Yawn...

I went to see two apartments this weekend in Crown Heights. They were both in the same building but one was a duplex and the other was a one bedroom. The apartments were beautiful but I wasn't crazy about the location. Down the block and across the street was the Albany Houses and directly out front of the building was a small park/playground area. On the one hand, there's no through traffic on the block. On the other hand, it's probably full of people at night, which I'm not so thrilled about with the projects being so close.  I'm not explaining the street properly, so here's a pic:

That's the street.  The building is the one in the middle on the top. 
hmmm it doesn't look like there's a roof deck...

The apartments were both beautiful. One brick wall, a small bedroom and largish living room/kitchen area. The duplex had a largish downstairs room, an extra bathroom and a small outside area in the air shaft. The one bedroom had a larger living room because it lacked stairs and an extra closet. I'll try to post a video of the 1BR if I can figure out how.

I would have absolutely loved these two condos except that the realtor was terrible! Granted she was covering for someone else and there were a lot of people at the open house, but she kept pointing out all the bad things about the place. Like, the terrible lack of closets, the difficulty of finding a spot for a TV in the duplex, and the ugliness and lack of light of the small out door space. It was weird. She also mentioned that there was something on the roof but didn't offer to show us. I saw a closet marked "Storage" in a common hallway and opened it briefly to find some luggage and such inside but she didn't mention anything about storage to us. You would think that if a place didn't have adequate closets, you'd make it a point to mention any additional storage space, but no.

I'm going to keep looking (if my realtor ever gets her act together!) but I did really like the place for a number of reasons. I want to check out the neighborhood more, check what my commute would be like, etc. Also, I'm not sure if I like it more than the place in Bed-Stuy that I liked.

On another note, I obviously wasn't able to run this morning, which sucks. I'm hoping that we get a few rain-free days this week so I can get back out there. I bought a really bad ass looking interval watch that I'm dying to try and I don't want to lose any progress I may have already made. (Yes, I know it's only been a week but still)

This weeks game plan: Set up more places to see this weekend. At least three runs. Get a hair cut and have a good chat with my stylist about highlights. Set a date to start driving lessons.