Rental of the Day: 579 Ralph Avenue
A classic bay-fronted circa-1900 Renaissance Revival two-family is up for rent in Ocean Hill — the whole thing. Right on the border of Crown Heights, the sprawling four- or five-bedroom house has lots of original details and freshly renovated baths and kitchens — two, in fact. With 2.5 bathrooms and just over 3,000 square feet, it seems like…
A classic bay-fronted circa-1900 Renaissance Revival two-family is up for rent in Ocean Hill — the whole thing. Right on the border of Crown Heights, the sprawling four- or five-bedroom house has lots of original details and freshly renovated baths and kitchens — two, in fact.
With 2.5 bathrooms and just over 3,000 square feet, it seems like more than enough room for a group of roommates or a big family. There’s laundry in the basement and a nice big garden too. The 3 and 4 trains at Utica are three and a half blocks away. Do you think $3,850 a month makes sense?
579 Ralph Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP
Small Minds Think A like!
There was a time when people called Fort Greene unsafe.
This is the areas where people can afford to purchase brownstones.
There are beautiful big homes for $600 and more in these areas.
Ocean Hill is rapidly increasing daily.
The quietly growing neighborhoods are from Ralph Avenue to Eastern Parkway between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street. If you really want nice check around Marion Street.
Sometime it is best to let a sleeping dog sleep.
But the conversation is only one sided and that is the safe side. (hint, hint)
In the meantime these neighborhoods are on fire with investors buying and when the sleeping dogs awake those are the neighborhoods where they most go to afford the rentals they can no longer afford in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, & Bed Stuy.
Small Minds Think A like!
There was a time when people called Fort Greene unsafe.
This is the areas where people can afford to purchase brownstones.
There are beautiful big homes for $600 and more in these areas.
Ocean Hill is rapidly increasing daily.
The quietly growing neighborhoods are from Ralph Avenue to Eastern Parkway between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street. If you really want nice check around Marion Avenue.
Sometime it is best to let a sleeping dog sleep.
But the conversation is only one sided and that is the safe side. (hint, hint)
I know it’s not terribly safe around there, but I still remember growing up very close to this particular house. I lived on south side of EP, right where EP meets Pitkin Ave. Aside from the horrible job they did with the roadway change and that large patch of weeds and overgrown brambles they planted there, my old block really does not that much different. They even built a new motel/hotel there.
Right across from this house, there used to be a kosher deli (corner of Ralph and Lincoln Pl),, there was a drugstore on the corner of EP and Ralph, also a barber shop, a florist, etc. I would love to see the neighborhood start to come back.
Give me a break regarding Brownsville becoming a hipster mecca! A friend’s husband has a business that installs surveillance equipment in buildings, and he has done extensive work in Brownsville, the stories he told on a daily basis were surreal. The footage from the cameras he has installed has been used in numerous court cases and he has become somewhat of an expert witness to the point when cops stopped him for speeding and ran his license, they were like “Thank you for your service to NYPD sir, please just drive carefully.” I am truly puzzled by people wanting to live in these areas as opposed to other areas maybe considered to be a bit “sleepy” but at least safe. And, in regards to no one wanting to live in Coney Island, sure, not in the Coney Island proper, you gotta be out of your mind to live there, but Trump Village is awesome and in terms of the quality of life, it has a great combination of good schools, stores, services and for the nightlife-do yourself a favor and go out to a Russian restaurant, the one that has music and a show and you would see what partying really is all about-anything else is lame compared to endless food, endless vodka, club atmosphere and everyone dressed to the nines. I know because I have taken many American friends there and they were all holy crap, how do you guys pull it off?
“this is basically brownsville. is it safe around here?”
“We were not impressed. Nor, did we feel it is safe.”
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Is It Safe? – Marathon Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw1_2b-I7A
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The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Apparently, this area is considered to be more desirable than the rentals in the Trump Village. Ocean Hill-you have to be kidding me, this is a total hood! I am really puzzled by the hipsters and yuppies desire to rather live in these areas and pay close to 4K for this location when the Trump Village has 3 bedrooms for about 1K a piece and the location of the buildings is really not the Coney Island where the projects are, quite the opposite, the TV is very safe, has amazing amenities inside the bldgs. and nearby, yet, it is somehow, less desirable than Bed Stuy, Bushwick, East Burg, and now, lo and behold, Brownsville is the next frontier of hipness.
There were zero murders in NYC in the last 10 days. Our violent crime rate is starting to resemble a small town in mid-west.
And no one wants to live in Coney Island. At least with this location you’re not that far from other parts of Brooklyn with more amenities.