Last Week's Biggest Sales
1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $2,700,000 38 Cranberry Street GMAP (left) 2,344-sf townhouse one block from the Promenade. According to StreetEasy, the house was last listed in 2006 for $2,999,000. 2. MIDWOOD/NOTTINGHAM $1,905,500 1350 East 27th Street GMAP (right) Detached 2,200-sf house with garage. Built circa 1910, according to Property Shark. 3. CLINTON HILL $1,685,000 224 Washington…
1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $2,700,000
38 Cranberry Street GMAP (left)
2,344-sf townhouse one block from the Promenade. According to StreetEasy, the house was last listed in 2006 for $2,999,000.
2. MIDWOOD/NOTTINGHAM $1,905,500
1350 East 27th Street GMAP (right)
Detached 2,200-sf house with garage. Built circa 1910, according to Property Shark.
3. CLINTON HILL $1,685,000
224 Washington Avenue GMAP
3,500-sf brownstone with lots of original details. Asking $1,795,000. when featured as a House of the Day last August, then cut to $1,685,000.
4. MANHATTAN BEACH $1,600,000
614 Hampton Avenue GMAP
2,372-sf house with garage on a 6,000-sf lot. One-family built circa 1950.
5. DUMBO $1,500,000
70 Washington Street GMAP
Sale was of unit 6O in Dumbo condo.
Photos from Property Shark.
“low crime given the population density, proximity to housing projects.”
You can not selectively remove Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens or Park Slope from their respective precincts.
“and the fact that we are smack dab in the middle of the largest city in the country.”
Flatbush would be smack dab in the middle of Brooklyn.
The lowest crime rates in Brooklyn are in the southern part of Brooklyn and not in the aforementioned neighborhoods. That would be the 61, 60, 62, etc.. Midwood, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, etc…
Hmm. Looks like price decrease to me both for what was sold and still hasn’t. Seems to me all the shitheads a few months ago claiming BUY BUY BUY have gone away.
They don’t 4:57.
Brooklyn Heights has the second lowest crime rate of any precinct in the ENTIRE city. Mostly attached homes there.
Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill all have extremely low crime given the population density, proximity to housing projects and the fact that we are smack dab in the middle of the largest city in the country.
So again,
Why are the crime rates, in particular, burglary, lower in the areas of Brooklyn that have more detached homes?
The crime rate in my neighborhood does not correlate to whether somebody will break into my house via my backyard. They don’t because it’s incredibly hard to access. They’d have to break into a building and then instead of just going into an apartment, they’d have to decide to go up to the roof, (many of the buildings have fire alarm roof doors), cross various buildings (the house on one side of me is 1 story lower so they can only come from one side), then they’d have to climb down the firescape and release it to get to the garden. Why would they bother doing this as opposed to just entering an apartment once in the first building or from the fire escape? If they do use the fire escape, wouldn’t they first try the top floors? My apartment is the hardest to get to using that route because the fire escape doesn’t come all the way down unless you release the ladder part and it’s pretty scary climbing down that ladder as it swings back and forth.
The other route would be to hop the garden fences – how many of those will they do to get to my house? Why hop a few garden fences before breaking into an apartment?
My neighbors also don’t bother locking their doors either for the same reason. It’s a great feeling, a safety oasis in the middle of the city. A feeling you cannot get in a detached house because anybody can easily access your backyard.
Funny Brooklyn Native, it is precisely the areas of Brooklyn that have an abundance of detatched homes that have the lowest crime rates in the borough. So I wouldn’t put much credence in correlating crime rates to whether homes are detached or not. Now if you don’t like Midwood that’s fine but the area does not suck. BTW, lock you back door and make sure the entry to your home via the roof is secured. Row homes can be easily accessed by walking from roof to roof.
I’ve lived in both attached and detached houses. I much prefer the attached – for two reasons. One is you have an incredibly safe backyard in attached houses. I haven’t locked my back door in years as I know the neighbors all around me. Second, there is a much greater density of people living in places like Park Slope than Midwood. That means there is more street life, restaurants etc. Midwood sucks big time, I know, I grew up there. There is nothing to do there, other than walking to temple on Saturdays.
Yes, many Jewish families purchase these homes, as well as the large homes near their temples in Ditmas Park but Midwood and Gravesend in particular are also attractive to many non-Jews who don’t necessarily want to move to the suburbs because they have businesses and families in Brooklyn. Asian, Russian, Italian and latley Arab families with money pay a premium to live in those neighborhoods too. Brownstoners have to remember that not everyone lives a life that revolves around Park Slope or a commute to Manhattan by train. There is a whole side of Brooklyn that serves people whose incomes are comparable to Brownstoners, if not even more stable, with wonderful shops, restaurants and both good public and private schools.
“Simiarly, some people would be stunned by a willingness to pay $2 million+ for a rowhouse with dark rooms, a tiny yard, and no parking.”
Or for a 1000 sf glass enclosed box with paper walls and NO yard and NO parking in Manhattan…?
or for a studio in London…?
or for a 1 bedroom in Hong Kong…?
2 million for a whole house sounds great to me!