The egg is crusty on my face for not having known more about Ditmas Park before yesterday… and I claim to be from BROOKLYN!?! Oy vey!
Look at this place!
- Growing up in suburban NJ, I can say this setting used to conjure demons of teen angst but now it just blows my mind that THIS is within crawling distance of Prospect Park. Nothing too shy of $1M for one of these babies.
- Strolling down Cortelyou Rd. I stumbled on the kindly tinker, her caged-in wares bursting the metal. No shortage of treasures here.
- Mimi’s Hummus for lunch. Traditional-style Middle Eastern hummus, fresh pita, eggs and merguez cooked in cast iron skillets, salads that actually make you feel cooler, mint tea. Amazing find and will soon be neighbors to a wine bar.
- Sycamore flower shop and bar. WHUUUT??? Insanely dandy concept. Sniff a rose whilest drinking absinthe.
- The Farm on Adderly restaurant also on Cortelyou Rd. is lookin’ good and rustic. The video Zagat made is a little hard to swallow (I love how the hostess gives her description of the sensation of eating their Chicken in the Hay dish as “thick”) but it gives you a quick nibble of what you might find.
- Vox Pop cafe is more than a proper corner java hut, it’s the hub of DIY radical culture, open mic nights, and “communal capitalism” says CNN.
Haven’t really dug into what listings are available out in these parts but if anyone’s desire is ignited by this post, drop a comment on a honky!
The following is a place in one of my really good friend/biz partner’s buiding on the 3rd floor of this absolute gem of an old school Greenpoint pre-war apartment.
Entrée!
Since I can’t caption everything like I’m used to, just know that the craftsmanship is all by hand, original details preserved, and there are windows throughout.
While a single person or tasteful couple could live here quite comfortably, the potential for it to function as a share is imminently possible.
- Available Aug. 1, 2009.
- Pets are Jim Dandy.
- Not sure about utilities yet.
- Located on the corner of Newton St. and McGuinness Blvd.
The bi-level backyard, bay windows for your breakfast nook, and mysterious ticket booth/closet all form like a fancy Voltron into one haughty home on Henry.
- Lucite blades fan you with modern winds over your ample living/dining space.
- Stupidly nice kitchen. I actually prefer the old nice ovens… kinda kills me when people who think themselves gastronomes reject these appliances because of their age. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to!
- Put this in your crock and roast it! Smart storage and LOTS of it.
- Here’s the real custard buster… bay windows surrounding a kitchen breakfast nook and the door that leads…
- …to your Zenned-out bi-level private Om garden. SHANTI-SHANTI-SHAN-TIHI!
- The upper level of Zen garden existence. Don’t like the color of those fence boards? Paint ‘em! Stain ‘em! Grow some climbers on ‘em! It’s YOURS!
- Nothing all too flashy about the bedroom thought it’s quite large. It’s at the front of the building but the street outside is dead quiet.
- Wasn’t quite sure what to make of this oddity. A section of the bedroom wall has been cut out to allow light to enter a very narrow cubby that’s either a decent sized closet, a ticket booth to charge admission to your guests when you have those underground dinner party masquerades, a place for bedroom marionette performances, a new way to install an elaborate entertainment system, or your private bedroom bar.
- Who says storage isn’t important? You’ve got this in addition to the above mystery booth just for your bedroom.
- All the things you’d expect to find in a bathroom are, in fact, there.
The math totally works on this one – three people, less than $1,000 each AND heat/hot water are included.
Say WORD!
- Living space. The final frontier.
- Dinner party anyone? Kitchen is OPEN for business! “Hey man, you need help with those dishes.” Nope. No worries, man… I got a damn dishwasher.
- Bedroom 1: Looks like FUN!
- Bedroom 2: Squibbily doo!
- Bedroom 3: Maybe not for me because it’s a little teeny-weeny. But if you have to pee, you’ll be singin’ tweedily DEE [because it's right near the bathroom...]
- …which is right here. Majorly into the foggy-glass-window-in-the-shower thing and the black/white tiles. Save a few bucks, our fragile ocean marine habitat, and some hundreds of thousands of years not having to bio-degrade PVC shower cutrains too.
South Slope is still the mild mild west but there’s always the random troubadour who’s dying to get in on one of these slightly run down, relatively cental, quite spacious places.
Come hither…
- Pretty giant-sized kitchen/living space. Guess those high Cylon-eye windows are so you can forget about the squalor that is 4th Ave.
- Kitchen and yes, a dishwasher. Tada!
- A sliver of a bathroom but it’s all ready for you to clean it, Mr. Swiffer!
- I found this bedroom rather difficult to photograph because it’s such a long and somewhat narrow room. So there’s the first angle…
- …and there’s the other.
- Utilities are NOT included. Lame.
- Laundry is on the corner. Not too bad.
- Pets gotta be cool… how could the landlord deny you the companionship of a pet.
Funny how things work sometimes. This place is RIGHT across the street from the listing below! WEIRD! Sorry… I get excited about stupid shit.
OBSERVE!
- Again, big fan of this landlord’s beautiful old brownstones. Stoops are always a big plus in my book.
- Pretty dope living space: crazy high ceilings, bay windows, skylights… it’s a charmer.
- Totally doable kitchen. Not the newest appliances but they work, there’s counter space, and hey look! A dishwasher! No way!
- Of the two bedrooms here, this would probably be considered the “2nd.” Situations that benefit from this cute little cabin are: 1. A couple with their buddy from college who’s looking for a place to crash for a while. 2. A couple who needs an adequately sized home office, loves this part of Park Slope, and digs the idea of having 1.5 bathrooms.
- Here’s your 1 (left) .5 (right) bathrooms. The .5 is attached to the “master” bedroom shown below…
- …here it is! Situated at the back of the building, quiet, sunny enough for a place for sleeping and it’s attached to it’s own bathroom. Sweet!
Can one person handle this much private open space in Brooklyn?
We seek to answer that question and many more, here, at Twisted Lister:
- I’ve become a fan of this landlord’s buildings. All seem really solid, nice looking, great locations, and interior work leaning toward restoration than gut renovation.
- Not exactly fit for a Chef de Cuisine but it’s open enough. I’d recommend a collapsible shelf installed on that wall between the stove and the closet to add more counter space.
- Here’s the reasonably adequate living space. Behind you is the kitchen (pictured above) and through that door…
- …is the backyard of pure paradise. Super deep, perfectly shady, pleasantly sunny, and includes a cool furniture set left by the previous tenants (thanks guys!).
- A 1br wouldn’t be complete without a bedroom. Tiny but I can still see it being perfectly livable. It’s size, from what I’m told, is where most of the complaints come from. Still a good size for anyone looking to live minimally.
- I caught Park Place on a really pretty afternoon. The neighboorhood is unique, two blocks from my favorite Jamaican patty/coco bread bakery (Christie’s), it’s convenient to a bunch of trains like the Begen 2,3 and a half block from 7th Ave. B,Q.
Some may call this the “nice part” of Bed Stuy. Everything’s clean, no syringes or used condoms in the park, the brownstones are impeccably kept and the neighbors actually wave and say hello. It’s light years from anything resembling a Brooklyn scene except for that stuff happening on Lewis Ave… but then again, isn’t that why you’re moving?
Follow closely this tour of your future home:
LOWER DUPLEX (2br – $1800)
- We’ll start from the ground floor and work our way up. This is the first room you see when you walk in under the front stoop. Likely it’s to be used as your main living area with plenty of space and mellow light.
- Newly renovated ground floor kitchen from one angle…
- Long table with inviting stools in the ground floor kitchen from the other angle. And that’s the door to your…
- …private back yard. There’s the essence of cat piss back there but the landlord, a kind and insanely friendly woman, has promised to mend a broken section of the fence and repour the concrete. Lot’s of growing space under some pretty trees.
- And don’t worry about hauling your rusty-ass hibachi over… there’s a freakin’ new Weber that the previous tenants left for you (shown “regular” and “trippy” style). You’re welcome.
- Now that you’ve come down off your “we’re getting a backyard with a grill!” high, we’re ready to schlep up the stairs to your other private floor where the bedrooms be at. This is the one in the back of the house.
- This is the totally excellent shelving unit built into the closet in the aforementioned and aforepictured bedroom.
- This is the incredibly cute half bath found in the aforementioned/aforepictured bedroom above.
- As soon as you’re ready to blow everyone’s mind when you say, “Welcome to my bedroom,” you can totally use this room for the backdrop. All original molding, lighting fixtures, mirror, shelving and stained glass can be found in this front bedroom on the 1st floor. Pimp shit.
- Lily white porcelain parlour for your pleasure still here on the 1st floor. Now let’s head on up to the 2nd…
UPPER DUPLEX (3br – $1850)
- Too difficult to photograph adequately with my little Lumix even with the 16:9 aspect ratio setting, this is the 2nd floor living room with crazy light.
- Clean and skuzz free. 2nd floor bathroom all shiny and new.
- Here’s where my memory starts to get a little weak… can’t remember if this bedroom is on the 2nd or 3rd floors. Alas, it’s part of the UPPER DUPLEX and you can easily fit a large bed in there.
- This might be the only bummer thing about the UPPER DUPLEX. Kind of a smallish kitchen but I know it’s on the 3rd floor because of the rad skylight.
- Just when you thought, “How many fireplaces and bedrooms could there possibly be in an $1800/month apartment?”…then you discover this shellacked beauty on the 3rd floor.
- Perhaps the freakiest room in the house. May I present the Oompa Loompa-Children in the Attic-Mommy Dearest Room. Probably good for an office if you can keep the screaming out of your head.
- Heat/hot water controlled and paid for by tenant.
- Not sure about pets but the landlord didn’t seem to excited about the prospect.
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