In the market for an uptown fixer-upper with good bones and an affordable price tag? Check out this $379,000 one-bedroom co-op at 50 Park Terrace East in Inwood, which has lots going for it, according to Joe Eisner of Eisner Design, an architecture firm with offices in Manhattan and East Hampton.
“It’s large,” he says of the 775-square-foot apartment. “It’s got reasonably high ceilings. It’s prewar, so they’re probably nine-foot-plus. They make the place feel less boxy.”
And “it looks like it’s in good construction shape,” he says. “The walls look really clean. It’s an easy space to do work on.”
However, the layout is odd, he says, noting that you enter directly into the kitchen.
“There’s no real sense of arrival like you’d get with a foyer. It’s a strange, bad use of space,” he says.
Eisner has a lot of ideas as to how he’d fix up this apartment if given the chance…