How about this home/studio in Jersey City

Is it the basement unit? Why is the master bedroom so huge? It could be divided into one or two more rooms. The kitchen is huge but the living room space is not.

I like the look but not the décor. I would not like to live at street level. The views from the roof are nice.

$2000+ monthly property taxes is nuts.

Brrr. Where do they always find this ugly 50's furniture?

It does look like a former business suite.

No parking, and clearly that rooftop deck is an amenity shared with other residents of the building.

With that many windows and a deck, it seems unlikely to be a basement space.

Its a semi basement and that is a flood zone. Are you people dumb?

It's semi-basement... all the windows are barred and when you look at the photos of the exterior, only barred windows on that level.

So damp, barely fitted out, and as aptly observed prone to flooding. Add in sea level rise and you'll be selling at a discount, if you don't drown first.

No, just no. It looks like a tarted up warehouse.

Welcome to Jersey r2. The state has the highest property taxes in the country.

This 1928 building was originally the Ukrainian Free Press . Zillow doesn't know that the Port Authority abandoned the name Freedom Tower. It's now One World Trade Center.

Its serviceable lodging for students or poor immigrant families. The price is a big joke.

I know that place. It is a few blocks from me. Drab and industrial looking on the outside. Basement (or ground level) is a No. When I first moved to Paulus Hook, I lived in a older, ground floor condo. Big mistake!! Now, I live in a newer highrise on Greene. Much better quality of life.

[quote]It looks like a tarted up warehouse.

Doesn't that pretty much describe a lot of Jersey City?

Than you r7, I did not realize that.

The only thing I see that I like is that humongous refrigerator setup. Actually it looks like 2 huge refrigerators with double freezer drawers side by side. The stove, while beautiful, looks very lonely in that spot. Plus it looks like you'd be in trouble if you had a bad back trying to cook on that thing. It's so much lower than the countertops. It needs to be replaced by a huge Viking restaurant stove to fill up that entire space.

R14: No. You posted Dixon Mills on Columbus Dr. (which is newly renovated/modern inside). Everything on Columbus Dr. from DM to Grove St to Paulus Hook is modern/upscale.

There are very nice brownstones on the smaller streets and by the parks, but prices are insane - if they are even for sale. Better to rent an apt in one or just move to NYC.

Nothing says class like exposed ductwork, or is that the diverted Canadian pipeline?

Still a better deal than buying property in NY r18.

Buying anything in a flood zone seems a bad deal.

This resembles the decor that Thomas Pynchon described as "Early Homosexual".

A million dollars to live in a basement. No. Just no.

That property is on the original “hook” of land for which the neighborhood (Paulus Hook) is named. It’s not a flood risk.

thank you R24

I love the space, I like the industrial look at that it's such a huge blank slate to work with. What I do not love is what everyone else doesn't love: that it's on the ground floor or basement. There's nothing you can do that will make you forget you're living in a basement with bars on the windows.

Not directly related but it always amuses me how some NYers are weirdly snobbish about living in Jersey even though the PATH trip into the city is often shorter and more convenient than the outer boroughs or upper Manhattan.