From The Archives: One Year Ago

Great thread on 202 15th Street/ Very Reminiscent of common price and neighborhood bashing that takes place on current HOTD's.

BTW - For all the "No way this place is worth anywhere near that" comments - House sold 2 months later in March 2007 for asking.

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 4:52 PM

pre-credit crunch and in the height of the bubble hype.

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 6:22 PM

So interesting to read the old threads. I think that house on 15th Street was very cute, loads of potential, and not every house has to be huge! Especially when people are now finally thinking about trying to waste less resources in this country, like not trying to heat some massive McMansion they don't really need.

I found the old neighborhood vs. neighborhood spat on that thread funny to read. It made me review everything we thought about when buying, and why we chose the neighborhood we did. We bought in Lefferts Manor a couple years ago. We spent less than this 15th Street house was listed for. Amenities in PLG are still not ideal, but there is a big new supermarket on Bedford in Lefferts Manor, and there are fun things off the beaten track. We found amazing West Indies Vegetarian take-out restaurants that I can promise you people, you've never tasted anything like it. Who says Vegan has to be bland? Not these places! The owner of Enduro is going to open another restaurant and is doing quite well. A sushi place opened. There's a wine store coming, they're waiting for the liquor license. And the "scene" people talked about in that thread has been growing. The subway transportation is just a blessing. After having easy access to the B/Q if I had to take the R every day again I'd be so depressed. As for the nearby low income people that scare some, I went out shopping at the Duane Reade on Bedford in Crown Heights today and had the nicest exchanges with some fellow shoppers there. They're just people. Never forget that. If you do forget it, you lose your soul. And your SOUL, too, baby. Peace out.

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 7:30 PM

so glad you like your neighborhood 7:30. That has what to do with the old threads?

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 8:13 PM

8:13,

Why don't you go read an old thread, specifically the So. Slope HOTD, before you ask a question that is idiotic to anyone else that bothered to actually READ/REVIEW the old threads.

Posted by: guest at January 3, 2008 9:35 PM

interesting to read that an adjacent house (196 15th street) was listed at $925k and sold for only $650k.

Posted by: guest at January 4, 2008 8:05 AM

9:35 - I did read it, dont see anything discussing the merits of PLG and the why people love it so much.

Posted by: guest at January 4, 2008 8:32 AM

You are lying through your teeth, 8:32 just to be spiteful and mean. Which is typical of the neighborhood bashers on Brownstoner. There is a clear and lengthy discussion about PLG on the old thread about the HOTD in South Slope on 15th Street.

Posted by: guest at January 4, 2008 2:31 PM

Spiteful, indeed. It takes a pathetically insecure person to bash (back-handed or otherwise), someone elses pleasure with their home and it's location. You may think it makes you look better, but in reality you just look petty and ignorant.

Better yourself by working from the inside- out and you'll be far less jealous of other's happiness.

Posted by: guest at January 4, 2008 2:45 PM

8:05, 196 15th street is being gut renovated. (You could see the sky where the roof was at one point during the renovation.) So, the condition of the two houses was very different. Also, 196 15th had no extension (they are building one now).

Posted by: guest at January 29, 2008 8:58 PM