House of the Day: Hawthorne Street Woodie
We aren’t intimately familiar with Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and this house looks okay to us, but we suspect that it is overpriced at $875,000 when compared to some of the more stately brownstones in the Lefferts Manor historic district that begins one block north of this place. So we’ve got a couple…
We aren’t intimately familiar with Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and this house looks okay to us, but we suspect that it is overpriced at $875,000 when compared to some of the more stately brownstones in the Lefferts Manor historic district that begins one block north of this place. So we’ve got a couple of questions: 1) What’s this block like? 2) Is this house indeed overpriced?
Hawthorne Street House [Foxtons] GMAP
Babs–I was only joking–we’ll always have Paris 🙂
Maybe Paris is OK to visit, but I was living there when this happened — I guess my NY radar was down at the time!
PLG Propaganda..PLG SUCKS
Re: Crime in PLG. The Lefferts Manor Assn. works diligently and closely with the 71st Pct, no less frequently than monthly, sharing info on crime in the area. I’ve been participating in this capacity for about ten years. Have never heard of anything close to the crimes detailed by Doug above. Not to say it couldn’t have happened.
There was a cat burglar on the loose a few years back, but, with residents working close with 71st Pct, perp was caught and is now serving a very long sentence.
Anytime there is a spike in crime, where innocents are targets, the community aggressively moblizes, in great numbers, and confronts the Pct.
This helped a formerly dangerous stretch of Flatbush Ave be designated as an “Impact Zone” by the NYPD, which involved placing a swarm of foot patrol officers in the area. Crime dropped, to the point where the Pct. reallocated resources to more dangerous areas in the Pct.
Yes, there are problems, but the community has blogs and yahoo listserves, that are active. Even rumors or crimes are quickly sent through this real and virtual grapevine. The Pct is informed, and the rumor, if false, is squashed. If it’s real, it is addressed relentlessly.
The quality of life trajectory in PLG has been a positive one over the past ten years.
The Lefferts Manor Assn has its finger on the pulse, as it relates to crime and quality of life.
It’s a constant battle, but one we’re willing to fight.
My two cents, for the record.
I don’t know how old you are, Bob, but I know you’ve been in the neighborhood for a long time, and appear to be its reigning patriarch – hence the title. 🙂 No harm intended!
Ed,
I guess we’ll never agree about everything, but I do love your “‘Grandpa of Lefferts Manor’ schtick” line, although I’m not quite THAT old. I even agree that there can be value to “a more agressive approach” in SOME venues, but it’s SO easy to keep upping the anti without accomplishing anything on the net, were there are no real-world conequences.
And Babs–I agree that Paris is much too dangerous to visit 🙂
p.s. – I’m pretty sure my conspiracy theory is right.
Bob, there’s nothing problematic to me about what I’m saying. I’m lumping all the sensationalistic accounts together, not the reasonable ones. I also think discussing motives for the troll behavior helps knock the wind out of them. It helps make sense of everything.
Now Bob, I’ve been very good at deferring to your “Grandpa of Lefferts Manor” schtick, because I understand your intentions to be good. But you must realize that there is value sometimes in a more agressive approach.
Helene’s comment reminded me of the one time I was victim of a crime — I had my purse snatched by a guy on a motorbike, in the middle of the day, one block off the Champs Elysees in Paris! So there you have it — Paris is obviously far more dangerous than PLG and no-one should ever go there!