The Brooklyn Grove, 10 Nevins Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 10 Nevins Street by Carter Horsley

This very attractive, grey-brick, 27-story building with distinctive fenestration at 10 Nevins Street in Downtown Brooklyn was completed in the Spring of 2019 and has 184 condominium apartments. 

It is known as The Brooklyn Grove and was developed by Adam America Real Estate,  the Slate Property Group and Vanke.  The developers, who are also building 251 First Street in Park Slope, paid $47.5 million to a previous developer of the site. 

It was designed by ODA New York. 

It has ground-floor retail space. 

It is across from the Nevins Street subway station and is convenient to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Barclays Center. 

Bottom Line

This attractive, well-located condominium apartment tower with distinctive fenestration in Downtown Brooklyn has 184 units across from a subway station and convenient to the Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Description

The L-shaped tower, which has a full-height wing on Livingston Street, has two setbacks above the 7th floor. 

The main, grey-brick street façades are divided into two-story window frames that appear to float in narrow, angled spaces that are separated by thin incisions.  The top three stories are similar in treatment except that their window frames are three-stories high. 

The double-height lobby has tall wood and marble vertical accents and a fireplace. 

The entrance has a thin, curved marquee with a revolving door. 

Amenities

It has a concierge, a roof deck, a 40-foot-long swimming pool, a fitness center, a pet spa, a party room, a garage, a children's playroom with off-center pointed arches, a bicycle room, sidewalk landscaping, a laundry room and a package room.

Apartments

Apartments have double-glazed windows and kitchens have Caesarstone countertops, oak cabinetry with antique brass hardware. 

Apartment 23I is a three-bedroom unit with 1,582 square feet of interior space and 151 square feet of external space with an entry foyer that leads in one direction to its terrace and in the other to a hall to its open kitchen with a breakfast bar and a 23-foot-long living/dining room and the bedrooms. 

Apartment 1205 is a corner, two-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads past a open kitchen and a large living/dining room with a wide, angled window wall. 

Apartment 23C is a two-bedroom unit with 1,164 square feet with a 20-foot-long living/dining room and an open kitchen with a breakfast bar. 

Apartment 17A is a two-bedroom unit with 1,161 square feet and an entry foyer next to the open kitchen with a breakfast bar and the 19-foot-long living/dining room. 

Apartment 16J is a one-bedroom unit with 802 square feet and an entrance into a 11-foot-long alcove near the open kitchen with a breakfast bar and the 16-foot-long living/dining room.  It has 7.5-inch-wide Ashland Oak plank floors.