{"id":2060,"date":"2007-01-29T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/gowanus_expy_vus.html"},"modified":"2007-01-29T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:41:44","slug":"gowanus_expy_vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/gowanus_expy_vu.html","title":{"rendered":"Gowanus Expy Vus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new benchmark for overpriced undesirable apartments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01292007\/news\/regionalnews\/fumes_with_a_view__3_600_regionalnews_rich_calder.htm\">may have been reached<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Just $3,600-a-month will get a luxury Brooklyn apartment with jaw-dropping, scenic views &#8212; of the truck-filled, exhaust-choked Gowanus Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Developers Jack Basile and Nick Barone are building a brownstone-style 10-unit apartment building with ground-floor commercial space in Carroll Gardens &#8212; just a stone&#8217;s throw from the elevated expressway.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, their five-story building at the corner of Court and Garnett streets is so close to the highway that future tenants heading into Manhattan won&#8217;t need to check traffic reports before battling the morning rush, they can just step onto their terrace or peek out a window.<\/p>\n<p>While the fumes and noise from passing vehicles could be a deterrent, Basile and Barone expect a lot of interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The apartments will do very well because they have a Court Street address, which is desirable, and it&#8217;s great for people who can&#8217;t afford Manhattan but want that Manhattan feel,&#8221; Basile said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That Manhattan feel&#8221; &#8212; read: bedrooms with value-added car exhaust smell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new benchmark for overpriced undesirable apartments may have been reached: Just $3,600-a-month will get a luxury Brooklyn apartment with jaw-dropping, scenic views &#8212; of the truck-filled, exhaust-choked Gowanus Expressway. Developers Jack Basile and Nick Barone are building a brownstone-style 10-unit apartment building with ground-floor commercial space in Carroll Gardens &#8212; just a stone&#8217;s throw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-real_estate","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}