House of the Day: 624 East 19th Street

I live on this block and it is great, tree-lined quiet with beautiful home and great neighbors. Mostly professional people with families. It's between Foster and Glenwood, so 3 blocks form the B & Q trains. There have been recent sales in the 1.3 range on the block but those houses were beautifully updated with new kitchens and baths. This house is not it the same league, and some kind of strange masonry was recently done to the porch that doesn't present well. IMO the house would be a great buy for 999K. It has been previously listed for 1.3 but they came down in asking price, with no takers I guess.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 1:45 PM

Very nice block in the soon to be landmarked sub-neighborhood of Midwood Park. House is between Foster and Glenwood and about 3 blocks from Express Stop at Newkirk Plaza. This one may be a house in from fairly busy Foster, but that should not be much liability. The houses in this area are generally in pretty good shape- mostly unmuddled by brickwork, etc... Walked by this one yesterday- and there are definite siding issues here. Not sure what it is, but it could be improved. In any case, its a really nice block, in a really nice neighborhood.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 1:48 PM

Why do people list with Century 21 and Filmore in these neighborhoods? They never get as much and the houses sit on the market for so long when you compare them with agents from Brooklyn Properties, Mary Kay and Corcoran. The national chains don't work for these niche markets.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 1:59 PM

It seems as though houses that are in great shape in this area go for quite a bit these days, usually ask, while real fixer-uppers linger for ages, and then the price is reduced...

There is a limited housing stock here. Famlilies frequently stay here for 30 plus years... If there's little else on the market, could go for more that it might seem worth. I'd say 1.1 is realistic.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 2:09 PM

It looks very shabby outside, zero curb appeal. The block is a hike to cortelyou rd (on the map, not so far, but when it is nothing but tree-lined streets it feels far). For the new richer buyers that come from the slope or elsewhere and need their 3 or 4 familiar local amenities such as hip coffee shop, co-op or quality fruit and veg store, up-market brunch place with garden, stuff for babies, (soon to be 6 or 7 then a dozen), anything further than (busy) ditmas ave is a hike.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 2:24 PM

Are you for real, 2:24? I don't live in this neighborhood, but I'm sure the folks who do are happy that miserable complainers won't be moving in next door.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 3:20 PM

(RE: 3:23PM)

Maybe a mix of ''ghetto," as you deemed it, and "suburbia," is actually a good thing. Everyone needs a little hood in their life, I mean, Park Slope still has Fourth Avenue! Plus, you know no one is getting shot up outside Connecticut Muffin, so I don't understand how Cortelyou Road is ghetto anyway. You're proving that sometimes it IS possible to be too ethnocentric.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 3:29 PM

Anon 2:24: There actually is a food co-op on cortelyou rd. It is moving across the street to where Associated was to take a larger space. There is also a new organic food store on stratford, I believe. 7th avenue it ain't, but at least get your facts straight...

Kensington gal: Sure, Newkirk is a tad shady but you're like the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 4:15 PM

"Anon 2:24: There actually is a food co-op on cortelyou rd. It is moving across the street to where Associated was to take a larger space. There is also a new organic food store on stratford, I believe. 7th avenue it ain't, but at least get your facts straight..."

You missed my point. WHAT I AM SAYING is this house is a HIKE to __cortelyou rd__. People with $1m plus cash-to-fix ready are not going to want to live down on newkirk, the walk to the semi-cool amenities - that I am very aware exist already there - is too long a walk when they can get a place two blocks closer if they wait a bit.

The walk to prospect park is far too long as well. Remember? prospect park? the reason many people are ok with moving from established hoods to ditmas?

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 4:54 PM

Kensington Gal -

You're posts always seem to put down Ditmas... Methinks so you can prop up the "poor relation" you call home.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 9:12 PM

I walk home from the Q stops at night quite often and no issue. Also - have never seen a drug dealer outside the Farm, although I am a regular, so I think you might have just had bad luck. Was very used to drug deals when I lived near Washington Square Park but have not seen it happening on Cortelyou. Finally - on the question of whether the neighborhood might become park slope, god I hope not.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 31, 2007 9:34 PM