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This spacious studio has a sleek, modern feel while incorporating pre-war details.
Spacious studio, classic details
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens prewar co-op asks $447K
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boards 2 and 6 at a closeddoor
meeting on March 11,
where the agency reportedly
told them that they
were backing off their controversial
promenade highway
plan.
The committee leader
added that the community
board should also appoint a
board member to act as a liaison
for the project.
An intermediary from the
community board could attend
the various meetings
and bring the information
to the board in a more centralized
way, according to
another board member who
supported the idea.
“There are many meetings
about this going on
within the community, I’ve
been to a couple of them myself.
I don’t think we’re going
to stop them. However,
I think to have a single message
and also that the message
is correct, it’s accurate,
would be a very good thing,”
said Leonard Jordan. “This
way you don’t have seven or
eight different small meetings
going on and information
gets passed around
and actually happens in
one venue.”
The community board
chairman lauded the idea,
but said that he would have
to consider whether it is feasible
because it would be challenging
to get someone from
the board — whose members
are all volunteers — to
take on the hefty workload
required for the role.
“I’m not against it, it’s just
to try to get people to volunteer
to take on roles like
that and given the complexity
as we understand it, that
paid for this and so the other
person wouldn’t get paid either,”
said Lenny Singletary.
“I think the idea would be a
wonderful idea, I just want to
see how we take it from concept
to reality, which would
be our process.”
Singletary asked Cullen-
Cheung and her fellow committee
members to pen a letter
with their specific requests
which he will review and send
to the department.
“I would ask that the committee
write a recommendation
of what you would like to
see for this process and then
let me review it and we submit
that to DOT,” he said.
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FROM THE PAGES OF BROWNSTONER.COM
Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
As prewar studios go, this
co-op in Prospect-Lefferts
Gardens is relatively spacious,
with a separate renovated
kitchen that has substantial
counter space, a proper
entrance foyer, and a bathroom
in good condition.
From the entrance, there’s a
step down into the combined
bedroom and living room
through an arched doorway.
The corner bedroom has three
windows on two sides, and
both the kitchen and bathroom
have windows as well. It’s got
parquet floors in the first two
rooms, gray and white tiles
in the bathroom, and a new
floor in the kitchen.
The entrance foyer has
Douglas Elliman
ing rink on March 26.
It was touch and go for
a few days as the Horvaths
pumped the bird full of fluids
and Vitamin K, but the hawk
managed to survive the weekend,
and is now eating and
ornery, according to Bobby
Horvath, who said the bird’s
combativeness is a sure sign
of good health.
“He doesn’t want to
be bothered, restrained,
or medicated anymore,”
he said. “He’s putting up
much more of a fight than he
did before.”
The bird is a young male,
and fortunately not part of
a breeding pair, meaning it
hasn’t staked out a territory
and can be released anywhere
that isn’t already occupied
by other hawks.
And that, coupled with
the fact that another hawk
died under similar circumstances
in 2017 , means the animal
rescuers probably won’t
return the predator to Prospect
Park, and will likely seek
out some other city greenspace,
potentially outside of
the borough.
“This bird isn’t married
to that territory, it could be
released anywhere,” said
Bobby Horvath.
The Parks Department
suspended use of Rodenticide
in Prospect Park following
the 2017 hawk fatality,
and currently utilizes snap
traps and dry ice — which
are not harmful to the meadow’s
avian occupants — as
the park’s only anti-rat devices,
according to spokeswoman
Maeri Ferguson.
However, hawks can range
far and wide in search of fourlegged
snacks, and poisoned
mouse traps remain a common
sight on the stoops of
nearby row houses surrounding
Brooklyn’s Backyard, according
to Bobby Horvath.
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shelves built into a niche, and
a little hallway with the apartment’s
three closets forms a
petite dressing room of sorts.
There is laundry in the building,
a bicycle room, live-in super
and storage units.
According to the Certificate
of Occupancy and Brooklyn
Daily Eagle articles, 125 Ocean
Ave. was constructed in 1940,
and it is rather bland and featureless
with its tan bricks patterned
to give it at least a little
texture, and a unremarkably
modern awning. Maybe the
buyer can convince the co-op
board to slap a name on the
awning to give the building
some pizzaz.
The elevator building has
65 units, according to the listing,
handled by Rene Eskengren
of Douglas Elliman, and
apartment 6E is on the top
floor. So there won’t be footsteps
overhead and it’s likely
to be light.
It’s close to Prospect Park,
although the Q train does run
just in back of the building,
so it could be noisy.
At $390, the maintenance
is very low, and at the asking
price of $447,000 with 20
percent down, you’re possibly
looking at monthly payments
around $2,000. So maybe it’s
affordable to a single professional
making around $90,000
or so. Worth it?
The facade of 125 Ocean Ave.
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