Gravesend Sales Price Falls Just Short of Brooklyn Record
Anyone who read the recent Times Magazine article about the incredibly close-knit and financially successful community of Syrian Jews in Gravesend may not be all that surprised to learn that one of its business leaders just sold his 7,526-square-foot house for $10 million. The seller was Joseph Cayre, founder of Midtown Equities and a former…
Anyone who read the recent Times Magazine article about the incredibly close-knit and financially successful community of Syrian Jews in Gravesend may not be all that surprised to learn that one of its business leaders just sold his 7,526-square-foot house for $10 million. The seller was Joseph Cayre, founder of Midtown Equities and a former Latin music producer; the buyer was an LLC. While the $10 million number falls short of the $10.75 million paid for 140 Columbia Heights, it continues a trend of sky-high prices in the South Brooklyn neighborhood: Five out of the nine highest sales prices ever recorded in Brooklyn have been in Gravesend.
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I am sure joe cayre will not mind you are not jewish ’cause he’s just not a racist..
Lol ..your guys are so funny sometimes..
I forgot to mention that this guy is loaded i mean really…10m$ is like 100k for most people for him…Freedom tower is one of his investments and he kept it even after Sept 11 happened
What an honour for Americans to have him I have to say … Racism is the least of his concern leaving in Brooklyn as a matter of fact i think they are developing a 2.5bln$ project in Midtown Miami…where diversity is the rule cubans hispanics,europeans…where they have beautiful ideas to help the city thrive
People can live wherever they want and buy whatever they want at the price they want …that is America…freedom of choice as long as you obey the rules of the country,,,,
And You will find that mature jewish boys always follow the rules cause they re scared of what their mother would say….and scared of god. You need to know boundaries in order to evolve properly
I think some of you should learn from good religious people jews,christian or muslim for the matter…we all live together even if it is a few block away brooklyn has jews neighborhood, arabs, blacks …i d say not so many WASP but they re coming…
It s true that the price is high..but not that high
It s true that SY jews like living in communities …but no more that connecticut WASP or yuppies from manhattan
Jews like living in communities in NJ too…SY have one in englewood i think too
After what happened in WWII Jews have been found to try to preserve what they have and kept that through generations that is why they take care of their surroundings have a clean neighbourhood where they can live SAFELY ..can you blame them? Anybody here to deny the holocaust?
I am a jew from France and I felt very offended by the above blog and comments..I am trying to see what I am going to do to resolve this frustration …
Hell yeah the guy made money on his house and he sold it for 10m$ ….If you don’t like it go live in Russia or CHina….
Oh sorry both of there countries already acknowledge that property should be valued according to markets offer and demand ruling…
I guess ur stuck with Cuba or Venezuela…oops heard castro isnt doing that well
no one here is actually paying attention to the house itself. It’s not just the building on Bedford Avenue– it also includes what must be landscaped/yard land made up of two lots behind it on East 24th street. This helps explain the price.
The neighborhood is filled with some beautiful old houses from the 20’s and 30’s, many renovated as well as many tastefully (if sometimes too elaborately) new homes built on regular 100 by 40 or 60 lots. And there are lots of old shade trees.
The majority of comments on this board are entirely without merit. Anyone can buy a house anywhere they want so long as they can AFFORD it. BTW the buyer is not syrian so he is not going to a sephardic synagogue making most of the downright nasty assumptions all FALSE. Syrians are not any more racist then Starbucks is for not having one in lower income neighborhoods.
i agree with you, it is not fair that her own family will not talk to her, i think they should, but that is a family affair. on the other hand to be accepted back into the community is a different story, the community doesn’t need to take her or you back, (i’m sorry to sound harsh)she decided to break away from a set of standards enforced by a community (whether they are right or wrong is a whole different story) but that is a decision and a risk she made, to go out there and have a different life, she has every right to do that, and the community has every right to do what it can to preserve its identity. i love many aspects of the community i was born into, and many aspects are selfish but after all good and bad always go hand in hand. if i or anyone else decide to do things that are not accepted by the community then that is something we choose to do and be willing to take the consequences. but i feel her pain, if my family disown me if i ever decide to intermarry i will be heart broken, but i wouldn’t care less if the community disown me because i believe they have the right to do that, if they don’t there will be no community, whether thats a bad thing or not is again a different story. even the Main rabbi’s sister of the community intermarried and was excommunicated but her family still has some contact with her, they still talk to her even if she is not part of the community, so again this is a family affair CAUSED and yes ENCOURAGED by community rules, but bottom line family affair!!! has she tried to talk to her family? not for the purpose of having them agree that what she did is OK, or even come to new year’s dinner! because if they are very religious they might not want to, which is a great shame. do they refuse to talk to her? that is unfair, but it is a family affair… because i know few people from the Syrian community who intermarried got rejected by the community but still keep in touch with their immediate family. i think it is great that you have such a diverse family but not everyone has to follow that lead, people and communities have the right to choose, whether we agree with it or not, as long as they are not going out there killing or harming people who don’t believe in their views. Except unfortunately in your mother’s case someone did get harmed! your and your mother’s emotions, but it is a family affair…
Ha, we totally made this brownstone chat a personal conversation….but hey whatever brownstoner has so much nonsense and trash talk anyways! at least someone might lean something about something from our Chat.
i hope your mother can mend her wounds with her family
pleasure chating with you Poster 11:41am.
you sound like a tolerant and a kind soul
I am probably the one person that read your post. I am the poster whose mother was turned away by her family because she married outside of the community. You are correct that many people try to preserve their culture once they have relocated to a country not their own. Culture means everything to many people. This is why American slave owners worked so hard to separate enslaved Africans from their culture during slavery. That said my family is now an amalgamation of many cultures Syrian Jew, Egyptian Muslim, African American Protestants and Latino Catholics. We all benefit from the convergence of cultures but can still celebrate the distinctions between them. My view is probably jaded because when I look at my mother I can see the hurt in her eyes caused by an actual racist edict enacted prior to her birth. To once again embrace her still living brothers and sisters, whom I have neer knowingly laid eyes on, she would have to deny her own children and grandchildren. This can not be justified by brushing it off as merely trying to preserve a culture.
oh and for the record, not all of us are super rich, many SY’s (Syrian Jews) are very average some are even poor, but what is great is that the rich ones always make sure no one from their community starves, in a sense they take care of their extended family, whatever you want to make of it…haha
Forgive me for the long comment, but the record needs to be set straight. no one is probably gonna read this, but here it goes anyways haha
Alot of racist talk on this site that makes me very sad, i’m a Syrian Jew myself actually was born and raised in Syria before i came here, some like to call us BOAT, BANANA BOAT…whatever it is all in good humor as long as you are not being vicious about it. i’m not religious, but i definitely value and i’m proud of where i come from, i do think the community is very closed in and very into themselves something i personally couldn’t live with, BUT if it wasn’t for that what identity or pride or heritage will i have retained… i don’t know. many of you on this site must come from different countries and backgrounds, then you must know when you come to a new country where you don’t know anyone you are afraid and lost, so people look for familiar faces, culture, language, it makes them feel safe, so they form communities and try to preserve them to keep their identity. People have the right to live the way they want, i didn’t want to live the way my community lived, but do i think they are wrong to want to preserve their identity? isn’t that what have been going on for as long in history as we all know? the Jews, the Christians, the Moslems, chinese, Arabs, Russians, Italians, etc, don’t they all try to preserve their identity? and don’t alot of them look down upon intermarriage? but within each race or religion some communities and families reinforce it more than others, some are more open minded, both have the right to do what they wish. So when a non jew asks for a woman hand in marriage from her father and he refuses, it is not because he is not worthy…he might be the most wonderful man in the world, and even greatly loved and respected by her family, but the father’s sense of duty to sustain and continue the heritage might lead him to refuse, another father might not have that same sense of duty… both are right to practice what they wish. as backward of a practice as it might seem i have to say i’m glad there is people out there that still try to preserve their Heritage, Jews, Christians, Moslems, chinese, Arabs, Russians, Italians, etc. what would happen years from now if everyone marries everyone? we will all look the same, talk the same and what place will history take then? will that be too bad? maybe not, maybe there will be much less wars waged and less hate crimes, but that is not how life is, so lets just all “LIVE AND LET LIVE” let people practice what they believe as long as they are not harming anyone.
to the one person who possibly read this, thank you for listening to my ranting…LOL
sincerely yours,
a Hopeless Romantic