What recession? Via Curbed: “… screenwriter Todd A. Kessler, a former Sopranos scribe … appears to be the buyer of a 4BR, 3BA condo at 162 St. Marks Avenue in Prospect Heights.”
“… The apartment, in a 22′-wide brownstone that turned condo in 2007, was asking only $1.679 million when it hit the market at the end of September. Kessler just paid for the apartment: $2,005,000, or 19.4 percent over the asking price.”
Read more: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/02/01/screenwriter_pays_2_million_for_prospect_heights_condo.php