Show Me Yours: Park Slope Real Estate

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SHOW ME YOURS is a new recurring column in which we do two things: show you Park Slope real estate and tell you how much it is. That's pretty much it!

Here's our latest victim Show Me Yours-er:

• Location: 5th Avenue
• Type: 1 Bedroom Shotgun
• Rent or Own: Rent
• Cost: $1650/month
• Square footage: 650
• Who calls this place home?: Graphic designer (at a record label), Web designer (at another record label), 2 cats
• What's really good about this joint?: Hardwood floors, 4 windows, 4 huge closets
• What's really bad about this joint?: Have to walk through the bedroom to the living room, janky kitchen appliances, no bathtub

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Who Gives A Shit: The Pros and Cons Of Living Above A Restaurant?

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I've always wondered what it's like to live above a restaurant. The closest I've come is living directly below my landlord, who burned chicken every night and screamed at her kid like an angry short order cook. My friends Ed and Trevor live above a busy restaurant on 5th ave. I asked them what the pros and cons were of such a living situation. Here are their thoughts:

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What a Brooklyn Broker Thinks of The Park Slope Arias

The Arias / Barclays Center Rendering Artist: TAKE NOTE! Recently I attended Broker’s Night at The Arias, a giant new residential building on 4th ave and Douglass that saw its first residents move in at the beginning of July, and is now 70% occupied, according to their website. The evening, which is meant to woo the 40+ attending brokers into enticing their clients to rent, was spent ogling a 1 bedroom model room and gorging on food and booze on the building's roof deck. All in all, not a bad night spent.

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Show Me Yours: Park Slope Real Estate

IMAGE VIA PARK SLOPE LENS

SHOW ME YOURS is a new recurring column in which we do two things: show you Park Slope real estate and tell you how much it is. That's pretty much it!

Here's our latest Park Slope pad:

• Location: 6th st (between 6th/7th ave)
• Type: 2 bedroom (used as one bedroom + office)
• Cost: $1895/month
• Amenities: Beautiful french doors, skylight in bathroom.
• Who calls this place home?: A freelance recording engineer/producer & Pratt student.  
• What's really good about this joint?: Location Location Location!  Rent is also pretty remarkable.
• What's really bad about this joint?: HOT in the summer. Electricity bills are fairly high. 

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Gowanus Artists Are Losing Their Lofts to a Park Slope School

Artists residing at the 270 Douglass Street lofts in Gowanus were IRATE upon learning that their space is going to be converted into a new charter school serving Park Slopers. The building is filled with clothing designers, photographers, and artists of other mediums who are pissed -- not at the school, but at their shady landlord (imagine that -- a shady landlord). The dude's been scheming behind their backs, replacing and moving things around in their leases so that he can kick them out at the drop of a hat.

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