34 FEBRUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 15, 2018 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP
Two-bedroom co-op in Bay Ridge with octagonal
living room and waterfront views asks $748K
BY CHRIS ERIKSON
Here’s a move-in ready
two-bedroom co-op in Bay
Ridge whose most distinctive
feature is an octagonal living room
with views of the waterfront and the
Verrazano Bridge.
It’s at 9821 Shore Road,
once home to many a
grand one-family residence
(like the one featured
here, #405), now
dominated by prewar
buildings like this one,
which was built in 1940.
The place has ample
light and views, with similar water
vistas out of both bedrooms and a
breakfast nook with double exposures.
There are good-sized spaces as
well; the living room is large and both
bedrooms similarly roomy.
The same can’t be said for the
kitchen, which looks narrow enough
to bring on a
touch of claust
r o p h o b i a ,
though it has the
aforementioned breakfast nook and
adjoins the dining room.
There are two full baths, including
an en-suite master bath, and six closets,
with two in each bedroom.
The building has a super
and a maintenance staff,
basement laundry, a common
garden, storage and a
gym — the latter two come
with fees. The subway is a
10-minute walk, and there’s
express bus service to Manhattan
along Shore Road.
Listed by Hiram T. Borrero
of Douglas Elliman,
the unit is asking $748,000,
and monthly fees are a
not-insubstantial $1,296.
What do you think?
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This apartment at 9821
Shore Road is for sale for
$748,000.
Brooklynite creates Find My Cone app to bring
ice cream trucks to you
BY JAIME DEJESUS
JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
We all scream for ice cream!
A new mobile application
aims to bring the
tasty treat to the digital age.
The app, Find My Cone, is attempting
to become the Uber of ice cream,
allowing users to receive a cone on
their schedule, making the days
of running after ice cream trucks
through the streets of Brooklyn a
thing of the past.
“What I want to do is change the
way people order ice cream," said app
creator and Dyker Heights native,
George Speranza. “The point of the
app is never to miss the ice cream
truck again.”
Speranza came up with the idea for
the app, which is currently available
for download on Android devices via
Google Play and will soon be available
on iOS devices, during his sleep
under a different name.
"I fell asleep and this idea came in my
head, wheresmrsoftee.com. So I woke
up and wrote it on a piece of paper,”
he explained. “Over time, I changed
it. I was sitting at the beach with my
daughter and she said 'Find My Cone.’”
According to Speranza, who is
currently CEO of a company called
Rockstar Media, the app will display
on your phone where the trucks are
at all times within a certain radius
of your location. A notification will
alert you when they are near.
“You get to see where the truck is
and you send the truck a
message where you are
and the truck has a tablet
docked on the dashboard of
the truck. The driver sees
the orders that are coming
and he knows where to go,
and he can hit a button and
you can see where the truck
is as it’s moving,” he said.
To make the app successful, Speranza
has purchased several tablets
with the app pre-downloaded for
participating trucks.
The app also has the potential to
correct a long-standing complaint,
when trucks stay in the same location
for a long time, idling and spewing
fumes into the air, sending nearby
residents indoors even in nice
weather.
“This (app) will keep the driver on
the go, and he won’t waste gas driving
around looking for people," Speranza
explained. "It helps everyone."
According to Speranza, truck
George Speranza has created
a new app for Brooklynites to
receive their ice cream cones in a
fast manner.
owners would be charged a small
monthly fee to participate.
“From my business model, I can
charge the truck per month. It's
peanuts,” he said.
A high volume of downloads is
what Speranza hopes will make it
successful.
Initially, the app will work with Mr.
Softee trucks, but Speranza hopes to
branch out to other vendors in the
future.
"The game changer is that before
the app, the only time you'd order ice
cream would be if you heard the jingle
or saw the truck," he said. "Once
Photo courtesy of Where’s My Cone?
you know it’s in your phone, you can
get it whenever you want it."
The app also helps stave off disappointment.
"When you miss the ice
cream truck, and your kids are upset,
you have to go to an ice cream store
where sometimes it’s $6 instead of
$2.50. That's a lot, especially if you
have a lot of kids," he explained.
Although you can download the
app now, expect the app to fully
live up to its name once the weather
warms up.
To learn more, download Find My
Cone on your Android device or visit
www.findmycone.com.