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June 27, 2007
The Importance of Tipping Brownstoner
In a couple of comments threads yesterday, amidst much troll-like behavior, someone complained that we focus too much on Clinton Hill. As another commenter replied, there are a couple of good reasons for that: The neighborhood's incredible architectural stock and the rapid socioeconomic changes it's undergoing. The third obvious reason is that it's where we live so we're that much more likely to notice a new development site or have someone pass along news to us on the street. That said, we would LOVE to be posting more on-the-ground stuff about other neighborhoods, but the only way that's going to happen is if readers send us tips and photos. Bottom line: Instead of grousing about how your home turf doesn't get enough virtual ink, grab the bull by the horns and send story ideas to us at brownstoner@brownstoner.com.
Mr. B
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I read that title and thought you were asking for money tips LOL!
Posted by: guest at June 27, 2007 10:15 AM
Thats becasue Clinton Hill is the BEST!!! :)
Posted by: ClintonHillLover at June 27, 2007 10:25 AM
Here's one... any idea what's going on at 346 and 348 Sackett St. (b/t court and smith)? They have been vacant for over a year and recently put up scaffolding and started gutting them. According to propertyshark, they are both owned by the same company.
Posted by: cger at June 27, 2007 10:29 AM
what i would love to see is links to old articles or other info discussing areas that are now considered prime areas, (e.g. park slope, fort greene) that illustrate how they were viewed when they were less popular. I apologize if this has been done already. Many posters talk about how people used to talk about FG, PS the way they talk about BS now. i'm new to bk so it's hard to conceive of time when PS was not "the place to be" so to speak. I would love to see examples of that.
Posted by: new to bk at June 27, 2007 10:29 AM
10:29, I remember when Brooklyn Heights was not "the place to be" back in the 70s, and then it was considered bad to cross Atlantic to the south...everything changes
Posted by: anon at June 27, 2007 10:37 AM
What is up with the storefront at Dean and Nevins? I would be interested to know about that.
Posted by: anon at June 27, 2007 10:42 AM
Sutton Place was once a Skid Row...things change...
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 10:45 AM
I'd like to see more coverage of Brooklyn south of Prospect Park.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 10:50 AM
This feedback is good, but if you really want to know what's up with the storefront on Dean and Nevins or the property on Sackett, the best chance of it getting posted about is if you were to snap a photo of it on your way home from work and email it to us.
Posted by: Brownstoner at June 27, 2007 10:54 AM
346-348 will be 8 unit new building.
And a towering 55' tall. Would not be ok according to all the petition signers.
Of course the big pending issue in the area is the sale of the LICH bldg former Longshoreman bldg on Court St.
That is where I think they fear taller structure - as of right - of maybe 12 story.
Posted by: petebklyn at June 27, 2007 10:56 AM
anyone check out the house at 385 lewis?
http://www.prudentialelliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=853745&rentalperiod=&SearchType=houses
Posted by: anyone? at June 27, 2007 11:10 AM
holy crap .. full townhouses are getting cheap in bed-stuy ..
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 11:46 AM
$2500 square feet, three stories, and a ways into Bed Stuy? $650k is cheap?
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 12:12 PM
isn't that house in the Stuy Heights landmarked district
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 12:21 PM
Know what'd be cool? A biweekly feature called "The Cheapest House in Brooklyn," featuring...whatever house (not co-op or condo) that could be found through reasonably open channels at, yes, the lowest asking price in the boro (excluding foreclosure auctions). This would shut up the crowd that crows that "there's nothing decent under a million-three" or whatever, along with the crowd that wants to puke when people say things like that. It would also introduce people to strange distant planets, like Canarsie. Unless, that is, there's nothing decent under a million-three in Canarsie, which would itself be instructional.
Hey, do tippers get tips? [extending subtle gesture towards tip can on counter]
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at June 27, 2007 12:22 PM
how is this a ways into bed stuy?
Posted by: stumped in FG at June 27, 2007 12:34 PM
Every time I tip you off, you already know about it... but anyway, the stop-work order has been lifted on the long-vacant storefront being renovated nicely on the corner of Myrtle and Washington in ... Clinton Hill! And work has resumed. Please let it be a high-quality bodgea with flowers...
And keep covering CH, please.
Posted by: bob999 at June 27, 2007 2:13 PM
and by CH, Bob - you mean Cobble Hill and Crown Heights I'm sure.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 2:47 PM
Wow Stoner.
Inspiration.
Great idea.
I supplied the lemons.
And you made sweetened lemonade. Brilliant!
Thank you for my new name - "Troll-Like."
Posted by: Troll-Like at June 27, 2007 4:31 PM
Brenda from Flatbush...I would like to see an "Affordable" mention. Co-op, Condo & House. I can't believe that you think this is just a "crowd that crows."
There is a very real problem in finding affordable housing in all the common neighborhoods mentioned on this blog (BH, CH1, CH2, CH3, CG, PS, PH, FlatB, FG).
I don't understand the notion that to find good affordable real estate requires "Pioneering" a neighborhood.
And when, after this city administration has allowed for the massive development to occur, is anyone going to address the issues of Transporting & Schooling the residents of all these communities.
Tribeca is a terrific example (albeit, not an affordable one) of development explosion and not enough classrooms to educate those privledged little children. The Developers are making money hand over fist and not accounting for long-term sustainability.
Posted by: Wade T at June 27, 2007 4:55 PM
Thank you "walk in Brooklyn"! Far too many here seem to treat the borough like it was mostly empty with just some hoodlums wandering the streets when they got here. Instead of being a city of nearly 3 million people with housing that non-Wall St. folks could actually afford to buy and raise families in.
Posted by: big al at June 27, 2007 6:09 PM
Brownstoner can grow and get fancy but should stay rooted in Clinton Hill.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 8:09 PM
Last I saw, there were no Brownstones in Canarsie. I do know of Limestones on Farragut and one or two of the original Victorian woodframe homes still exist albeit in a remuddled state. What significance would Canarsie's collection of Late 60's Fedders have to do with a Brownstoner site? I know that the "Waxman Splits" in Seaview villiage have a history that I would much rather forget. My parents a school teacher and a cop went to look at a model home in the late 1960's and were told by Mr. Waxman himself that they could not buy there because they were Black. My dad, a Viet Nam war vet was disappointed and they purchased my aunt's home from her on Washington Park and then an investment property on Garfield Place. My parents gave me both homes when they retired. I won't tell you what I sold those houses for! Needless to say I made out great! Thank you Mr. Waxman for forcing us to keep our Black asses in the ghetto!
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 8:52 PM
to big al, 6:09pm:
As
(a) someone who spent the first 20+ years of his life living in a mostly empty neighborhood with just some hoodlums walking the street (waterfront Sunset Park baby $), and
(b) a now Wall Street folk who, believe it or not, cannot even come close to paying some of the exorbitant prices people demand for housing in Brownstoner Brooklyn,
I must respond to your comment. I lived in a place where I didn't want to live in, because, to be simple about it, my family and I couldn't afford to live anyplace else. I, and I imagine a lot of other people like me, think that way for a pretty good reason. Because, except for a certain few privileged places, that's pretty much what Brooklyn is. Don't get me wrong, I love my borough and my home, but let's not try and inflate it beyond what it is.
On a side note, I would love to see what kinda places would be considered "affordable" in this area. There's a major skew between what, say, an actual brownstoner would consider "affordable", and what I think a lotta people would consider as "affordable", but I would love to be proven wrong
Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2007 10:53 PM
Brenda stay in Flatbush
Posted by: stonersquad at June 28, 2007 7:04 AM
Dear Mr./Ms. B,
I am NOT complaining, because you all do cover my nabe (Crown Heights) from time to time. BUT, you apparently havechosen not to list thecrownheightser.blogspot.com among your Brooklyn blogs. My question is: why?
Posted by: Crown Heights Brother at June 28, 2007 4:26 PM
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