 — 2br rr: Blah place, but damn cheap and in good shape. Good location, near shopping.
DeKalb and Knickerbocker DeKalb L/Central M
#5 — $1400 — 2br: Two “master” bedrooms — shouldn’t that mean two en suite bathrooms? Anyway, very nice place, pretty bay front, but pretty far down there.
PETS OK Bushwick and Chauncey Chauncey J/Wilson L
Bushwick wannabe: There’s plenty of fuzziness involved in drawing the boundaries of Bushwick, but come on — north of Johnson, it’s definitely some kind of Williamsburg.
Dishonorable mention: Actually, not as bad now: it seems aptsandlofts.com has dropped the price on their soulless 3/2 to $2850. Less ridiculous now.
February 8th, 2008 at 8:15 am
The Opera House “Dorms” are not all that glamourous. Yes, you might get coffee for free if everything is stocked and yes, they have laundry (3 washers/dryers) but the workout room was falling through the rotted wooden floors as well as the yoga room, which had been closed for months before I moved out, and the lounge. The building managers don’t seem to want to spend the money to fix anything in these ‘free’ areas, so don’t be blinded, take a real look at this place before making a decision.
It is VERY dorm like there. Loud music and people wandering around at late hours. I moved out a few months ago because it is not the normal adult living space. Young kids with no sense of their neighbors.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Joan,
first off the coffee and soda machine isn’t even free. It’s only spring water that they give for free.
The free gym is not fully equipped, it only has 2 treadmills, a bike, an elliptical machine, bench press with weights and pullys, lat machine and some more minor stuff.
Then they threw in a table hockey table, ping pong table, pool table, and a pacman machine.
the lounge is just a few couches, some lamps a 39(?) inch tv with cable connection.
Ok, so they went ahead and built 2 soundproof rooms for music rehearsal (short on what they originaly contemplated to do recording rooms)
All in all I would say it’s probaly not more than 3 thousand feet of common area for all the above.
But I would give them that the basement is pretty cool looking and then there is the lovely courtyard in the front with an after-hour doorman.
Yet the ‘wandering’ people bug me too. Why just the other day I saw three guys ‘wandering’ to their apartment like 12:00pm, there was a certain aimlesness to their gait although hard to define.
They advertise a rooftop, but there’s no elevator and some floors have 15 ft heights. there will definitely be a lot of “wandering” when going up.
All in all Joan, you sure are lucky that you got out of this place in time.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
“gleaming” wood floors are tré tacky. how… pedestrian! much more tasteful to go with low gloss or matte varnish.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
You’re so damn sophisticated.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Yes, I’m aware that times have changed and Bushwick is an “up and comer” and all that, but that doesn’t change the sticker shock I feel when I look at the rents on these apartments–especially knowing that the neighborhood is still considered a “bargain” by some. $1K+ for an apartments in Bushwick tells me that NYC is really, truly finished for the working class.
My great-uncle used to own some apartments over on St. Nick. How I wish those were still in the family; we could be cashing in now like the other slumlords