Good value, with some typical issues.
Pros
Great neighborhood, nice neighbors. Close to amazing restaurants and shops on Washington Avenue and Vanderbilt, walkable to Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn. Great Subway access (2/3/4/Q). Minutes to Brooklyn Museum, Library, and Prospect Park. The super is amazing - doesn't live on site, but is very kind and reasonably responsive.
Cons
Building is old, and that comes with a few things. It's a walk up, and the stairs are narrow and steep. There are pests (cockroaches and mice). An exterminator comes every month, and they've done a great job of preventing all but a few cockroaches. We've pretty consistently had at least 1 mouse, which I'm not thrilled with. Street is pretty loud/active (not the management company's fault, just something to know). Management isn't great about responding to maintenance issues and/or providing notice ahead of things like inspections.
Advice to the owners
Take appropriate steps to prevent mice.
win some lose some
Pros
Wide, clean stairwell areas. Super responsive to calls and kind. Communicative about building-wide concerns, ie giving heads up when water needed to be shut off for servicing. Nice layouts.
Cons
Difficult to take advantage of once-per-month exterminator / work around their schedule. Pest control challenging - dealt with cockroaches and mice in 2020-2021.
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