New Fort Greene condos on market

4-floorthru condos at 415 Clermont Avenue, priced from $525K to $545K.

The ground floor unit includes over 1,000 square feet of garden space and is the highest priced unit ast $545K.

The top floor unit has 745 sq ft of living space and over 700 sq ft of rooftop space and is priced at $535K.

The building is located between Fulton and Greene on a quiet street with two-way traffic, but is not heavily-trafficked.

Prospect Heights - new store

Goods NYC is Prospect Heights' newest retail venture on Underhill Avenue and Park Place.

It's paper bag at left says grocery, food and drink.

Let's hope it's got good coffee choices.

Whooga Ugg Boots

Buy your Ugg Boots here at Whooga.

Prospect Heights town hall meeting Thurrsday 10/22

Per Dan Goldstein's twitter feed:

Prospect Heights Town Hall With Hakeem Jeffries, Eric Adams and Letitia James

Thursday, October 22. 7:00pm

Sponsored by:
Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (PHNDC)

At:
P.S. 9 Auditorium
80 Underhill Avenue (between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street)


Join PHNDC for a town hall-style meeting with State Senator Eric Adams, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and City Council Member Letitia James.

Topics to be discussed include:
Traffic and transportation (mass transit, street conditions, MTA)
Local economy (jobs, housing, small business)
Atlantic Yards (revised plan, new impacts)

Please bring your questions and concerns for your elected representatives!

Open to General public

The Vanderbilt to open up next weekend

NY Mag has preview photos and a pdf of the menu.

Draft beers for $6.

Smoky fried chicken wings for $12 -- their attempt at bon chon chicken?

Razor clams for $12.

324 St. Marks Avenue Condos in Prospect Heights

You'll get radiant heating in the bathrooms and a gas fireplace in every unit, but it sure won't come cheap.

Prospect Heights' newest condos, marketed by Aguayo & Huebener, has a very Scarano-esque design, but are not actually designed by Scarano. Dubbed Mark 324, these condos are the latest entry into the NoProHo area by developers who are, at turns, emboldened by the success of the Washington and the Hello Living projects.

The prices, though, are quite a reach for the current real estate zeitgeist. To witness, the majority of the 3 bed, 2 bath units are $900K+.

NY Post says "Prospect Heights is the new Cobble Hill"

The NY Post's Katherine Dykstra boldly proclaims that Prospect Heights is the new Cobble Hill in today's Real Estate cover article.

To prove this, see the map at left, which also includes the Washington Condo and an owner who paid $540K for his 3 bedroom a few years ago.

curbed.com covers it here.

Fort Greene bookstore to open up shortly

Greenlight Bookstore will be opening really soon at the corner of South Portland and Fulton Street.

Curbed has the blurb here.

Brooklyn Paper link is here.

There's an opening party on October 24. Hopefully it's better than my current fave bookstore - St. Marks Bookshop in the East Village.

St. Felix Street Firehouse condo on sale

These units went on the market in 2005, during the RE boom for list prices of anywhere from $795K to $995K. At a list price of $850K, this owner isn't making much, if anything, from this potential sale.

Corcoran has the listing for this 2 bed, 2 bath unit that could be either 1,062 sq ft or 1,130 sq ft, depending on which unit it is.

The Vanderbilt Restaurant's PR blitz

The new restaurant at Vanderbilt and Bergen, to be known as the Vanderbilt, is the brain child of Saul's Saul Bolton. The website is up and the plywood is down, and Saul is on a PR blitz for his new restaurant.

Here are some recent blurbs on his new restaurant.

The Village Voice. Tasting Table. Metromix. Eater. Feedbag. onehansonplace.

Two sales at the Greene House Condos

Two units at the Greene House Condos have recently come on the market, both at eye-opening prices.

One unit is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1,220 square foot unit, unit 4E. The list price is at a bargain-basement $765K, down from $989K in February 2008.

The second unit just came on the market today, unit 9E at a price of $839K, which is just a few thousand dollars over what it originally sold at years ago.

Both are ostensibly distress sales of some sort - my guess is either job loss or job change. Any insiders know the scoop on these?

Either way, these prices could prove worrisome for anyone who's refinancing or selling in the near future. Unless the appraiser realizes that these are distress sales.

NYT On Prospect Park

The Times weighs in on the lack of people living in Meier's On Prospect Park.

At left, a couple who live on Plaza Street are able to look into everyone's apartment and claim that there are at least four completely empty floors, devoid of tenants.

Of note, the three or four residents who are interviewed are all senior citizens. One would think that such a hip, nice and expensive building would be inhabited by yuppies.

The article notes that the two Corcoran brokers repeatedly refused to let in reporters to tour the units along with prospective buyers.

Bark Hot Dogs AYCD 10pm to 1am

Per eater's dealfeed, Bark Hot Dogs on Bergen has a special $15 all you can drink deal on Friday and Saturday nights from 10PM to 1AM on their Sixpoint Craft Ales.

Atlantic Yards coming?

Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest men, has signed on with Ratner to invest in and help him build Atlantic Yards.

His blog, here.

The Brooklyn press releases all over..