$300,000 Parking Spot For Sale In Brooklyn

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A spot in Brooklyn's hottest parking garage, the mural-covered, warehouse-chic Park Slope Garage Condominium at 841 Union St., went on the market last week for $300,000 — plus a $240 monthly service fee.

That's more than a 1,000 percent increase from the going rate for a space 30 years ago, when the garage first opened, according to its owner, Howard Pronsky.

"They were $29 [thousand] back then," Pronsky said by phone Tuesday. "But that was before houses were in the millions."

Although Pronsky still owns the building, he said he sold off the last of its parking spaces a few years ago. So any rectangles of cement that hit the market these days — such as spot No. 611 last week, and spot No. 5 last year — are actually resales. (Aka, neighbors selling off their spaces to other neighbors.)

"End your parking woes forever! No more circling looking for a space, no more parking tickets, no more shoveling out your car from a snowdrift," reads the new $300,000 listing, which is being handled by the Brown Harris Stevens real estate firm.

"Spaces at the condo garage are rarely available and have become a good investment," the listing says. Also: "The location is perfect, the car will be properly cared for, and the garage offers valet pick up and drop off service and hand car washing for an additional charge."

The real estate agent handling the sale, Jill Braver, told Patch that she's "not really in a position to comment" further.

The Park Slope Garage Condo is located on the same trendy block of Union Street as other neighborhood hotspots like the Park Slope Food Coop, Park Slope Yoga and Dixon's Bicycle Shop.

It has also seen its share of controversy over the years.

Last spring, local 4-year-old Jack Roberts, whose parents were parked at the garage, died tragically in a 50-foot plunge down the building's service elevator shaft.

Roberts was described as a towheaded "angel" who wanted to be a building contractor when he grew up. Neighbors left heaps of flowers on the sidewalk outside 841 Union St. last spring in his memory.

A review of city records following the little boy's death showed Pronsky and his management company had previously been fined for failing to fix elevator "defects" discovered years earlier.

Asked whether he could assure new parking-space owners that their garage's elevator woes had since been remedied, Pronsky said Tuesday: "I really don't want to talk about this."

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